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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
WITHOUT AN ERROR
Frank Lakaff Only Three Eye
Player to Go Through Sea-
son Unscathed.
ONE OF THE WINNERS, TOO
official Averages for Season of 1910
! Fail to Explain Glass That
Islanders Showed.

Unusually prompt were the official
averages Of the Three-Eye league in
being compiled this fall. They were
prepared by John Hall of Quincy,
and show little variation from the
asst monthly averages given out.
They serve to again indicate the
high ability of Manager Tighe in put
iing the Islanders second with a team
that was not strong in either team
batting or team fielding and was not
any too numerously sprinkled with
Individual stars in either the field or
1t bat.
Manusch leads the Islanders with
The willow, having a percentage of
an even 800. He is one of five to
hnish 800 or better Paul Mclean of
springfield leads with 1916. The
pther strongest batters are Pierce
IF Danville, and Collins and Smith
pr Springfield.
Frank Lakaff is the only player
who went through the season with
put making an error. He took part
IN 80 games. Frank also stands
high among the pitchers with per-
fentage of games won. In fielding
Hartley of Springfield led the
eatchers, Lakaff of Rock Island the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
BY the Press Agent
"UNDER SOUTHERN SKIES"

Under Southern Skies,'' which
will be given at the Illinois theatre
Sunday, matinee and night. needs
no introduction ITO our theatregoers.
1t has been seen in this city and its
merits are so well known that the
announcement of its return is suf-
ficient to insure crowded house.
Under Southern Skies" has proved
the greatest in point OF popularity
and large houses, of all the recent
plays of southern life. 1t has had
seven seasons of high prosperity
and indications point to still greater
success for this, its eighth year upon
the road. Its story is a very strong
one that touches the heart and
rouses the sympathies of the spec
tator, while its natural scenes of de-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
Ih9 SS@EEhhe!at;re

helpful wife. OF course he gives her
the opportunity, and it is supposed
they lived ever happy afterwards. Tne
play abounds in Strong situations, and
in spots suggests The Thief" yet
there is a most careless ending of the
third act, when the husband, upon the
discovery of his wife's duplicity in Sc
cretly accepting financial aid from an
other man, in the presence of both.
after firing a revolver into the floor,
remarks Whats the use?" and has
tens from the scene, leaving his wife
alone with another man in her bou-
doir. 1t strikes one as though the au-
thor on reaching this point in the play
had grown tired and was anxious to
get the job of his hands as quickly as
possible. without reference to the con-
tinuity of plot. However, the play was
powerfully acted and handsomely
mounted, and it was enthusiastically
received. The stellar honors were
shared by Miss Doris Mitchell. as The
Spendthrift," and Lionel Adams as
the husband. Others in the excellent
ly balanced company were Albert
Sackett, Forrest E. Orr, Vivian Mar
tin, Lizzie Mccall, Grace Gibbs and
William H. Sullivan. The production
is owned by Frederick Thompson. It
will be seen this evening at the Bar
rymore, Moline.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
ROCK ISLAND ON
LONG AUTO ROUTE
Touring Club of America to Map Out
Road from New York to San
Frisco This Fall.

Rock Island is on the route of a
tour to be started Oct 10 under the
auspices of the Touring Club of
America for the purpose of laying
out a transcontinental automobile
route. A. L. Westegard, chairman
of the committee on tours, will
drive the car from New York to San
Francisco, and the route will be
1000 miles in length, passing
through II states. Accurate data
will be collected upon the character
of the roads, their dangerous points,
the bridging of the streams. accom-
modations of stopping places, ETC.,
the object being to compile the facts
for the benefit of those who later
wish to make similar trips across the
continent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
Reaching the ION

in any calling of life, demands a
vigorous body and a keen brain.
Without health there is no success.
But Electric Bitters is the greatest
health builders the world has ever
known. 1t compels perfect action
of stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels,
purifies and enriches the blood,
tones and invigorates the whole sys-
tenn and enables you to stand the
wear and tear of your daily work
after months of suffering from
kidney trouble" writes w. NJ. Sher-
man of Cushing, Me-, three bottles
Of Electric Bitters made me fell like
a new man" Fifty cents at all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
"THE sPENDTHRIFT."


