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The Washington times., 1909-06-11

Barnhart. Sullivan. Bonner. TansiH.
Priddy, Moore. Sutton. Lsrkin. Krause
Baldwin, Carroll. Purcell, Rohrrnan
Burke. Mckee, Limberger, Lynch. VII
kins' Thrali. Mcdonald. Hampton, Hay
den' Duganne. brennan.
NANY-R. S. Doyle. Fl. E. Geiss. 3. r.
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Michael, Roscoe G. Bangs. Holm
Ryan. Collie Wahler Lloyd f. 0rrtsou
James Kerr, Harwood NJ Bacon r IT
Colt. Merrill Vaughn. Alfred c. Harvey
cutter. Charies j. Callahan. John p
haas. vincent Z. Sannino.
REASURY-O nellie. Miller HestAr
Gordon, Reichard. Salb. SlavIn. srnifh
Evans, Gertman, Riolaski. Lord. No.
Carthy, Torney, Asquith Ftllcher
Cozen, McIlree. Boone. Heinrich.
WAR-Rea Shaw Baggett. Daimler
Collins. Meister. Corrigan. Muflfn Men.
Forester. Fenwick, Schon, Watso.
Daily. Gallagher. Heider. Donaldson
Long, Nichols.
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CHANGE IS NEEDED
IN RULE COVERING
POSTPONED GAMES
Extraordinary Conditions Demand That Doubled leaders
Should Be Played Off in First Series.
Bargains Satiate Public.
By THOMAS S. RICE.

Something should be done by Presi-
dent Ban johnson of the American
League to relieve the surplus Of double
headers which will be carded for Wash
angton and all the other Eastern teams
when they have finished their next
Western tour and are once more in
their own bailiwicks.
Because Of the perfectly legal but I'M
sportsmanlike tactics of some managers
in Juggling headers not only for
their own benefit, but for the benefit or
detriment OF rival teams, the American
League adopted a hard and fast rule
regulating them. It has long been the
law ia that league that a postponed
game could not be played of in the
6rst series between two teams unless
all the other teams give their consent.
Year before last a rule was passed
which automatically fixed the day OF
second or third series on which the post
poned games should be played.
Exceptional Conditions.
Both these sections of the American
League code were founded on wisdom
and the best interests of baseball, but
exceptional circumstances have now,
arisen which would well justify John
son In suspending them for awhile.
One game out of the four scheduled
with Chicago was played when that
team was here Monday, Tuesday, Wed
nesday and Thursday of this week. Chi
cago is here again July .. 80 ami 81.
That will necessitate a double-header
on every one of the three days. Cleve-
land viii follow on August ., 3, and ),
and viii have two dOuble-headers. If
they are played August and there
Will be I'VE days in a row with two
games per day
Twelve games in seven days is entirely
TOO much. 1t tends to cheaper the sport
70 an extent which is well understood
by members and stockholders. With
double-headers on five days the extra
attractions themselves become stale. and
what they are likely to do to the two
remaining dates on which there viii be
one game is a sin ami shame. Fans
who have become thoroughly accustom-
ed to getting twice the value for once
the money are prone TO become satisfied
with baseball. and even the chance to
get something for nothing viii pail on
them after a short time.
Menace To Sport.
All this is said without reference to
the strain on the players and the I'M
avoidable tendency to let down in the
face of such a horrid grind. especially
II the long succession of double-headers
happens 20 be between teams not in the
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Says Temptations Will Not
Alter His Present Clean
Mode of Living.

had OBrien buffaloed, and that lie could
not put up his usual fight. There is
nothing in that. He did the best he could
and did pretty well for time, too. At
that he was lucky to stay as long as he
did. The blows O'Brisn landed on me
did no harm whatever. and, knowing
that he could not hurt, / paid no at
tenttOn to them. Against a harder hit
ter / would take more precautions
Sends Papers Home.
Reminded that he. 10 win the cham
pionship of the world and hold the title
for any length Of time, must continue to
live clean life and turn his back on
temptations. KetcheI said: Il shall con-
tinue nv present mode Of living. I have
withstOod as great temptations as IL is
possible for a man TO be offered, and
l do not fear that / shall fall"
While ne was talking Ketchel was
packing away yesterdays Philadelphia
and he explained: Il am sending them
home 10 my father and mother They
like to rsad what the papers have 70
say about me"
Some Of those who bet on the result
of the fight so worded their bets as To
call for knockout, and some of these
are hunting for excuses to keep from
paying their bets. They declare that as
o. Brien was not counted out he was not
Knocked out.
Referee Michigan said yesterday that
knocked cut He s-OpFed the bout to
prevent serious injury 10 O'Brien. and
thinks ketChel should he given credit
for a knockout IN his record.
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MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Yesterdays Results.

