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Coombs the Whole Show.

From the first half of the second in
ming in the second game it was obvious,
the Nationals chances of another vic
tory were mighty slim. In that in
ming Kelley walked Davis, the latter
was sacrificed to second by Seybold and
he scored when Collins drove liner
into Clymer's territory. The local bat
tcrs were practically helpless before
Connie Mack colleeian. Coombs. and
only in the fifth did they Seem to have
n chance to score. Clymer. who was
first up, slammed single into left and
both he and Freeman were safe when
Nichols juggled Jerry's roller Both
were sacrificed ahead by Mcbride, and
Coombs filled the bases by Intentionally
passing Street. With only one out.
Kelley tried his pest to connect. but
his bat found only the air on three sue
ccsSive swings. Pickering also took
three whiffs. but Lapp dropped his third
strike and the bail rolled toward the
grandstand Clymer, who was or third,
loafing on the job or else he might
easily have scored on the play. AS it
happened, hc Nas forced at the plate
when Lapp returned the sphere to
toombs. who was covering the pan.
The visitors scored again in the sixth.
seventh and eighth. In the sixth Barry
drove three Dagger into left and tai
lied on Davis sacrifice fly to deep CEN
ter field.
Keeley hit Lapp in the seventh and
toombS was safe when Jerry Freeman
dropped Delehanty's assist Both
scored on Nichols two-bagger to right
field.
The last run came after two were
down IN III" eighth. Seybod singled
went to third on Collins hi, and reg
tstercd when Otis Clymcr muffed Lapp's
long fly to right field
The OFFICIAL score Of the second game:
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CLOSE REMNANT RACES
National and American League
Leaders Are Closely Bunched.

Not in many years have the pennant
races in both the National and American
leagues been SO close and exciting at this
late stage of the seasons play.
New York won the only game partici-
pated in by any of the three leaders in
the National League race yesterday gain
ing three points in percentage and this
morning leading with an advantage of
twenty-one points over Chicago. in sec
ond place. Pittsburg. three points behind
Chicago, today opens a series in Phila-
delphia, while the Chicago team goes to
Boston ard ST.. Louis goes to New York.
The crucial series of the week will begin
Friday, when Pittsburg meets New York
at the Polo Grounds, while Chicago moves
to Philadelphia.
The four-cornered race in the American
League is closer than ever as the result
OF yesterdays games. Only twenty points
separate Detroit, in first place. from ST
Louis, in fourth. Victories by Cleveland
and st. Louis yesterday over Chicago and
Detroit. respectively. had the effect of
punching the quartet of first division
clubs closely enough to make a decisive
shake-up possible rs the result of two
or three days play.
The standing of the leading clubs, Mon
days games included, is as follows:
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SECOND GAME.
FODDER FOR THE FANS.
The Western League season ended yes

The Western League season ended yes
terday. Sioux City wins the pennant.
Young Jimmy O'Rourke is proving a
handy utility man for the hilltoppers.
Hans Wagner. assisted by the Pitts
burgs. is still striving valiantly for the
pennant.
a smooth and easy working outf1elder
is John Hummel. the silent Brooklyn left
gardener.
There is an old saying among ball
players, and a true one, The best ball
teams win the championships
Washington is climbing fast in the
American League. If they had started
earlier even that "hoodoO' team from
the capital might have made the leaders
go a bit-Philadelphia Bulletin.
WilliamspOrt has won the tristate cham
pionship. and Bob Unglaub will be back
there again this winter. holding down his
inspectors job.
Dunn, the New Brooklyn backstop, re-
calls Jesse Burkett In the set OF his
shoulders. II he keeps on hitting as he
did last Saturday he will recall Burkett
In other ways.
With the passing of Billy Keller goes
one of the best batting eyes that ever
looked toward the box. Willie was
sometimes fooled by the good ones but
who ever saw him offer at bad one?
James, the big Washington and Jeffer-
son catcher and foot ball PLAYER, has
been drafted from Columbus by the Bos-
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ton Americans. He was on McGraw's
staff a while last spring.

