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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY, AUGUST 31. 1918. astest Major League Game HAD HALL NOT MISSED THAT BALL WHERE WOULD TILDEN BE TODAY? Visiting Golfers Praise New Links of Engineers Club Jiy "IUSE." Veteran Put Out by Jap.

Kumagae Puts Out Veteran Beals C. Wright Murray Also Moves Ahead. f. i woods and cornfields less than a yeait ago is acclaimed by one and all ajl affording superb tests of golf we hav a right to be proud. Herbert Strong, our professional, has a knowledge of grass and soil that has made this gratifying development possible, and Long Island golfers, I am certain, cannot but be glad that another fine course has been added to the long string that has made the Island one of tho great golfing communities of the world.

"None of the visitors, many of whom had read The Eagle's description of the course before it was opened, believed that there had been any exaggeration of the charms of the links, especially in the matter of lauding the home green, which all agreed was in a class by itself as furnishing unique scenic and golfing features." IT IS a great pity that someone did not take exact note of the time of the game at the Polo Grounds yesterday when the New York Giaiitg beat the Brooklyn Superbas by 1 to 0. The time announced was fifty-seven minutes, but, as far as could be learned, that was a close approximation and not a guaranteed record. According to the clock on the fence In right field, if the game hpgan trrompGy at 3:30 p.m. it took 1 hour and 2 minutes. But just before play I utarted, Artie Fletcher was presented with a check for for having hit the I bull sign with a fly hit some weeks' ago, and the time required for the short presentation ceremonies was said to have come out of the 1 hour 2 minutes.

Nobody seems to have noticed the precise moment when play began, and the fifty-seven minutes announced in the morning papers was arrived at by guessing the presentation thing to have lasted five minutes, which period was deduced from the total of sixty-two minutes indicated by the clock. The pity of it is that the fifty-seven minutes, if it could be definitely established, would be a world's record for a major league game. The previous record In the books was an even hour for a game on June 2, 1882, In which Philadelphia beat Chicago, in the National League, by 11 to 0. That must 'have been an amazing contest, con-S Fletcher beat out a bunt to O'Mara, whose throw to first was wild, Doyle reaching third and Fletcher second. Zimmerman was purposely and properly walked.

Pete Compton singled to left, scoring Doyle, and, the clock showed 1 hour and 2 minutes, whlcn was more than the time in play, as explained elsewhere. Odds and Ends, Heinie Zimmerman was on third for the Giants yesterday because Eddie Sicking, the promising young in. field substitute, who was there on Thursday, had been called to the Army by his draft board. Ollie O'Mara, Brooklyn third base-man, is said to have Joined the Tietjen Lang shipyard team, which has a number of major leaguers on its roster. THE forty-eight members of nearby clubs overflowed with praise of the new Engineers links at Roslyn, after their testing of the course last Wednesday in a one-day tournament arranged by the Engineers Country Club, to acquaint members of neighboring clubs with the newly opened links.

Players came from Wheatley Hills, Nassau, North Hempstead, Great Neck and other Long Island clubs, while some came from as far away as Greenwich. This was the first tournament for outside players held on the links, which went Into commission only a few weeks ago. The tournament consisted of an eighteen-hole medal play handicap and a kickers handicap. In Class A the winner of the main handicap was L. E.

K. White of the home club, with 901179, and In Class Frank L. Stuart, Greenwich, with 10116 85. In Class W. B.

Young of Great Neck was first, with 11230 82, and Albert Date of the same club second, with 105 18 87. The kickers handicap was taken by John H. Love of North Hempstead, with 109 27 82. The gross prize went to Frank H. Hoyt of Siwanoy on a card of 84.

Mr. Hoyt was so taken I with the fine golfing tests afforded by the course that he said he was willing to bet almost anything that no amateur in the country could score the par of the course, 71. All the visitors were surprised to find the greens, which were corn fields last April, as fine as the greens at courses many years older, while the fairways, many of which were covered with trees last fall, gave only half a dozen bad lines in a full round, and this despite the long, dry spell and great heat of August, Club Official Enthusiastic-One of the most enthusiastic officials of the Engineers is Nat M. Gar land, long one of the golf high lights at the Marine and Field Club. Speaking of this first tournament of the Engineers, Mr.

