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Turtles Capture the Series

Atlanta, Ca, July 26-(SpeciaD-The
Atlanta team which will line up against
the Birmingham Barons on Monday is
a badly patched up aggregation with
a catcher on shortstop and a pitcher
on first base, but despite this fact, they
are winning games right along and
playing a grand article of ball.
ago and it festered so that it has had
to have constant care of physician
and there seems to be very little chance
of his returning to the game again in
two weeks and maybe longer. Manager
Jordan is securing the country with
kilograms for a man to take his place
and the chances are that he may get
one by the time the second Birmingham
contest is played.
Sidney Smith is playing shortstop and
playing it just as well as he did in the
1907 pennant year when Lou Castro
was hurt. Tom Fisher is playing the
initial sack and doing it we'll. Incident
ally he has found his batting eye of
late and has climbed up forty points in
the percentage column in the past week.
But these are not the only changes
that have been made in the Atlanta
team since it appeared in Birmingham
last
Pat Flaherty, the big southpaw secur-
ed from the Philadelphia Nationals Is
scheduled to twirl one of the games
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Had the Birmingham Barons been able
to make a better showing against At
lanta and New Orleans in this years
struggle for the pennant, Molesworth' s
squad would have been nearer the top.
This statement is proved by compilations
from tho inter-club series showing that
the Barons have conquered the Georgians
but twice during the entire season, dur
ing which time their scalps have been
tomahawked on seven occasions.
Against New Orleans, Birmingham has
performed equally as poorly, the inter-
tories for the Alabamians against nine for
the Crescent City leaders. Nashville and
Chattanooga, according to the researched
figures, have furnished Birmingham the
easiest opposition, each club having been
bowled over on nine occasions, with but
two defeats from Chattanooga and four
from the middle Tennesseans.
The club clashes between New Orleans
and Atlanta to date show a margin in
favor of the Pelicans which indicates to
many that should final clash force itself
on southern fandom such as characterized
the memorable 1908 windup between Nash
Vile and New Orleans, that New Orleans
will be the favorite at least in the specu-
lation. The Pelicans have won eight
games and lost five to Atlanta since the
pennant campaign was launched.
Atlantas percentage has been fattened
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MINERS HAVE NARROW
ESCAPE FROM DEATH

Terre Haute, Ind, July pa Sec
ondary shaft. called nianway, no
doubt saved the lives of many of the
200 men that were at work in the
Hooking coal mine, near Farmersburg,
when the top machinery burned out
late today. Flaming timbers fell into
the main shaft and the workings were
soon filed with smoke.
Sixteen mules are believed to have
been suffocated. Entrance into the
mine was impossible tonight. When
the fire started at the head of the
main shaft the telephone system was
used to order the miners to hurry out
by way of the manway, 200 feet north
Of the main shaft.
AS the men emerged they were
met by an anxious throng of their
relatives. The last of the miners to
come out said the smoke had pressed
them hard and their teaching in the
life saving school saved their lives.
The machinery Of the mines was de-
stroyed. The loss Is estimated at
S150,000.
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Edited By
HUGH W. ROBERTS
SOME CRACKER DOPE

against the Barons and when he works
birmingham fans are going to have the
treat of their lives. They are going to
witness a kind of twirling the like or
which they have never seen in this
league before.
Flaherty has wonderful control for
a left handler, and such quick way OF
delivering the ball that it battles both
sides. His first baseman and catcher
and the opposing base runner and bats
men are always wondering just where
he is going to throw the ball and 1t Is
this little expectancy on the part of
the other side which generally keeps
Flaherty ahead.
Another one of the new men Is j. L.
Griffin, the Texas league. This man
Atlanta had the first part of the season
and then sent to San Antonio when his
arm went bad. He has been recalled,
taking the place of E. Brown Rogers,
the eiong gated one, and is twirling a
splendid article of ball now. The games
he has lost have been small hit affairs
and in the main beautifully pitched
games.
Ed Keiber, the big Teuton that was
with Memphis last season and purchas-
ed from that team by McGraw is the
other new arrival. He was bought from
|McGraw and from the jump has proved
one of the most effective twirlers in
the league. He bids fair to stand up
with the top notchers at the end of the
season.
The outfield is the same as on the
last trip, as are the other two posi-
lions in the infield, while Matthews is
doing all the catching now and work.
ing in fine shape.
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FOREIGN GOLFERS
PLAN BIG TOUR