ton Americans. He was on McGraw's
staff a while last spring.
Wagner may beat Donlin out in the
batting averages. but if Donlin is a MEM
Der of a team which beats the Pirates to
the wire his will he the greater honor.
Pittsburg lost. but Chicago won. yester-
day. The Cubs are the favorite team
for championship honors with Philadel-
phia ''fandom." il the Phillies cannot
possibly get the flag. New York is not a
bit popular Observation-Disclosures Bulletin
If the New Works and Detroits play off
for the worlds championship a pleasing
feature will be that spit ball pitchers
will be very much in the background
There is none on the New York team.
and the Tigers go in very little for the
damp delivery.
Charles l. Van Zant. for several years
a prominent base ball PLAYER, and mem
Der of the Albany team Of the New York
State League. committed suicide at his
home in Nashua. \. H.. Saturday by
shooting. Van Zant mad played with the
ST. Louis National League team and
with a ST. Paul team.
Vie" Holm. described as quiet
youth. won two games. both Of them
shutoutS, in an afternoon in Spokane.
This is said to be a worlds record, and
at that the tWirler won by using his
brains ard not with the splitter or any
of the new-fangled methods which pres
ent-day pitchers employ.
Clark Griffith is back from a visit to
Plttsburg and Chicago and expects to
see the New YOrks and Detroits meet in
the pOst-sea son series. 1T will be Il bat
tie of hitters'' is the only forecast Griff
will make. The former manager also
says there Is nothing in the story that he
is trying to put an American Association
team in Pittsburg.-New York Telegram.
Last season Atlanta won the champion
ship of the Southern League. The pres
ident of the club. Mr.. Joyner. was elected
mayor of the city. This year Atlanta Is
bad seventh in the race, and both Joyner
and Manager Smith are dead ones"
Punch Knoll. the former Nashville
and New Orleans outfelder, has won the
pennant for Evansville. The Central
League closed September s. Punch says
that he has had offers from New Or
leans and Decatur H.. to finish out the
season. He says that he is done with
base ball for the year.
Pitcher Schmidt a youngster whom the
Baltimore Eastern League team corralled
off the Monumental city lots last spring.
and who even then showed remarka BILE
form against Altoona in the exhibition
series. goes to the New York Americans
by draft. Schmidt is a left-hander. The
Highlanders have also drafted another
southpaw. Revelle of Richmond who also
performed against Altoona during the
spring training trip.
Snyder. Rochesters new pitcher. is a
Merry youngSter. He went in to pitch
the first game against Toronto, and after
three runs had been scored against him
In the first inning be frightened up and
prevented further scoring. He asked to
be allowed to pitch the second game
saying he had not won a game yet. and
the time was getting short. His request
was granted. and he held Toronto to four
hits and one run, winning handily.
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LEROY BEATS DEWHURST.
New York Tennis Player Wins Open
Championship of Maryland.

BALTIMORE. September 15.-Robert
Leroy OF New York. winner OF the singles
in the sixth annual open tournament for
the tennis championship of Maryland,
which closed Saturday. yesterday defeat
ed Dr. E. b. Dewhurst of Philadelphia on
a grass court at the Baltimore Country
Club for the challenge cup offered by
the Gainesville Country Club. which the
Philadelphia held for two years. Leroy's
victory gives each man two legs and the
cup. The score was g.. 6-3, Ga
The finals for the championship doubles
Of the tournament were not finished.
J. Campbell Colston. Baltimore, and
DIR. Dewhurst OF Philadelphia played
against Robert Leroy of New York and
r. A Holden. The former pair won two
sets and the third was half finished when
darkness put an end to play. Their score
was 11-9, Ga, and each team had won
eight games on the third set.
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GARDEN CITY LINKS
BATTLE GOLFERS
Walter Harlan Leads Local
Contingent With Good
Score.