Garland said today: "1 have been at many course openings, and I 6urely will not be ac cused of abnormal local pride if I say that never before have I seen visitors more taken with a new course than were the fine body of golfers who took part in our tournament. It was not exactly the opening of the links, but it was the first time we had had a tournament for outside players. "When a course that was wild AUTOMOBILE INSTRUCTION. AUTOMOBILE SCHOOL BEDFORD BHANCH Y. M.

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Snediker av, near Atlantic av R. R. station Telephone not yet connected. 31-2 A double-header at the Folo urounds this afternoon will give the Greater New York fans their last chance to see either the Superbas or Giants until the German retreat experts have led the German armies a long way back to the far side of Berlin from the Western front. The Superbas will be in Philadelphia on Labor Day, the Giants will be in Boston and the Boston Red Sox will play the New York Americans at the Polo Grounds on that holiday.

The Box Score. BROOKLYN. N'amff. AB Johnston, rf. 4 0 Olson.

bs 4 0 Daubert. lb. 3 0 Z.Wheat.If. 0 Myer.cf.... 3 0 O'Mara.

3 0 Poolan.2b... 3 0 SO BB PO A 10 10 0 0 0 16 1 0 0 12 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 12 1 0 0 0 1 1 Vv fT7 'j Bcals C. Wright. "killed" the next point, only to smash the next ball out, making the score 30 15 in favor of Hall. Each man was as nervous as-a rookie going before the Medical Board and even the spectators held their breath.

During a volley following the next service, Tilden made a difficult return from the back court. It was a high lob that just managed to reach the net; in fact, in crossing, the ball touched the net. Hall was there waiting for the ball. As it bounced In the air a little higher than Hall's head, the player made a swing with his racquet. Whether It was the sun or nervousness or excitement that caused Hall to miss the ball, no one can tell.

But he missed it clean as a whistle, and the bouncing ball went back over the net Into Tilden's court. Had he just touched tho ball, Hall would have won the point and possibly the game, match and set. Instead, the miss got Hall's goat and was the turning point in the match. To make matters worse, Tilden made a wonderful get of the next point and then by a kill at the net won the game at 4 2. From then on Tilden won as he pleased.

No matter what one may say of Tilden's actions on the court there is no getting away from the fact that he is sey City Baseball Park. At the call, Mister Wills appeared in all his glory; but where, oh! where, was Tham? One glance of his ebony grin were worth a thousand men (Iron), but, alas! no Tham appeared. Manager Driscoll was frantic and wild-eyed, but to no avail. Either Langford was lost in the maze of roads leading to Jersey (business of management stating that Tham had received explicit directions) or else perish the thought Tham ran out of a hard bout, swayed by fear or for some unknown cause not mentioned (business of Tham offering various alibis to the press) later. At any rate, the bout has been put off for two weeks and rain checks were handed out.

I sldering that twenty runs were crowded Into the sixty minutes. In the American League the record is 1 hour 8 minutes, made when Chicago beat the Athletics by 5 to 0, on August 29, 1015. A Record, But How Much? It Is almost a sure bet that the game at the Polo Grounds yesterday was a minute or so under 60 minutes and that it was a genuine record, but It will be difficult to establish it legally. The official scorer did not watch the clock for the start, but got his information from other sources. Another Near-Record, Another near-record was made yesterday when George Burns, playing for the Giants, caught nine flies and made no errors.

In the ninth inning Burs retired the side. Among other feats he made a circus, shoestring catch oft Coombs, first up in the ninth, and caught flies from Johnston and Olson, the next two men up. That stunt of an outfielder retiring all three men without a break was exceedingly unusual, even if it was not brand new. The record for outfield activity in a nine-inning game was established when Harry Bay of Cleveland caught 12 flies in a game against Bostort on July 19, 1904. Fred Clarke of Pittsburg caught ten flies in left in a game against St.

Louis on April 25, 1911. If memory does not play the writer false, Hi Myers once caught eight flies for Brooklyn in center in nine innings. Figures for Assists. While on the subject it may be well to mention that the record of assists from the outfield by one man in nine innings Is four. The outfielders who have made that mark are W.

Holmes of the Chicago Americans, in 1903; Fred Clarke of Pittsburg, in 1910, and Lee Magce, now of Cincinnati, then with the New York Americans, who had four assists in a game against the Philadelphia Athletics on June 1916. Another sidelight yesterday was that 14 of the 27 Superbas retired went out on fly balls. Nine of the Giants so died. That had much to do With the speed of the game. Daubert nnd Wheat Single.