New York, July 24-Next year will be a
big one for international golf in this
coutry. Excepting the visit of the Ok
ford-Cambridge team in 1903 next year
will see international golf of nature
hitherto unknown in the United States.
The invading forces in 1911 will come
from Australia and they will be headed
by DR.. E. G. Brathwaite, the American
vice consul, who will act as manager.
Some of the members of the Australian
team which will come here are expert
tennis players and they may indulge in
competitive sport whilst amongst us.
The team will likely arrive in June,
next. The start will be made on the
Pacific coast and the tour will extend
clear across the country to the Atlantic
coast. Arrangements will be made for
the team to take part in both amateur
and professional matches.
Zen players will likely come. Prominent
among them will be Michael Scott, the
amateur champion of Australia and open
champion of New South Wales and Vic
toria. He is brother of O.. Scott, who
championship tournament of Great Brit
ain.
Next on the list is Clyde Pearce, who
has been both open and amateur title
holder of Australia. Then there Is Fell
stead, a left-handed golfer, who recently
broke the record for the course at the
Royal Melbourne club Last year Eel
stead won the open championship tourna-
ment of Australia, beating all the profess
SIGNALS.
Another equally well-known golfer
booked for the trip is Duncan. five times
champion of New Zealand. and runner-up
in the Australian amateur tournament In
1905
Bruce Pearce, the youthful phenomenon
of many titles, also enjoys an internal
tional reputation. This 1S-year-old lad,
who will be a member of the team, Is
champion of Tasmania and south Aus
tralia, and altogether he holds no less
than 10 minor championship titles.
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THE INTER-CLUB RESULTS

most on Nashville and Mobile, those clubs
having donated eight games each, while
Mobile has won but three games from the
Georgians. No particular club, however,
seems to have found Atlanta's goat"
this season, their grand average against
other clubs showing steady victories with
majority won over all except Chat
tanooga and Memphis, with which they
are tied--six and seven games each, re-
spectively-and with New Orleans, to
which belongs the distinction of being
the only club to win a majority over
Atlanta
Nashville and Chattanooga have proved
New Orleans Nemesis this season. Nash
vile holds the whip hand to date in the
games played with six won and five lost,
which Manager Bernhard says is but a
repetition of the 1908 pennant finale, tend
ing to prove the confidence Nashville has
when pitted against New Orleans, no
matter what conditions the team plays in.
Exclusive of Saturdays game, Chatta-
nooga has won seven and lost six with
the Pels.
Mobiles poorest showing has been
against Nashville, with but two won, ex-
elusive of Saturdays game. They have
won seven each from Birmingham, Chat
tanooga and Montgomery, which is their
best performance.
Memphis has fought most stubbornly
against Atlanta according to the records.
which show six won and lost. They have
also split with Birmingham-seven and
seven Exclusively of Saturdays results.
They have won but two games from New
Orleans with nine lost.
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REGULATIONS TO
BENEFIT MINERS

Cape Town, July 24.-(Special.) -White
miners in the Transvaal will materially
benefit If the regulations proposed by the
recent commission are carried out by the
government. One suggestion is that only
white men shall in future receive blasting
certificates and that only competent
white men shall be allowed to be in
charge of boilers, engines and machin-
cry. The existing rules draw no color
line, and a number of colored me now
hold certificates.
Stringent regulations are proposed to
safeguard the health Of the men under
ground. All dusty rock must be damped,
and no person suffering from tuberculo-
sis or disease of the respiratory organs
shall be permitted to work underground.
Some suggestions made with the idea
of preventing accidents lay down the
principle that no incompetent or mex
perienced man shall be allowed to take
part in dangerous work. The hours of
work underground are limited to eight
day, exclusive of the time occupied in
reaching work and returning to the sur
face.
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PASSENGER TRAINS
ARE ALL CANCELLED

