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Already Belgium has an alliance with France about which Britain has professed some anxiety. With Britain's southeastern seaboard within shellfire from the coast of Flanders, she has long made it a cardinal policy to protect the independence of the little kingdom. In Napoleonic times England warred on the Continent because of this danger, and for the same ample reason she again warred from 1914-18. The question which the chancellories of the world discussed last week was, will Britain agree to join the proposed entente in order to be better able to exert her protecting influence for little Belgium...
Rest from his labors has come to Walter Johnson (TIME, Sept. 22), aging ace of baseball pitchers. Last week, he and a partner acquired the Oakland (Calif.) club of the Pacific Coast League. In the spring Johnson will embark no more on stormy big league seas with the world's champion Washington Senators, but will pitch Oakland's three big opening games and then settle back, in the warm California sunshine, to grow old in profitable leisure...
...Pacific Coast, California prefaced its argument with Southern California with the announcement that the game would terminate athletic relations between the two universities. Leland Stanford was said also to have ruled against further relations with Southern California, holding them to be "not conducive to the best interests of intercollegiate sport...
...Rain, rain, go away! The Little World's Champions and the Pacific Coast Champions want to play." But the rain was implacable. St. Paul and Seattle got through only nine innings of a proposed nine-game series to determine the Class AA championship, for which St. Paul became eligible when it beat Baltimore (TIME, Oct. 20). In the nine innings played, St. Paul fell upon Seattle 12 to 4. Then the rain fell, the series was canceled...
...Dillon, the Indian player who had the ball, passed the successive five yard lines and the audience defected the hump on his back, the rolling roar of laughter sounded like the incoming ride on a rocky coast...