It was one pretty game for the 3,000 or so spectators on a perfect after- Vnll PorHrf flllnwpd the HllDer- ha. twn hiis Thpv came in succes- sipmin th seventh inning, with two outi'" Daubert singled to right and Zack Wheat singled to right, Daubert taking third. On Ross Young's fumble Wheat took second, whereupon HI Myers was thrown out by Heinie Zimmerman. No other Superba reached first or nearly reached first. How Giants Won.

The only symptom of a run by the Giants before they scored in the ninth came in the sixth. Young opened with a single, but Doyle drove to second, where Olson made a nifty stop, touched second and threw to Daubert, completing a double play. Doyle opened the ninth with a single to right off Grandpa Jack Coombs. 10 12 0 0 0 110 0 13 3 SO BO FO A 0 0 9 0 0 0 110 1 0 0 12 0 0 0 13 0 110 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 11 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 10 110 2 3 27 10 1 a wonderful player. Also he Is never beaten until the final ball is served.

The victory he scored over Hall yesterday was the fourth he has registered in an important match by making a sensational uphill fight. A man who ts able to play In such a manner i is either full of nerve or he is so much better than anyone else that he is able to pull himself out of any hole. After the match Tilden was asked why he allowed Hall to get such a lead in the earlier games. "My plan of battle was all right," said Tilden. "I figured that Hall would play himself out and then I could win.

I was commencing to get going when the rain stopped the match on Thursday. Hall then was beginning to tire." Kumagae Has Too Many Styles. Judging by the game that Murray is playing, Tilden will have to fight for every point from the drop of the hat, providing the two players meet in the final game, on Tuesday. Playing excellent tennis, Murray moved ahead yesterday at the expense of Nathaniel W. Niles.

The scores were 7 5, 6 4, 2 6, 7 5. The other Important match of the day was the continuation of the Beals C. Wright-Ichiya Kumagae affair. When play started, Wright was leading in the first set at 98. Kumagae won the match at 8)0, 6 3, 36, 61, 62.

The playing of Kumagae has not come up to expectations. He has now been seen in action in several tournaments, and the experts are of the opinion that the Jap has so mixed up his game that he is no longer a master of anv stvle. In attempting to play net, Kumagae has lost a great deal of his back court ability, and no one believes he will be a finalist here. The boys tournament was finished yesterday. As expected, Vincent Richards was the winner, beating Abraham Bassford 3d at 62, 97, 76.

Summaries. National Singles Championship. FOURTH ROUND. Ichlya Kumagae defeated Beals C. Wright, 810, 63, 38.

61, 62. FIFTH ROUND. Robert Llndley Murray defeated Nathaniel w. Nlles. 75, 64.

26. 75; William T. Tilden 2d defeated Walter Merrill Hall, 8 6, 81. 57. 7 5..

61. National Junior Championship. SEMI-FINAL ROUND. Harold Taylor, Brooklyn, defeated Gerald Emerson, Montclalr, 63, 63; J. Hennessey, Indianapolis, defeated K.

C. Simmons, Los Angeles. 62, 62, 6 4. Boys National Championship. FINAL ROUND.

Vincent Richards, Yonkers, N. defeated Abraham Bassford 3d, New York, 6 2. 97, 75. Veterans National Championship THIRD ROUND. Fred G.

Anderson defeated G. W. Case. 4 6, 6 4, 6 Ross Burchard defeated Dr. W.

T. Btephens, 64, 61; Edwm Sheale defeated C. J. Post, 46, 62, 7 o. SEMI-FINAL ROUND.

Fred O. Anderson won from Dr. Willard Travel! by default. Father and Son Championship. SECOND ROUND.

A. H. Chapln and A. H. Chapln Jr.

defeated Gerald Donaldson and Cecil Donaldson, 61, 64. SEMI-FINAL ROUND. A. H. Chapln and A.

H. Chapln Jr, defeated W. D. Hadsell and son, 6 1, 6 2. TENNIS AT SILVER BAY.

Silver Bay, Lake George, August 31 The overseas secretarial team of the Silver Bay Y. M. C. A. physical directors training camp here was victorious in a five-set tennis match with the doubles champions of Lake George and Saratoga County.