VS.. Chicago-Rain.
Philadelphia VS. CleVeIa nd-Rain.
Detroit, .: New York. /
Boston VS.. St LOuis-Rain.
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Games Today.

Philadelphia at Pittsburg.
Boston al Cincinnati
New York at Chicago.
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PLAN NEEDED ACTION
AGAINST INELIGIBIES
Departmental League Stirred Up Over Alleged Infrac-
tons of Rues-Radcal Changes Expected.
Eligible Players Listed

The trouble which has arisen In the
Departmental League growing out Of
the action of several of the clubs in
playing ineligible men. viii come TO A
head at a meeting Of the board OF d.
Tec.ors. which has been called for the
early part of next week.
AS stated in The Sunday Times some
time ago. several Of the teams have ex-
pressed dissatisfaction at the growing
tendency of certain of the clubs TO play
new men. who are ineligible under the
rules, when close game is anticipated.
AS the weaker teams have been the pTin-
cipaI offenders in the past. and the pres
ence of the ineligible men hasn0t changed
the result no formal protests have been
made against the practice. but the re-
cent action OF the War Department In
PLAYING an ineligible player in game
against the Lasorites. which resulted
in the defeat Ct the latter. has been
the cause of much hard feeling, and 1t
is probable that protest of the game
will come up before the board at the
meeting next week.
Coomit.ee To Act.
In the meantime the executive COM
mittee HIS taken steps to eliminate
the tendency TO tTansgress the rules.
and a list of e.lc Die players. together
with a warning nat all games in which
ineligible men arc played will be decided
against the offender, has oeen sent TO
the manager of every club IN the
league.
The board will also be called upon 10
determine the protest OF certain of the
clubs that several of the players wh0
have been certified by the various de-
partments are ineligible for certifcatiOn
Under the rules of the league. all play
ers certified must be bona fide en-
ployes OF the department certifying
them. or the permission of the board
obtained TO play outside men.
These protests have already been taken
up by the executive committee, and a
list has been prepared of players who
have been certified as bona fde en-
pIoyes. but who have had no connection
with the department certifying them.
and il is the intention of the commit
tee to place this list before the board
for action.
The List
The list of players who have been
certified by the various departments is
as follows:
AGRICULTURE - Weber, Sanders,
Bryan, Vennaman, w. Taylor, Priest,
A. Taylor. Newberry. Herbert, Nc
Quinn. Fields. Graham. Doyle, Sasscer.
SSeehorn, Murphy.
COMMERCE AND LABOR - Evans.
Erwin, Balzer. Barnes, Drummer. Kin
ney. Fitzgerald, Richmond. Menefee.
i<leinschmidt, Beilaski. Shoemaker.
Handiboe. Rapp. George, Fenshaw.
Signor.
CoMMISSTONERS-Hupphrey Beck
EFT, Howard Beckett. j. w. Whiting, j.
II. CoIiflOwer. Charles NJ. Sabins. ]. J.
Hurley, jr., William n. Handiboe. Z.
w ThOrlas, Lee Kemp. Charles Becl5-
EFT. John T. Mooney. Claude F. Birch,
A. s. Lay, s. H. Harding. w. G. Me-
Nulty. c. W. Camalier, E A. Fuller
c. A. Treadway.
INTERTOR-Carr. Julian, Beaulac,
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Standing of the Clubs
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Yesterdays Results.

Pittsburg VS.. Philadelphia-Rain.
Chicago. .: New York. O.
Cincinnati VS.. Boston-Rain-
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in the best possible condition for John
SON"
Never Hurts Hands.
Questioned about his hands KetcheI
said ne had never hurt his hands ser
iOusly since taking up the fighting game.
It's the fellows who are afraid that
hurt their hands, said Ketchel. Il wade
right in and let every blow go hard and
never hurt my hands. Yes, I heard
something crack that sounded like a
broken bone in the first round with
O'Brien, bat IL wasn't my bones ] had
landed hard on O'Briens r'Os. but /
have not heard that any Of gAem were
broken.
Il see some of the papers say that l
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Games Today.