South Bend, Ind, July 24-All passen-
ger trains to and from South Bend were
cancelled tonight the burning of freight
cars and the stalling of another freight
train in the west yards causing the COM
pany to close all operations in this VI
cinity.
The state executive Immediately got
into communication with the sheriff and
informed him of the complaint of the
Grand Trunk officials, adding that VIC
lence and the destruction of property
must be stopped. Later a message came
from Sheriff Orr In which he told the
governor that trains were moving and
that he and his deputies, together with
the police officers, could handle the stu
alton.
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BENEDICT WINS
ENDURANCE SWIM

New York, July 24.-The eighth annual
endurance swim of the United States
volunteer life-saving corps from the Bat
terry to Coney Island, distance OF about
Is miles, was a victory for the tides or
the lower harbor. Buffeted by conflict
ing currents between the Battery and
Governors Island at the start the men
were in no condition to fight the strong
err flood tide of the Narrows, which ran
dead against them as they approached
the finish. After battling nearly an hour
and making no progress, it was decided
to cut the course short by about mile
and a half.
The winner was Clifford H. Benedict, in
8 hours and IS minutes. with Arthur
Oneill close second. All who finished
We're thoroughly tired out AS usual, a
notilla of slSips led by a motor boat
accompanied the swimmers.
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Yacht Racing Today

Manchester, Mass, July 24-The races
for the Wanhaka cup, which the Sea
Wanhaka -Corinthian yacht club offer
ed Is years ago to encourage small boat
racing will begin tomorrow. The St
Lawrence, of the Royal-St. Lawrence
Yacht club of Montreal, is the challen-
ger and the Massachusetts, of the Man
chester Yacht club, the defender. The
first race will be sailed tomorrow after
noon in Salem bay over 12-mile tri-
angular course of one and one thiro
miles to a side. The conditions are the
best three of five wins.
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DIAMOND GOSSIP

The three baseball players who hold
the spotlight on the three New York
baseball teams are Beals Becker, the
phenomenal hittin goutfielder of the
Giants; Jack" Dalton, the outfield star
of the Brooklyn Nationals and Ed
Sweeney, the catcher of the New York
Americans.
Sweeney is not newcomer into the
limelight, as he has been the sensa-
ton as a baekstop throughout the cir
cult Critics in nearly every city of
the American league circuit unhesitat-
1ngly proclaim Sweeney as the best
catcher in that organization. Last year
Sweeney was good in spots, but he
had a tendency to draw his arm back
too far in throwing to second. He
found it necessary to develop snap
throw and by hard work succeeded
His throwing is now so accurate that
very few base runners Will take a
chance of stealing on him. He also
handles the pitchers beautifully. He
keeps them going easy until the pinch
comes and then he drives them.
Beals Becker came to the front in a
bench all year waiting for chance. 1t
came when Red Murray was injured by
a pitched ball. From the minute he
donned a glove and went to the out
field Becker has been setting things
afire. Some of his catches actually
made the fans gasp He broke up a
game at the Polo grounds by his ter
rifle hitting and he repeated over In
Boston when he tied up the game in
the ninth inning with home run over
the left field fence Becker is a DARN g
base runner and there is not faster
man or better slider on the team.
~ think am on the right road" said
Clark Griffith manager of the Cincin-
natl Reds, after carefully mapping out
q base stealing campaign for the ball
ance of the season.
This base running thing is bound to
win and l am going to keep the boys
at it while their legs are good Get tn e
other fellows throwing and you can do
a lot of tricks with them. OF course
there are times when discretion must
be exercised; I don't recommend head
long base stealing when King or Ar
cher is up there behind the pan. They
might get even Bescher too often to
be enjoyable But take the general run
of catchers, and it pays to keep 'em
throwing.
This is the present status of the at
lacking part of baseball; base-running
has been so subordinated of recent
years that the infielders don't know
how to deal with lot of fast men
plunging at them all the time. Fact
they don't know what to do when man
after man, instead of waiting to be
batted around, comes charging down
the line. Catchers throw uncertainty in
f1e1ders take the throws and grope
around like catfish. You can steal all
the time if you only have a little nerve
1.-The spiking of infielders, | think is
largely the result of this uncertainty
and clumsiness. In the old days, when
men were stealing all the time, the
basemen were clever as cats, and real
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Omaha Aviation Meet