Ben H. Dwight, former Yale baseball coach, was paired with Charles Chambers, a well known Metropolitan player, representing the overseas men, against Bob James of Saratoga and Eddie Chase. The score of the match was 0 4, 26, 16, 6 4, 64. TO MAKE BETTER AMERICANS Fine Plan of a Story by Rena I. Halsey of Brooklyn.

There is a fine idea In the latest I story by Rena I. Hilsey, the Brooklyn author. The story is "America's! Daughter," and it is just published by Lothrop, Lee Shepard of Boston. It tells of a club formed bv some Brooklyn school girls, called "Th Daughters of America." whose pur-j pose is to make better Americans of its members and enable them to do I more fully their part in the present war. Unlike most of the patriotic societies, it is not descent which makes a girl eligible to this Daughters of America, but the evidence of having absorbed the American spirit.

Americans in spirit who were born abroad one an Irish girl and one a Belgian refugee are made probation members for a year, to be. received Into full membership on having given proof of the American spirit. The club goes on a vacation trip through Cape Cod, Including Plymouth, Salem, Danvers and other historic spots, in order to make its members better Americans through studying American history at first hand. This part of the story has much historical information woven into its fic tion 111 a way which will make It at Philadelphian Comes Home on the Bit After Winning Unique Tennis Point. (Special to The Eagle.) FOREST HILLS, L.

August 31 Things are reaching a heartbreaking stage in the race for the thirty-seventh championship of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association on the courts of the West Side Tennis Club. Play has reached the semi-final round, and were it not for the postponement of matches due first to the marathon affair staged by Selichiro Kashio and the rain on Thursday afternoon it would have been possible for the committee to wind up as interesting a tournament as hag" ever been staged on Monday afternoon. Unfortunately there is a snag in the lower half of the draw, lehiya Ku-magae and Lyle E. Mahan are one bracket behind tho other players. They are meeting this afternoon and the winner is to play William T.

Til-den on Monday. Naturally it will be impossible to stage a semi-final and a final match on the same day. Therefore the winner of the lower half of tho draw will not meet the winner of the upper half of the tournament until Tuesday. Pick Murray and Tilden for Filial. The winner of the upper half of the tournament will be known today.

It will either be Lieutenant S. Howard Voshell, the Borough Park expert, nr Robert Lindlev Murray, the sen sational player from the Golden West. According to the gallery that already is filling the little grand stand, Murray should have no great difficulty in winning from Voshell. They also look to see Tilden come through In the lower half of the draw, If things fall as expected, Tilden and Murray will meet in the finals in what promises to.be the greatest tennis match of the year. The tennis experts are still somewhat uncertain regarding the probable outcome of the Tilden-Murray match.

Tilden Is a mystery. He is either one of the greatest players the game has ever seen and is two or more strokes better than any other man in the tournament or else ho Is Just covered with good luck. Take what happened yesterday in the continuation of his match against Walter Merril Hall. When rain stopped the play on Thursday afternoon, Hall had a decided lead on Tilden. The score was 6 3, 1 6 and 7 5 in sets, and 3 2 in games in favor Hall.

Tilden had the service and the score was deuce. When the men took to the court yesterday, interest was at fever heat. Tilden won out his service and the score in games was 3 all. Hall took his own service and, to the surprise of tho gallery, broke through and again won Tilden's service, making the score 3 in his favor. Odd Miss Beats Hall.

When Hall started to serve every one believed that Tilden was beaten. Each was playing with great caution, taking practically no chances. A net by Tilden gave Hall the first point. Tilden then got to the net and Oh, Where, Was Tham? Mistuh Tham Langford of Bawston, hub of the Intellectual Universe, per petrated a rawther unintellectual trick on a large gathering of simple and guileless inhabitants of the Metropolitan District and environs last night. Incidentally, he compelled the New Jersey Exhibition Company, which controls the destinies of the Jersey City Baseball Park, to give out rain checks to this same gathering; which same is repellant to the pugilistic pro-mater and is extremely painful.