NEW YORK. September 1j-Every-
thing was ideal yesterday at the start Of
the fourteenth annual championship tour
nament of the United States Golf Assoc
citation on the links of the Garden City
Club but the scores Col Bogey sat in
state over the course all day and must
have given many a weird chuckle at the
onslaughts OF 1872 golfers from al parts
of the country who tried desperately but
in vain to send the figures tumblng from
the colonels recognized score of A. for
the q. i00-yard course.
The fight went on from o'clock in the
morning until after the sun had set.
From this exceptionally large field even
for national championship. numbering.
with few exceptions. the cream Of Amer
ica's amateur golfers, the lowest card
was ~. and that was turned in by two
players. Walter J. Travis of the homa
club. who has held the national title three
times. and Kenneth Edwards one of the
youngest as well as most brilliant. play
ers in the Chicago territory. Only two
men were able to record So-the present
champion. Jerome ID. Travers of Mont
c'air and Findlay S. Douglas. who won
the United States championship In 1875.
Close up to these leaders came Archie NJ.
Reid of st. Andrews. with 81.
Sixty-Four Qualified
SiNty-four men qualified as result OF
the long days play. and they will con
tinue today in another medal play round
and the thirty-two best scores in the two
days play will be picked for the match
play rounds. The highest qualifying num-
Der was ninety-two. and eleven men tied
at this figure for the last eleven places
They all had 10 play one hole to settle the
tie and it was dark before the decision
was made. The unfortunates who lost
were George T. Brokaw. one of the promi-
nent local players; Robert Weir OF Wi;
mington, Del; A. G. Scully of Washing
ton and Clinton Fl. Hall of the Midland
Club.
John NJ. Ward. who renowned base ball
long ago for the delights of golf. got A
place well among the leaders with ST, and
gnaliz ID himself by making two holes in
two strokes each. Only four or five got
one hole in two but Ward made his first
OH the second hole. 1SJ yards. and then
on the home hole, 100 yards. {. y. Dun
ming of Nassau, c. y. Van Week of Mont
clair r G.. Stevenson Of Boston and A.
H. Smith of Phi 'adelphia all made the
heavily bunkered home hole in two. One
of the notable scores was p. w. White
more'S 81. which was made despite 4
que to the sand pits on the last hole. c.
A. Dunning. who got 81, withdrew as h1
CONTINUED on Fifteenth Page.)
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1t was thought that the game between
Twinng and National Electric Supply
Company teams yesterday afternoon
would decide the winner in the class =
post-season series, but as 1t resulted in
tie score to 2-another game will have
10 be played. The contest was pulled off
al Capital City Park and before a large
following of both aggregations. Had
the Twining boys annexed the victory
they would have had d clear title for
the honors. and if Nesco had come out the
winner there would have been a tie-up
for the leadership. The next game be-
tween these two teams promises to be
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St. Louis Browns Coming Again.

ST LOUIS. September 15.-St. Louis
defeated Detroit again yesterday after
noon. :, to -. and crawled UP to within
two and a half games OF the league
leadership. 1t was u free-litting con-
test. with Donovan and Powell pitch
ing. and the st. Louis twirler had what
edge there was, besides getting good
support. Each team made nine hits,
but the Browns hits We're the longest
and came at the most opportune times.
Score.
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Steele Beat the Yankees.

BOSTON. September 1.-Another close
game between Boston and New York yes
terday afternoon resulted in a victory
for the local team by a margin of one
run. Boston played poorly in the field.
but that did not seem to make any diff
ference. as Steele doing the twr-
ing. and the youngster acquitted himself
admirably holding the visitors down to
five singles Score.
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White Sox Blew Up.

CHICAGO, September 15.-The White
SoX had Cleveland well in hand yester-
day till the seventh. when Owen blew
up with loud noise. Four.successive
singles were made, after which IIinch-
man hit into the bleachers for a home
run. Six runs were scored before Owen
retired. Manuel was battcd all over
the field. Score:
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VIRGINIA LEAGUE.

work Walter once in each of the other
three cities. l will. play no favorites. but
l am looking out for the Wasi1ingto on
club first. Of course, if any OF those
and raise my dander. I may let Johnson
go after them a couple of times
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Woodburn and Petworth were Op-
ponents in a nice game yesterday after
noon. the former noSing out by one
tally. Score, . to -. The batting and
base running of LeDuc and the clever
fielding of .Mayne were tie features.
Petworth gave WOODBURY. a little
trouble in the final session, but was
unable to get in enough TALES to win.
Tho
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Earned run--N. F. s. Co. l. First base by
errors-Twinlng. 4: y. f.. 5. Co.. .: Left on
bases Twinine. s: N F. s. Co. :. First base
on balls-Of kcichard, 2: or Gordon. }. Struck
ont-By Rcichard, II; hr Gordon. 9. Three base
hit liowser. Sacrifice hits-Dycr e.. Chaplin.
stolen hases-l1owser Chaplin. Mccarthy. Ge!bei
Goodman. Double nlays-Downer to Howard to
Greene: Mccarthy TO Geihcl Hit by pitcher
by Reicharl. ]; 10y Gordon. ]. Passed ball
i'ibci. Umpirc-Mr. Corrigan. Tine OF game
hour and Is minutes
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WRIST GAME.

