Notes

In Seoul, Korea, Sprinter Eldracher of Germany raced 100 metres in 10 3/10 sec. against a runner from Japan--a world's record if it is allowed. Before the afternoon was over narrow-hipped Miss Kinuye Hitomi covered the same distance in 12 sec.--a world's record for ladies. Young John Straley of Paulding, Ohio, said to Umpire Clyde Crone what many sandlot players often long to say to umpires. With a quick fist Umpire Crone did what umpires often long to do to fresh players. Straley fell awkwardly, did not get up. Policemen escorted Crone from the field, held him in $5,000 bail for manslaughter. On Oct. 20, 1910, the Chicago Tribune published on its front page, surrounded by a heavy black margin, a brief obituary surmounted by an urn and supported by a wreath. Last week, by request of a Philadelphian, the Tribune published the same obituary: HOPE--Beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fan of this city departed this life yesterday afternoon at the West Side Ball Park after a lingering illness of nine innings. She was attended by thirty thousand physicians who did all in their power to save her, but with comparatively little success. She rallied a little in the second inning but a terrific relapse in the third defied the most heroic measures and reduced her pulse, respiration and temperature until they were perceptible to only the most prejudiced observers. The heartless conduct of nine conspirators from a place called Philadelphia hastened her untimely end. The remains will lie in state today at the park, weather permitting, and the funeral will probably be later. She leaves two sisters, Faith and Charity, neither of whom was present yesterday. Philadelphia papers please copy. Last week the New York Herald Tribune published the following headline: ASSOCIATION MAKES INDOOR POLO BALL OF SOFT RUBBER OFFICIAL. By that it meant that the Indoor Polo Association met and decided that instead of an inflated, small-size basketball, indoor polo players will hereafter play with a new ball, 4 1/2 in. thick like the old one, but of a sponge rubber composition, leather-covered with only one seam and without the lacings that made the old ball swerve crazily when you hit a long drive. The association also decided that although no indoor polo player has ever been good enough to have a ten-goal handicap, Winston Guest was too good to have anything less.