But to proceed: The Tar Baby was scheduled to meet Harry Wills of the South in an exhibition at the said Jer set down that the Twenty-second French Canadian Battalion, as these authors had seen it, was absolutely fearless and second to none in bravery. Lo'uis Tracy writes the foreword to the story, and several expressive illustrations accompany the text War Letters of Edwin A. Abbey 2(1. "An American Soldier" (Houghton Mifflin Co.) is the letters of Lieutenant Edwin Austin Abbey 2d, nephew of the painter, who enlisted in a Canadian regiment when the United States had not yet entered the conflict, and was killed at the Battle of Vimy Ridge, where Canadian troops won immortal fame. Young Abbey's father and mother gave theit patriotic encouragement to their son's plan to "offer his services in some capacity in the war," even when the biggest kind of success was within his reach in civil life.

His letters home, showing his spiritual development, and their unedited character as the frank, simple lines of a gallant young soul, form one of the classics in the Army literature of the war. Thd rlav hpfnrfi hp ws killprl Via heard for the first time that the United States had declared war on Germany; "So I go with the happy consciousness," he wrote in a letter to his father and mother, which was found in his kit, "that. I am, and you are, fighting for our dear flag, a3 thousands of Americans have before us in the cause of Liberty." The Egyptian and Desert Cnmpaijms. With the compliments of Professor Macneile Dixon, a copy of "The Desert Campaigns," from the presses of Putnam, and by W. T.

Massey, official correspondent of London newspapers and attached to the Kgyptian Expeditionary Force, and its pages illustrated from drawings by James McBey, reaches The Eagle. So little, comparatively, has been published in (his country about the fighting British army in Egypt and the Sinai nnd I.y-hian deserts against the Turks and their allies that it attracted only faint attention, like some little foreign war coincidental with the world conflict in Europe. But it was a splendid drive against the Teuton's march to Bagdad, which the Kaiser had selected for one end of his Mittel Europa. The results of the British campaign In Egypt and Palestine have been truly admirable and are calculated to figure with tremendous influence in the general outcome of the world's wnr. The men who composed the expeditionary force faced the enemy where water was scarce, railroads al most unknown and heat, and suffering from it.

and thirst such as art unknown on the western front. Turkish spies and Turkish gold at first came near making possible the destruction of the Suez Canal, but tact and watchfulness overcame that danger until the troops got on the scene. First, it was protection of the canal, then the Pur. danelles folly, next the barren Desert of Slnni, when it was found out thut the best was the plan to defend Egypt on the Palestine frontier and not on the Suez Canal, nnd then tho successful advance Into Palestine! itself. Thl.s included a tierce battle In tho desert in the sizzling month of August; tho heat was often 114 in the shade, where the latter could bo made, and sometimes higher.

But tho march across the desert and" 1 1 1 I Big League Records NATIONAL. Standing of the Clubs Club. w. P.C.I Club. 62 43 New York.

69 81 .575 Phila phla 64 RK Boston Cincinnati. 63 60 w. I c. SI. 67.

451 f. 3 6 .445 SI S9 .425 CI 74 .408 Results Yesterday. New York, 1 Brooklyn, 0. Philadelphia. Boston.

0. Boston, Philadelphia, 3. Cincinnati, Chicago, 3. St. Louis-Pittsburg, wet grounds.

Games Tomorrow. Pittsburg at Chicago. St. Louis at Pittsburg. AMERICAN.

Standing of the Clubs Club. w. L. P.C.i Club. w.

P.P. ISisfM 73 49 57 63 .475 71 54 54 63 .471 New York! 5 60 E0 74 Mi Results Yesterday. Washington. New York, 1. Boston, 12; Philadelphia, 0.

Boston, Philadelphia, 1. Cleveland, Detroit, 1. Cleveland, Detroit, 2. Games Tomorrow. Philadelphia at Washington.

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3012 MAIN: NIGHTS ANI SUNDAYS. 1327-U EVERGREEN, 11-21 Thc Rlt-h Divorce Crowd. There is a solemn pretence of sociological value made In a foreword to Owen Johnson's latest yarn, "Virtuous Wives" (Little, Brown Boston). The foreword gives you a distaste for the book, but after all it might easily have been worse, while without question Johnson could have made it a great deal better if he had been willing to take the trouble. It is a story of the rich commercial crowd with summer places on Long Island.

The "virtuous" wives of two of these magnates devote themselves to the task of seeing how far they can get into the fire without being burned. Their flirtations begin with the desire for social success, which in their circle seems to imply having two or three "tame cats" who trail around with them to parties and restaurants, and the whole life is summed up In the old motto. "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die." The women, however. Insist upon being both merry and respectable, and occasionally the combination becomes hard to man-ace. It was particularly so in the case of Amy Forrester, who started out by being in love with her husband, but was educated out of that gaucherie by the set to which he Introduced her, and in which he wished hpr to mnke a social success as food for his own vanity.