Omaha, Neb., July 24-Ten thousand
people today witnessed the second days
flights at the Omaha Aviation meet.
Eleven aeroplape flights were made
during the afternoon, a five mile race
between Glenn IL. Curtiss and ]. C. Mars
furnishing the most spectacular feature
of the day. Curtiss rose 200 feet in the
air and while at that height Mars sailed
away the two starting on even terms
Three times they flew around the big
field and finished with Curtiss slightly
III the lead.
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MAN AND WOMAN
ATTEMPT SUICIDE

st. Louis, July 24-Bound together
with two steel chains and fifteen feet
of rope and weighted with valise fill
ed with sand, two revolvers, an axe, an
oil stove and other junk to insure their
sinking, Brice Wommack, a wealthy
farmer of Troy, Mo-, and Mrs. Mollie
Anderson of st. Louis jumped from a
skiff into the Mississippi river here to-
day. They were rescued by people on
the bank and when brought to land
were revived and arrested.
Wommack is charged with the theft
of the skiff from which he and the
woman leaped. Mrs. Anderson Is in the
city hospital.
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CRIPPEN BELIEVED
TO BE ON MONTROSE

London, July 24.-According to the
latest reports received here by Scot
land Yard DR.. Hawley H. Crippen and
Ethel Leneve, as the Rev. Mr.. Robin
son and son, booked passage at the
last moment and boarded the steamer
Montrose which sailed from Antwerp
on July 20 for Montreal.
The original reports regarding the
sailing of Crippen and his companion
led the police to the belief that they
were passengers on board the Sandman
which left Havre on July IL for Mon
treal.
The steamer Laurentic. on which In
spector Dew Is passenger, sailed
from Liverpool yesterday Both the
Laurentic and Montrose are due to ar
rive at Montreal on July 80.
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New York, July 24.-If the forthcoming
census should show that the nation has
population of 10O,00O.OO0 the number of
passengers carried by the transit lines
of New York city for 10 months will still
be nearly IL times greater.
Statistics issued today by the public
service commission show that for the 10
months ending May last. 1,259, 126,S9S pas
sengers bought fares, an increase of
about 100000 over the corresponding
months last year. The figures are an elo-
quent explanation. of why New York is
spending $50 100000 for new subways and
still the outlay is admittedly inadequate.
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PRACTICE SHOOT
THIS AFTERNOON

AS preliminary work to the opening of
the tenth annual tournament of the Bir-
mingham Gun club tomorrow, practice
will be INDUCED in this afternoon at the
fair grounds.
The shoot will be attended by practi-
cally all the crack performers of the
state, and professionals representing the
several cartridge companies will be on
hand.
The members of the local club will en-
deavor to get away with the bulk of the
money and prizes, though among the
visitors will be several who. will give
them strong competition.
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New Orleans, July 24.-Further confir-
nation Of disturbed conditions reported
at Crbs. Honduras. recently. brought by
passengers arriving here on the steamer
Orleans today. The Orleans sailed from
Crba Thursday, at which time, 1t is said.
many soldiers were patrolling the town
under the direction of the governor of
Crba. The feeling of alarm and some
what turbulant situation were apparent
ly the outcome of rumors that former
President Bonilla was threatening to be-
gin a revolution. There had been no
actual uprising.
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VOLUNTEERS LAND
ON BkEITENSTEIN