Young folks contemplating marriage
are pointed a forceful moral in The
Spendthrift," a play from the pen of
Porter Emerson Browne, which was
given in its first tri-city presentation
at the Grand, Davenport, last evening,
before an audience of proportions tax
ing the capacity of the theatre The
Spendthrift' is a woman; a young
wife, preferring the companionship of
a poodle to motherhood; preferring the
glitter of the ball room, the patter of
the pink tea, the gayety of the boule-
ward and the excitement of the theatre
to the quiet OF a modest home and the
effectiveness of a devoted husband; a
woman who, when financial ruin faces
her husband, thinks he is growing cold
towards her WREN he admonishes her
TO reduce the family expense account.
and In her desperation to retain so
ciai front, borrows from a man ad.
mirer. although proving, when discov-
cred, that she had not sacrificed her
honor. The money is returned when
the "benefactor" is summoned to the
boudoir of 1.-The Spendthrift'' by the
latter upon command of her husband.
There is a temporary separation. The
wife, removed from the frivolities in
which she so long had participated,
sees the error of her way; the hus-
band, denied her companionship, real
ICES more than ever his love for her
He searches for her ana locates ner
in small, cheap fiat. She had gone
to work to earn her own way. They
are reunited; she admits that she was
wrong. and wants to make good as
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
Butter is Star at IlIini.

Champaign, ILL.,, Oct. Captain
Butter was the sensation of the Illi-
nois field practice yesterday. The
tall guard was invincible. He gain
ed yards on forward passes and was
not to be stopped when he ran with
the ball. The rooters were enthus-
iastic over the way the fast leader
performed. He was in great form
and materially assisted in the de-
feat of the freshmen by three touch
downs
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

licious comedy keep an audience in
a ripple of laughter. The Hallow-
e en- games and pumpkin dance make
every one feel young and gay with
the actors upon the scene, and are
this season made entertaining by
entirely new songs and dance figures.
New scenery and costumes have also
been provided by the management
and a thoroughly finished perform
ance is given by capable actors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
MONTGOMERY Will Not Paw.

Montgomery, Ala, Oct 6.-Presi-
dent E. B. Joseph of the Montgom-
cry baseball club, when shown the
Kavanaugh statement from Little
Rock said: ANY fine imposed by
President Kavanaugh because of the
JUL information will not be paid
Moreover, the franchise will remain
with Montgomery next year, for
am confident that the league direc-
tors will support our side"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
CAPTAIN is ELECTED
Conner A. Lynch Made Head of the
Drury Academy Eleven.

Aledo. Ill, Oct. 6.-Connor Ar
thur Lynch of Chicago yesterday was
elected manager of the William and
Vashti college 1911 baseball team.
From present indications the Mer-
Ger county institution will be repre-
sented by an unusually strong team.
Seven of last years veterans are in
college and will be available.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has
become famous for it's cures of
coughs, colds, Group and influenza.
Try it when in need. 1t contains no
harmful substance and always gives
prompt relief. Sold by all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
Sterling Club Gets land.

Sterling, H., Oct. 5.-Tne Sterling
Gun club has leased 700 acres of
land along Lake Mississippi, east of
this city, and established a hunting
preserve. The clubhouse soon will
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
TY COBB LEADS LAJOlE
Official Averages Show That Tiger
Player Is 8 Points in Front.

10y CT - . II OIAItN' III IT OIIUs
Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. Averages
compiled by the News shows that
Tyrus Cobb of the Detroit team is
leading Napoleon Lajoie of the
Cleveland team in the race for the
batting championship and the auto
mobile offered as a prize to the lead
ing batter. The figures as published
give Cobb 492 times at bat and 1877
hits for an average of $50 and ia
joie $50 times at bat and PIP hits
for an average of 1872. Unofficial
averages heretofore gave Lajoie a
mark of 1915 and Cobb an average
of .374.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

RESULTS YESTERDAY
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
st. Louis-Pittsburg no game, rain.
No other games scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Cleveland, So; Detroit, ga.
Washington, s; Boston, 5 (called
in ninth, darkness).
New York, Z; Philadelphia, 4.
No other games scheduled.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS

1t will work wonders for you. By
strengthening and toning the diges-
tive system, the cause of your trou-
bles is quickly removed. 1t is also
for Indigestion, Costiveness, Bilious
ness, Stomach Ills and Malaria, Fe-
yer and Ague.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

centage of .667; Couchman won IT
and lost II, his percentage being
.607; Cavet won II and lost IA, his
percentage being .545; Queisser of
Rock Island won 8 and lost 10, hav-
ing a percentage of 500.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
ILLINOIS BOOKINGS.