Both husband and wife come near to falling off the domestic watr wagon, but hold on to Its tail board through the fear of scandal. They are finally reunited through a great shock. The story Is not particularly plnusi-ble with tho lay figures whom Johnson has drawn to carry it on, but it is enough like the enssin of the Sun day papers in the days hefore the war when, of course, the scene Is laid to have a superficial resemblanco to life in New York. The claim of the foreword, that the transition in living in New York from whole houses to apartments Is responsible for the moral deterioration of Its women, la "bunk," pure and simple. Stories for Soldiers.

Next to passes when he wants them a soldier likes to tell stories about thn profession ha is going to follow until the Kaiser decides he has bad enough. Most of the stories he tells are supposed to be true, lie can even toll you the name of the cantonment in which the Incident happened and tho names of the officers, too, when It happened. Send that soldier of yours a copy of "Khaki Komedy" (Howell), by Sergeant Major Edward D. Rose, and he'll have a goodly supply of funny stories to draw from when tha follows nra swapping yarns Just before taps. ALLEN UPDEGRAFF SENDS GREENWICH VILLAGE TO THE WAR Matters Concerning the War And Readjustments to Follow; Philip Gibbs on the Fighting A Greenwich Village Novel Flays Modernism and Pacifism; Other Readable New Stories "Strayed Revellers," by Allen Up- ing story for a hot afternoon we degraff (Henry Holt New heartily commend "Strayed Revel-York), is a highly clever artd original Ier5-" Mlller.c 3 Coombs.p...

3 Totals 29 Name. Bums.cf.... 4 Young.rf..., 3 Doyle, 4 4 3 Compton.lf. 4 KIrke.lb.... 3 McCarty.c.

3 PcrrlU.p.... 3 0 2 2 0 0 NEW YORK. Totals 31 1 7 8 0 0 None out when winning run waa scored. Score by innings. Rrooklyn New York ,00000000 00 .00000000 11 Base Hits by lnnlnga.

Rrooklyn New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0-2 2 0 0 3-7 0 0 1 0 1 Earned run New York, 1. Two-base hit-Burns. Double play Olson to Daubert. First base on error New York, 1. keft on bases-Brooklyn, New York, 8.

Umpires Byron and Harrison. Time of game 57 minutes. Pitchers Summary. I'gs. AB.

R. ER. H. B8.S0.HP.WP 8 1-3 31 1 1 7 2 3 0 0 9 29 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 Coombs Perrltt FREIBERG BEAT ZBYSZKO. John Freiberg, the Swedish heavyweight wrestler, recently threw Wla-dek Zbyszko, tho Pole, twice in Chicago, according to a story coming in from that city.

The story adds that Zbyszko tried to get out of the match after it was made, but that it was put up to him to go through with.it or be through in Chicago, and he went. Freiberg won in straight falls. (John Lane) a narrative of war incidents such as an ambulance driver, as he was, could become acquainted with, including some real experience with flying shells and bullets and many horrors. What he has written is not a record of adventure, but detached impressions or sights during a very active service. What an ambulance driver has to do in France has often been told in war stories, but this writer seems to have something to say that has been left unsaid until now.

At Bar-le-Duc the German shells fell only on a German prison camp and on a camp of Bulgarian prisoners, which "caused amusement among the ambulance drivers." In August, 1916, a Frenchman captured from a German trench a German rifle that had been made in "New Jersey, U. S. The Indians never take a prisoner, and the author tells a grew-some story of this practice of the Hindu regiments. Here is something of a similar kind: "The first wave in a battle is followed by the who kill all the wounded and the odd prisoners, it being impractical for a charging lino to attempt to hold a few captives," especially as such Germans are likely to turn on their captors wncn tney come across a gun or some other weapon." A similiar custom prevails with the Germans. says the author.