Chicago at New York.
St. Louis at Philadelphia.
Detroit at Washington.
Cleveland al Boston.
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running for the pennent. as viii prob
ably be the case when Chicago and
Washington mingle again in the Capital.
Any hint Of letting up on the part Of
the players is always a serious blow
20 the sport, and should be avoided at
any cost.
Wherefore, such being the facts. we
would suggest TO President Johnson that
i'm view of the abnormaIIy rainy spring
which has interfered with the schedule
the rule should be suspended and future
as possible The prospects for a
game with Detroit TODAY are extremely
remote. and some steps should be taken
to see that the double-header If there is
one, be gotten out of the way this series
say next Monday. That will relieve the
congestion in August, and also furnish a
special card for what is generally count
ed a bad day from a box office stand
point. The same step would be advis-
able IL there are any postponements
when ST. Louis follows Detroit,
1t may be contended that Detroit
would have an unfair advantage in
with the wOefully weak Washington
brethren-but. cease the strife, A peep
into the crystal globe does not show
that Washington is going to be much
more formidable TO the Tigers or Browns
In August than ii IS now.
Ladies' day today. Game at 4:Se D. m.
maybe
We have With us today Hughey Jen-
nings and Ty Cobb. TO say nothing of
Sam Crawford and Matty Mcintyre,
Bush and SchaefeT. and other notables
from Detroit This is a combination
that pleases US much. Jennings is worth
the price of admission as a manager
and cOacher. Cobb. in his batting and
base-running. couples with Hal Chase in
fielding as. TO our mind, the most inter-
esting pair in the American League
men who are always doing the uneX-
pected and furnishing concrete object
lessons OF the highest development of
modern baseball. To see either OF these
men in action is TO take a sort of post
graduate course in the finer points of
the game. Both may have sweiled
heads and both may not. but ii is a
cinch they are delivering the goods, and
that is what counts. There be them
who claim that sam Crawford is a more
valuable batter than Cobb because his
clouts are sturdier and better calcu-
lated to send somebody else home. This
point is we'll taken at times, for Cobo
frequently fattens his average by get
ting 10 first by mere strategy or fleet
ness of foot. without helping a team
mate to any vast extent It would be
well 10 remember this argument of
many critics In watching the work of
Cobb and Crawford in the present Sc
ries Note their sticking, and draw
your own conclusions.
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HEAYIES. MAY MEET
FOR FINISH SCRAP
Nevada Club Hangs Up
$4,000 for Johnson
Kaufman Fight.

BOSTON. June 1I.-Jack Johnson and
AL Kaufman will probably meet in a
finish fight for the championship Of the
world at Goldheld. New, on Labor Day.
johnson has received an offer from the
Goldheld promoters or s250o0 for a bout
With Kaufman. but the champion viii
hold out for SO. 900, and believes the Ne
vsds club viii post that amount.
With Johnson scheduled 10 appear IN
court on June 70 and 26 10 meet debt
charge. il is likely that the champion
will remain in Boston for some time.
He expected to leave next week. arr
after two DAYS stay al Atlantic CITY.
planned to leave for the coast but the
tourf cases have unset his Dlans.
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PLAN TO TRANSFER
READING FRANCHISE
Current Ruror Says Tri-State
Team Will Make
Shift.

READING, June 11.-Numerous ru-
mors are ahoat here regarding the
Reading Tri-State ball team. The latest
is that the Reading T. IN Is 10 be trans
ferTed 10 Atlantic City.
1t IS said that the game last Sunday
day between the local club and the
Athletics was simply a try-out to as
certain whether or not Atlantic City
would stand for Sunday ball and sup
port a league team.
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MAY SELECT SITE.