zone out when winning run scored
Washington. ....... u I q o D o q u -
Phi adelphia. q o y u o o.
Twc-ha>e hits-Street, Edmondson. Home run
Nirhols. Sacrifice hit-Ganey. Stolen bases
D.lehanty. Mcbride Street. OltrinS. Dnubl.,
plays-McBridc Freeman; Salvc to Davis
LIFT op bases-Wa shngtoD. Is. Philadelphia. -.
First base ON balls-On keeicy. >: off Save. T.
First base by errors-Fblad.lphia, !. Struck
cut-By Kelley. 4: by Sslve = Impirc-Mr.
connolly. Time of game hours aud 10 minutes.
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hase hits Iajpie Ga. Owen P.rrng 90. Davis.
Sacrifice hit Bemis. Stolen l,aseS-1anh' hill.
Hahn. Hon" n-HincGman Three base hit
Gonde. Double piays-Owen 10 Parent I" ishell
Lajoic to S:ovall. Bases on halls-0n Owen. |;
of Manuel. on Joss. |. Struck o9t-By Owen.
=: by Nanu.l ]: by Joss. 2. Wild pitch-Man-
mel. Umpires-MeSsrs. Egan and OLoughlin.
Time of yanle-1 hour and 30 minutes
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First has" i,y errors-W WOODBURY.. 2: PctwoTth
-. 1. rst base on halls-oi Clayton J: Oh Htser.
=. Struck b. Hiser :. Twob base hits-1r
Euc, Dempsey. StOicn hases-H. Frazier. lie Due
~. e. Maync C2 Double play-Huston TO II.
Frnzrr Hit by pitchcr-By Clayton. 1. Passed
ball Thomas. Umpire-Mr. Baden. Time Of
galne-t hour and = minutes.
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Victory for Virginians.
Special Correspondence of The Star

FREDERICKSBURG, Va.
September 15 1908.
The Engineers OF Washington barracks
were defeated here yesterday by the score
of to o. Both teams played good ball
pitched for the Engineers. settled down.
and only two hits were made off his de-
livery. Score:
R.H.E.
fredericksburg. O o OK 3 !
Engineers. ...... o D D o o o 90 = !
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Earned runs-Philadepna. =. First iase by
crrors-Ih isdriPhia /: Washington, =. Left on
Philadelphia. ii; Washington, g. First
las. On balis-On Kelley. ]: OF Coomhs. =,
struck .ut-By Eeeley. ]: by Coombs. Il. THREE
base hit-Barry. Twu-base hit-Nichoiis. Sac.
rificr hits-McBride Keeley. Davis. Sevhod ca
Stolen base-Coombs. Double plays-Krcley TO
Mcbride to Freeman: Collins to Davis: Mcbride
20 Delehanty 10 Freeman Hit by pitcher-By
koeley. /. Cnpire-Mr. Connolly. Time Of game
i hour and - minutes.
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Left on iases-Boston. Z: New York. :. Bases
OH halls-1T Steele, /: of Lake. .. Struck out
BY Steele l. by Lake, - Two-base hit-Dona-
hue Sacrifice hits-Wa2ner. Ball. Steele. stolen
baScs-C ouroy Stahl. Lake. Gcss1cr. Doubl
plays-Wasner to Stahl. Moriarity to Laportc.
Steele (,!nassistcd,. Ump're-Mr. Evans. Time
of game hour and J6 minutes.
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SUBURBAN LEAGUE.

STANDING OF THE CLUBS
w. L. Pct ". T.. Pet
Bright wood. 4 I .Sn iPctwor;h. > 3 400
Parkview. -. :; 100 WOODBURY.. ! .166
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Amateur P0st-SeaS0n Series.
Tie Game for First Honors.

Game today Shopmen lexington. at Capt.
tai PARK. ut ), O'Clock.
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COMMENT ON THE GAMES.