New Orleans, July 24.-Nashvile de-
feated New Orleans today in ten innings
by punching hits off Breitenstein. This
resulted in four runs in the last inning
and was responsible for the victory.
Maxwell opened for the home team. He
was driven from the box in the first in
ming. Bretenstein was invincible ex-
cept in the last inning.
The locals hit Keupper freely but not
at opportune times. Viebahn and then
Perdue made their appearance and
pitched respectively for Nashville in the
tenth inning Score.
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soldiers Tnke Day OFF

Chattanooga, July 24.-Today was a day
of rest with the soldiers at Chickamauga,
and the camp was crowded with thou
sands of visitors. There were band con-
certs and devotional exercises by the
chaplains. Tomorrow the regular course
of instruction will be resumed and an
other sham battle will be arranged for
Thursday and Friday. The maneuvers
will end with a grand review Saturday.
after which the state troops will return
to their homes. The Seventeenth infantry
will hike through the country to their
home station, Fl Mcpherson, Atlanta.
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striker. Are Giving Trouble

Scranton, Pa, July 24-During riot
at Carbondale tonight between strike
breakers and striking section hands of
the Delaware and Hudson railroad one
man was shot and will probably die.
The men at work were attacked by
strikers, a majority of whom We're
Italians and fully two hundred shots
were exchanged. State police are ac-
cused by the strikers with having fired
the probable fatal shot and two Of them
were placed under arrest.
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Mourning Tor Murderer

Cairo. July 24.-( Especial )t-Large num-
bers of students of the government and
private schools are wearing black era
watts as sign of mourning for Wardani.
the murderer of Boutros Pasha.
Abaza Pasha. member Of the legisla-
tive council, who played leading part
in opposing the project for the extern
sion of the Suez canal concession In the
general assembly, will issue shortly re-
ply to Sir Eldon Gorst's last report.
Copies of this reply will be distributed to
members of the British and other Euro
pean parlitments.,
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Hottest Day I'm New York

New York, July 24-Although today
was the hottest or the year here, with a
maximum official temperature of "a, there
were only two deaths and less than a
dozen prostrations. Excessive humidity,
which reached maximum of SO, added to
the discomfort and drove the largest
crowds of the season to seek scanty relief
at the beaches.
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Sporting News
POINTERS TO RANDOM

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will be- called upon and then comes
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Paris, July 24--At Saint Cloud course
today, w. X. Vanderbilts Bats Delight
won the Prix de Norsey, at four and a
half furlongs. Frank Goulds Leremenado
finished second in the Prix Des Comets,
.two-year event at four and a half quar-
tcrs Mr.. Vanderbilt's Lahire was third.
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Five Deaths From Heat

Philadelphia. Pa, July 24-Fivc
deaths were reported today as being
due to the heat here. The maximum
temperature for the day was 90 degrees
at p. m. A breeze from the south
west lowered the humidity from so this
morning to Ga tonight.
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Summary-Hits, off Maxwell 2 in one
thind inning, Breitenstein 8 in 9 2-3 in
nings, Keupper In innings, Viebahn l
in one-third inning. Two base hit, Lynch,
Bay, Segel. Sacrifice hit, Seabaugh.
Bronkie, Lindsay, Wiseman. Double
play, Robe (unassisted) Stuck out,
Keupper /, Perdue 2, Breitenstein T.
Bases on balls. Keupper 2, Breitenstein l..
Bit by pitched ball, Breitenstein (Sea-
baugh), viebahn (Breitenstein). Passed
ball, Lafitte. Time, hours. Umpires,
Carpenter and Hart.
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Barcelona. July 24-At mass meet
ing held here tonight the coal men
numbering 1900 voted to go on strike
on Tuesday next. This is the ami
versary of last years revolutionary out
break. other unions represented at the
meeting agreed to Join in the strike II
the coalmens demands were not grant
cd