Members OF the Columbia Golf Club
viii hold a meeting at the Raleigh
Hotel next Wednesday evening for the
purpose Of hearing the report Of the
committee on sizes for a new course.
and take such action on the matter as
seems advisa BILE.
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NINE PLAYS
TIGERS TOMORROW

NEW HAVEN. Conn, June lI.-With
The largest bunch OF Yale rooters ever
taken 10 Princeton. the varsity baseball
club will leave this evening for New
Jersey
Yale has one victory over the Tigers.
60 her credit. Should Princeton win to-
morrow. the decisive battle viii be
fought out in a third game in New
York.
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GLOOM IN CUB CAMP,
JOE TINKER IS SICK
Chicago Shortstop Is Confined to
Bed With Kidney
Trouble.

CHICAGO. June 1I-There Is gloom IN
the Cubs camp today. Joe Tinker,
shortstop, has been ordered by his phy-
stefan TO remain in bed for several days.
Joe is suffering with kidney trouble,
which is complicated with neuralgia.
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AMATEUR LEAGUES
Games Today.

Capital City Leasue-No game
scheduled.
Departmental League Treasury
We. Agriculture and Navy vs. War
Marquette League - Bloomingdale
vs.. Congressionals.
Sunday School Lea gue-Ninth vs..
Peck.
Independence League--WaIlach VS.
Agriculture
Suburban League-Pa rkview vs.
Brightwood.
r r. Y. NJ c. A League-Union
Station VS. TTainmen.
Bankers League-Commercia vs.
American National.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-01
Good Crop Weather and Business

Money is plentiful at New York, and no one at present apprehends any stringency in the money market when crops are ready to be moved next fall The surplus in the New York banks is the largest midsummer surplus in ten years, despite the call for the return of government deposits.
 Fully 80 per cent of the iron and steel capacity of the country Is in op- eration, and yet iron is firmly held. An increase in prices has been estab- lished, due in good part to increases in the orders of the railroads in anticipa- tion of heavy crop movements.
 Thus far all crop news Is full of promise and even of fruition, for the winter wheat harvest is turning out better than the reports had predicted. This harvest is now well advanced, and there are crop experts who think the outcome Will De 4oo,oVu,ooo push- els. The weather is simply ideal in the spring wheat states and in the corn belt, and either may make good any deficiency that may occur in will ter wheat.
 The crop condition is calling plainly for business betterment, and 1t is i'm possible to resist the evidence con- stantly coming in that general busi- ness and industrial activity are both on the upgrade. Every farmer in the south is striving to rid his fields of grass, and one week more of dry weath- CT will put corn and cotton in this sec ton on a normal footing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-01
End of the Fiscal Year

At midnight, just before the paper went to press, a fiscal year went into history, and new year was begun. The old year went out displaying a government deficit of s946OO, ,OOO, as against a deficit of $62 2,00O,OO0 in the previous year On account of impend- ing tariff changes imports were greatly increased, but imports are now falling back to the figures of year ago.
 It is idle to expect that the Sixty first Congress will cut down expendi- | lures. It will do nothing of the kind and the chances are that the friends of liberal appropriations are getting be- hind the proposed corporation dividend tax because it will fill the treasury.
 The Aldrich-Payne tariff is largely drawn on prohibitive lines, and 1t is not expected to yield much more reve- nue than the Dingley bill now does. It's friends do not look for more than $12,0OO,0 900 in excess of present GUS toms receipts. All hopes against an other huge deficit are based on the corporation tax amendment. If collec. tion under that amendment be wig orously enforced a vast revenue will be produced. Senator Kean of New Jersey, the home of corporations, esti' mates it will yield $100,000OO0 year. This is beyond Senator Aldrich's esti- mate, but Senator Kean is a better judge of the corporation situation than the Rhode Islander Is. Much depends however, upon the thorough enforce ment of the new form of taxation, for its adoption is well assured. It Is as l good as law now. It will be put 1 through by the force of administration and the fear of other huge deficits The republicans hope that a full treas
 ury and a delusive income tax consti- tutional proposition will cause the peo pie to forget the tariff rates that are to be adopted to boom special interests at the expense of the ultimate con sumer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-01

against really because the applications for berths by black people are few and far between, and a sleeping car for oolored passengers could not be op- erated except at loss. The problem was solved. therefore, on a technicali- ty, and it apparently will stay solved until there are enough colored appli- cants to fill a sleeping car, when one would no doubt be attached to a train. The hye bishops would have won tteir contention so far as sleeping accom- modations are concerned if they had had enough applicants for berths be- hind them. The commission wants practical rather than an academic problem
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-01
CLUB ETIQUETTE IN LONDON