Oct. 9-"Under Southern Skies"
matinee and evening.
Oct. 13-"The Flirting Princess"
Oct. 15-Grace Baird, matinee and
evening.
Oct. 23-"The Lottery Man"
Oct 24-"The Pinkerton Girl
Oct 25-Christian Science lecture.
Oct. 26-William Norris, in My Gin.
derella Girl"
Oct 2S-"The Rosary"
Oct. 30-"What a Girl Can Do" mat
inee and evening.
Oct. 31-NoV. 5-The Flints.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
MANY PERSONS
SUFFER DAILY

from distress after eating. They
have Heartburn, Bloating, Belching,
Smothering sensations, etc. If you
are among that number let us per-
suade you to try
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
GUST MONTGOMERY CLUB?
President Kavanaugh of the South
ern League Issues UItimatum.

ern League Issues UItimatum.
Little Rock, Ark. Oct. Owing
to the failure of the officials of the
Montgomery baseball club to pay a
fine of $3.50 assessed against
them President Kavanaugh of the
Southern Baseball league announces
he will declare the franchise of the
club forfeited. The fine was i'm
posed following testimony by Pitch
er JUL that the club had been Sc
cretly paying him s25 a month sal
airy above the amount fixed in his
contract.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
CHICAGO AGAIN VICTOR

Team by Score of 3 to 1.
Toxic Oct. 6.-Before 10000 srec-
tators who included American Ambas-
sador OBrien, the University of Chi
cago baseball team today defeated the
Keio university nine, 8 to 1. Score:
R. H. E.
Chicago 6 .
Keio NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
PICKED UP ON THE BATTLEFIELD

The Chicago White Sox will train
next spring at Mineral Wells, Tex.
No more Pacific coast trips for Co.
miskey.
Oct. IL the Illinois-Missouri
league is to meet at Pekin for the
purpose of recognizing the circuit
The vacancies left by the withdrawal
of Jacksonville and Macomb are to
be filled and Taylorville and either
Streator or Havana are favored.
Wednesday, Oct. 10, has been Sc
lected as the date of the fall meet
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

ing of the Three-Eye league. Pres
ident Tearney has issued the call.
The sessions will be held at the
Palmer house, Chicago, and the
magnates will see one or more of the
worlds series games.
Pete Lister of this city, who fn-
ished the last season with Atlanta,
figures in a trade in which he and
Pitcher Buckfower are given to
Chattanooga for Outfelder McLaur-
in. Otto Jordan, the former Brook
Ign infielder, has been appointed
manager of Atlanta.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

be erected and wild rice and celery
sown for wild game.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-06
CALL LETTER BOXERS
TO SHOW TRUE METTLE