One way of treating troublesome prisoners of war is to send tnem into a dugout on the pretense of better protection -for them and then to throw a few hand grenades among tnem, tnus eirecting death and burial at the same time. Altogether this war narrative is different Bravery of French Canadians. Captain James Belton and Lieutenant E. G. Odell are responsible for this account of what may be seen in the fighting in France, "Hunting the Hun" (Appleton.

both of them were officers in the Twenty-fouoci Canadian Battalion. It is unavoidable that, where there are so many accounts of individual war services, there must be chapters that are not dissimilar from others in productions of tho same kind. In this one, which is Illuminating of real life in the trenches and with the wonderful tanks, tho reader will again find all about the splendid Canadian record at Vimy Ridge, and an abundance of tips as to what to expect "at the front." It is, moreover, one of the very few, if not the only one of the narratives of the armed conflict that frankly "own up" to the use of liquor to "braco up" the poor fellow that is sent from the foul bed of a trench to buttle with tho enemy hand to hand. All of It is told in sincere ioldlor fashion, with no attempt at literary cmbolllshments, but by men who have an Interesllng story to tell nnd tell it well. Many people have had things to say of the French Canadians and their failure to enlist more freely, In this book It Is tractive to young readers.

It makes mol.e of the girt determined to pro-these shrines of American his pry and claim her illegitimate relation to her patriotism reem quae as well worth or Skeeter Riley and liis the victories over the Turks and the Bedouins proved the wisdom of the British general's policy to go out and meet the enemy. The Turks had rested, in the firm conviction that an advance of the British across the Sinai Peninsula during the summer was an impossibility. After the British victories none praised Allah more fervently than did the Arabs. At Rafa, on the Egyptian border of the Holy Land, the British army constructed a race course and ran excellent races with thoroughbreds that had made possible the march of the army across the desert. By the races charity was benefited a thousand dollars.

After the sporting event, which followed on the heels of the Turks' defeat, the British began their advance into Palestine. In the meantime to Egypt had been returned every foot of its territory. Mr. Massey's last chapters describe the campaign against the Senussi In the Libyan Desert. It was a wonderful and a successful military adventure into the sandy, almost waterless Sahara.

ETERNAL PUNISHMENT "The Future Life" (Benzlger Brothers) Is an important religious one-volume treatise, from a Roman Catholic standpoint, by the Jesuit Father Joseph Saisa. It is principally important to clergymen, students and scholars interested in the doctrine of the future life as taught by the Church of Rome. Father Saisa. either quotes or frequently consults a mass of authorities, and cites many authentic documents, to prove that, though the Protestant denominations, whose names he lists, "radically differ in a large number of their tenets from the doctrines of the Catholic Church, they substantially agree with her on the Christian dogma of eternal punishment." Among the personal authorities mentioned by the author in support of the teachings of his Church in this respect are the Rev. Justin D.

Fulton, the Rev. T. Do Witt Talmago, Henry Ward Beecher and Dr. Lyman Abbott of Brooklyn. No mere extracts from such a large volume could give a fair idea of its comprehensiveness.

It is essentially controversial. In the Osier division of men on the subject of the future life the Laodiceans, the Gallionians and the Theresians the author accepts the latter as the Roman Catholics, of them, which leaves quite a number to be accounted for. The first he assembles under the designation of Christians who are "neither hot nor "and the Gallionians as those who try to persuade themselves that there is nothing to hope for or to fear beyond the grave. Between the atheism which believes that there is no hereafter and the conviction that everlasting hell forever, is Ood's retribution against sinners, there are vast numbers of mortals seeking a more hopeful truth, but finding little except the two extremes. But, says the author, it is tho Catholic Church that expounds the true doctrine.

Ho cannot for one instant be mistaken as occupying a middle ground. His Church would forbid It. It is either obedience to His will nnd reward in heaven, or resistance to His will and everlasting punishment in hell. One of the really great war books 1 a work that stands out among the lesser stories of the great conflict like a huge rock on a level plain is "From Bapaume to Parschendaele," by Philip Gibbs (Doran It is as good in every way as his previous books, "The Battles of the Sommo" and "The Soul of the War," and in some respects is even better. Gibbs has wonderful powers of description, and readers of his books can visualize the tragedy, the pathos and the humors of war.

The word humors is no misnomer, for even the struggle that has laid nations waste, darkened millions of homes and changed the world's course of events has its humorous side. But Gibbs docs not overplay the lighter phases of war. He saw them, however, and here and there his somber story is relieved by a touch of humor that makes even jnen at war kin. It is a graphic story, "From Bapaume to Parschendaele," a story of events on the western front from New 'Tear's Eve, 1916, to November 7 of the same year a review of almost twelve months of desperate fighting. It Is chronologically written and forms a story of absorbing interest.