Without knowing the exact figures in
tic case. II Is "A foreSone conclusion that |
the Nationals lave never before, had 50 .
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TWo.hase hit-Fischer. Three hlsc hits-Du-
gan. Thomas. Sacrifice hits-t1owes Cooper
First base bails-OrT Cooper. 3: OFF FRANKS, B.
First base errors-littsburg L. Cincinnati. l.
Struck Out-By Cooper. \: by Franks, =: by Ow-
ngs. .. Stolen bases-kennny CRADLE Thomas
Dooley t2>. Fischer Maddox. Greenberger. Led
with. Double play--Burke and Greenbergar Left
bases-Pittsburg. 6: Cincinnati. .. Wild pitch
,Franss Hit by pit ,'1 Franks. I. Passed
and one third innings: Off Owings II in two and
tvo-thrds innings Umpirc-Mr. Gus Marshall
Now York city. Time Of game-1 hour and 30
minutes
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81. LouiS. ............ l q > I o q 70
Diet roit ............. u ~ y %
Two-base bits-I;ossman. Williams Home run
Stone. Sacrifice hits-Powcll. T. Jones. Ferris.
Double plays -Coughlin 'unassistedl: Schmidt TO
ROSsman. Stolen baSe-Schaefer Bases on balls
of Powell. /; off Donovan. ,. Struck out-By
Powell, q; by Donovan. !. Left on bases-St.
Lcuis q: Detroit. ). Umpires-Mes<rs. Hurst
and Sheridan. Thine of game-1 hour and 81
minutes
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Totals. 8 - Is = Totals. 10 Is ~ l. |
"Batted for Owen in seventh.
tBatted for Manuel in ninth.
Chicago q o o d O.
Clevc land .......... y U u u u 10
Left ON bases-Chicago. 6: Cleveland. Z. Two
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Continued on Fifteenth Page)
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Berney Nichols. the ex-Rockville play
er. was certainly the goods in the FIVE
ganeS already played. Besides fielding
his position very we'll when a sore arm is
considered. he hit the ball for keeps. ham
mering out home rum two doubles and
seven singles. He made his first error
yesterday in twenty-three chances. Man
aser Mack considers Nichols his standby
at short now and says there are none bet
ter in the country. hitting and fielding
combined.
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many men left on the bases as in the first
game Yesterday. Sixteen was the total
number and in only one inning were the
Nationals retired in order Saive passed
eight men. which accounts for half the
number, and hit at the right time would
have broken up the game. The Athletics
had nine left. but Kelley only passed two.
50 that his performance was exceptional
" clever
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-08-15

represented by the national prohibition party IN
the early campaigns. Now, instead of trying to
impress the people with the possibility of carrying
the whole country against the saloon, the efforts
of the temperance people directed to molding
public opinion in certain limited territories. It is
in itself a reaction against itself 1t represents
! the mature judgment of the people as against the
saloon. The saloon element has been compelled to
take notice of the movement, and resolutions con-
demnng about everything that the temperance fol
lowers condemn have recently emanated from the
| associations of brewers and wholesale and retail
liquor dealers.
Now this movement, instead of being national
in its scope, is strictly local 1t has its greatest
force in the home. 1t does, indeed, represent the
public opinion as represented by the home. From
the homes of the people, it spreads to municpali-
ties, from municipalities to the townships then to
counties and to states. 1t can be but short time
till it embraces the nation. The public mind is not
infamed. 1t is rather disguised with the manner
of conducting business that ought never have
been permitted to spread and take to itself the
powers of legislation and law enforcement that it
did. 1t also represents decadence of the popular
notion that could starve his wife and family
and give his earnings to the saloon man. The 'per-
sonal rights" which make such a strong argument
in the hands of the saloon men has received some
what of a setback in the order of things. The
assumption that personal liberty" was something
higher and mghter than public morality is not
very generally held in these latter days. We have
outgrown that. The view of governmental func-
tions has greatly changed in the development of
the ages. Society finds new problems as it pro.
crosses, and it is one of the duties of society to
protect itself from its enemies whether internal
or external The result is that the nation is just
now undergoing change from the old methods
OF controlling regulating the liquor traffic. It
is change that has been coming for long time:
Tor long time it could not be discerned. but now
it IS beginning to bud, and in few years it will
be IN full bloom Already it has taken in half of
the nation. And it is confidently believed that an
other year will find Utah has joined the movement
and that the sumptuary legislation which the peo-
pie have been slow to place on the books of the state
will go there, partly because society demands pro
lection from the liquor traffic and partly because
It needs protection from the political activity of the
saloon element. Public opinion is ripe for the
change in Utah, and the wise politicians are get
ting on the water wagon at least with words. if
not with actions.