From a London Letter to Vogue.
 The old rule concernings clubs in London has not been abrogated. When an Eng lishman comes to New York we rush to put him up at our various clubs. He has the entree to all of them; and he lives in clover. When an American goes to London, he must be content to be as a stranger and he is escorted to the strang- ers' room and dined in a cubby hole, as If he were species of infected person. This experience applies whether he is d member of a smart New York club or not There are a few clubs of the second and third class which admit strangers, and the American in absolute despair, sometimes subscribes to these proprietary affairs, so as to be able to have some place other than an hotel or a business office from which to direct his correspon- dence. The Englishman maintains that we do not yet understand club life. An American, according to this authority, uses his club for lounging place as well as for an office in which to transact business. He will put up business or an out-of-town acquaintance at his club when he would not ask him to his house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Chickens and Eggs.

'The poultry industry in Alabama is growing, but 1t is nothing like so exten- sive as 1t should be-" said B. L. Michael. son, who is connected with a large com mission establishment on Morris ave- nue.
 Chickens and eggs are profitable. and when poultry farming Is conducted in d business-lke way few things pay as we'll. cullman is now shipping large quantities of eggs and chickens and the concern which I represent makes a speciality of handling Alabama poultry products Flor ence Is another town that is shipping chickens and eggs on an extensive scale The greater part of the stuff handled in Florence is shipped to cities in Tennes- see and north of Tennessee; but Birming- ham is good market for the products of northern Alabama. I visited Florence re- gently and found 1t easy to secure con signments from that rich section. The freight rates are not, as some people think, unfavorable to our market All that Is necessary to divert a high per centage of Florence business to Birming- ham is ordinary business enterprise on the part of local merchants.
 Chickens and eggs that come from northern Alabama and from Tennessee are of superior quality and always com mand top prices"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-01
ITS sAlR TO DREAM.

By K. Gilhllan. 'Tis sair to dream O them we like / That waking we shall never see, Yet, oh! how kindly was the smile My laddie in my sleeep gave me. thought we sat beside the burn That wimples down the fiowery glen. We met that ne'er shall meet again! The simmer sun sank meath the wave And gladdened, wi his parting ray. The woodland wild and valley green, Fast fading into gloamin' gray. He talk'd of days O future joy, And yet my heart was haflins sair, For when his eye 1t beam'd on me, A whitening death glance was there! thought him dead and then thought That life was young and love was
 free, For o'er our heads the mavis sang, And hameward hied the jaunty bee. We pledged our love and plighted
 troth.
 But cauld, cauld was the kiss he
 gave,
 When. starting from my dream. I
 found
 His troth was plighted to the grave! I canna weep, for hope is Led, And naught would do but silent
 mourn
 Were't no dream that should na como, To whisper back my loves return; Iris sair to dream O them we like, That wakin' we shall never see; Yet, oh! how kindly was the smile My laddie in my sleep gave mo!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-01
POOLING WITH PROHIBITION.

From f1dTpeT Wechiy.
 Kansas Is now experimenting with a new rum-proof liquor law, under which no alcoholic liquors can be sold In the state for any purpose. The drug store bars are to be closed up under 1t, ana the attorney general has ruled that no man can even drink liquor in club house. The druggists and the clubs are going to law about it. The attorney gen eral (Jackson)a is very earnest, and is encouraging towns (so the Springfield Re- publican reports) to limit the amount or beer that man can have shipped to his home from outside the state. Some towns allow a case a week, some case a iort- night, some two cases a week. bad feature of the prohibition laws, as Broth CT Brisbane Is truthfuly pointing out in the Evening Journal, is that they bear hardest on the light. bulky drinks, wines and beers, that do least harm and stim- ulate the traffic in the more violent sorts of Huuors The west, Kansas included, must try its own experiments with the regulation of habits, and we trust will work through in the end to wise and reasonable laws. Meanwhile the processes are trying. In Washington the cigar cite has been declared to be felonious, and cannot be smoked. we understand, at the Seattle Fair. How the patent medicine business is doing in Kansas does not appear