Much of the matter in the nearly 600 pages has appeared from day to day in the New York Times, for which Mr. Gibbs was correspondent In the war zone. But a great deal has been added, and the book may be said to be entirely new. It is undoubtedly historically correct, and no hiHtory of the war, written as historians write, can ever be an Interesting as this story by one of the greatest war correspondents of the present generation. "From Bapaume to Parschendaele" is at once history and romance.

It is a wonder- tul book one worth owning, to be read and reread. A War rTamatlvo FtiH of Horrors. I I'hlltp Unna Orrutt has composed, In "The White Road Mystery" NEW PrBMCATTONS. CASH PAID FOR BOOKS Highest prices paid for larpre or small collections of BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS or other literary property. Cash down and prompt removal.

NEW YORK'S LARGEST BOOKSTORE 42 Brosdwiy, N. Y. Fiona 3900 Broad! siory ana tor the first third it is de- iigntruuy, refreshingly amusing. By the of the story, however, Mr. Updegraff's contempt for the sort of pacifist modernists who flocked in Greenwich village when the war broke out, overcomes his sense of humor and he allows himself to become serious over the problem of the conversion of these egoists.

The seriousness is genuine and stirring and quite worth while, but it is less original than the humor, so that one almost wishes that the author had been content to treat his strayed Greenwich villagers as a joke and nothing more. The objection to that would have been that even a good joke oaila when it is too lone drawn out ii ii budding passion would have been the orop too much that all the men thought they got in Cy Wetmore's hasheesh punch. That scene of the Christian Science "bat" on colored ice water, by the way, is one of the bright spots of the story and it. is hardly fair to give to readers who may go from this notice to the book a clue to its secret. "Strayed Revellers" is described as an "ultra modern love story," and it lives up to the description, Clotilde, its heroine, is a believer In truth, though the heavens fall who In the early pages suggests Don Marquis' Hermione taken seriously.

Hermione, however, is a pretty little faker, while Clotilde is genuine all the way through, so genuine that her modernism falls from her like a garment at the touch of primitive passion. The modernism of Greenwich village gets (iome sly knocks in the stories which old Hen Hooghtyling tells his amazing daughter of the workings of lib erated feminine impulse nmld the ru conditions of Woodbridge in the Catskills, the lutle village to which to the Revellers stray for the summer for respite from the too great sophistication of the Black Cat. Hen Hoot, ns the old man 13 known to his rustic neighbors. Is a joy of purest ray serene, although he is a. little long drawn out as a result of having lived where he had all winter long to tell things In.

Ethel, his stone mason of a wife, is a solid If not exactly romantic figure, and the young innocence of Skeeter is delightful. But the triumph of the book is Clotilde and the modernist who turned aviator and came home from the war to win her and turn her into an driver for the Red Cross. That ending sounds conventional, hut Mr. Updegraff's manner saves It from banality or boredom. As an entertain- visiting as tho famous spots in the European tours which were fashionable before the war.

The special merit of Miss Halsey's book is that it seems real and yet Is not dry. There is a romance woven through It concerning its heroine, who knows nothing I aunui ner iitrniiy, ana men involves cuiiie mi unit irtucis aim a. duj Scout camping party. Girls who do not particularly care for the history are likely to be held to the end by their desire to lenrn what happens tq Rona. while they absorb an interest in the scenes through which Rona passes as they read.

The plan of the book is enpeciaHy commended to the heads of girls schools who may wish to plan occupation for the summe-vacations of their charges. A party such as this society describes has great possibilities and it would be within the reach of moderate purses. SEWTVG AND TEXTILES. Annabell Turner, Instructor in home economics, In the University of Wis-Iral consln, and author of "The Study of Fabrics," has now to her further credit. "Sewing and Textiles" (Ap-pletons).

It is a handbook of less than 250 pages, but it Is full of instructions In the details of all kinds of plain sewing, darning, patching, embroidery, needle work, so that they may be taught to children or may be used for self-instructlor. That part of it that is a study of textiles Is probably fated for a very close scrutiny; and "bargains, legitimate bargains, so-called bargains which are frauds," will probably meet with much attention and general approval. "Rowing and Textiles" Is intended especially for grades and rural schools, and in that respect at least It promises to ba a welcome educator..