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5.-[Editor
Herald: Here's "up to- Il 'practi-
caP' Letter Boxers-those matter of
fact people who from time to time
pooh-pooh topice like heredity and
environment and matter versus spirit
as being too abstract and nebulous to
be of general interest, but who yet
are themselves too slow to start-or
even to push along when started-a
real live issue that touches every citi-
zen of slender means in his most vul-
nerable spot-his pocket, What, for ex-
ample, could come closer home to the
everyday interests Of the average citi-
zen than the matter of public library
service or the question Of honest treat
ment Of citizens by municipal official
dorn--as, for instance, that of the water
department?
Yet when the first of these ques-
tions was raised recently in the Let
ter Box, what further contributions
did it draw? Sor.e two or three letters
only, though one hears verbal COM
plants on every hand. But it is every
one swapping out his or her own petty
personal grievance or annoyance, and
hardly anyone with public spirit
enough to !4elp i, a concerted express
sion Of opinion-the only thi want
Similar comment applies in relation
to the matter now being ventilated
by Val Stone-that old practice ESQ
insanitary as we'll as dishonesty of
turning off a consumers water and
then eXtorting a dollar to resume sup
ply. 1 know from personal experience
how widespread is the disapproval of
this, yet 1 doubt if many will stir
themselves to voice their feelings in
the Letter Box. No, the average in
dividual will rather let the matter
drift till it comes his turn to be
caught" Then he will explode a lit
tie blue lam ouage in the privacy of
his home, pay the eXtorted dollar like
m-(say! what is French for IAN
easy m. % and confide to his wife or
his neXt-door neighbor his complete
agreement with Val Stones letter in
The Herald Instead of writing to
The Herald to back up the demand for
a change! However busy, or however
backward in letter writing, he might
drop a card saying ditto" to V. S. on
that water question. Now, then, YOU
who read this, it's up to you, if you
understand the matter
The contention of Mr.. Stone seems
to me un, swerable, when he points
out that the turning off of a citizens
water has absolutely no excuse as an
eXpedient to secure the department
against loss, since the debt is charged
against the property, not the person.
and can thus always be collected with
out legal suit, by simply Withholding
the supply till arrears are paid. But
cutting off should only be permissible
after repeated and extended notice
on sanitary grounds. The present
method Is danger to the public and
a disgrace to municipal ownership.
while the dollar graft is a monument
TO our clvic rawness--a manipulation
of mingled cupidity and stupidity.
WILLOUGHBY SMART.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-06

one thing more than another the new
city council should do for the public
it is to pass an ordinance which will
protect the public against reckless
motorists, and that, too, an ordinance
which will prohibit, and not broom
straw ordinance. If there was an ordi-
nance making $500 the minimum fine
for exceeding the speed limit the close
of this year would chronicle rs per
cent less deaths from reckless driv-
ing than last year.
There should also be an ordinance
requiring all motorists to have their
car numbers made on metal of some
kind and of a regulation size, and, not
on pasteboard, sometimes tied to the
end of the spring of their machines,
making it impossible to read the num-
ber when the car is running.
The greater number Of taxpayers of
Los Angeles are not fortunate enough
to own automobiles, and the writer
believes they should have the proper
protection from those who do own
them when they fail to have just
regard for the lives of their fellow
men by running their machines so fast
as to ieopardize the lives of pedes-
trians: it appears it is high time for
the CITY council to step in and call
halt with an ordinance which will pro-
hiloit one that is definite and one, too,
that will cause the motorist to sit up
and take notice, thereby reducing the
death rate during the present year
!. less than rs per cent,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-06
FREIGHT CARRYING
FRANCHISES

NM HlLE every part of Mayor AL
wv eNander's excellent message to
the city council deserves coIn-
mendation, there is one portion to
which we particularly desire to call
attention. Under the head of fran
chises" the mayor directs the attention
of the city council to the fact that
one line of suburban electric railway
is using the streets of the city with
out any franchise whatever, and that
other lines of street railroads are with
out authority and in violation of the
city law using the streets for carrying
freight upon their lines.
The indulgence of complacent city
councils and city officials who have
been more interested in favorlng pub
lie utilities than in benefting the peo-
pie has in the past facilitated the use
Of public property by public service
corporations without any thought Of
remuneration to the owners of such
property, the people. That day has
passed in Los Angeles for at least two
years to come, and, we trust forever,
and the public service corporations
should be made to understand the fact
that when they use public property
for the purpose of making an income
out of the same, they are as much
bound to pay the public a fair return
for the use of that property as any
citizen is bound 10 pay to them a fair
return upon the property OF a corpora
tion that he uses.
The privilege of carrying freight. over
the street car lines is one Of immense
value. Properly authorized and prop
erly regulated, it should be productive
of a large income to the corporations
exercising it, and it is something for
which they are morally as much bound
to pay as they are to pay for the cleo
tricity which they use or the cars
which they operate.
The unauthorized nd Illegal use Of
the streets of the city for carrying
freight by electric railway companies
should be stopped at once, and should
be prevented until an arrangement
fair to both the railroads and the pub
lie can be entered into; an arrange
ment by which, in return for most
valuable use of public property, the
electric roads shall pay the public
what that use is worth.
Now that we have a city council
which for two years will be interested
in governing the city of Los Angeles
for the benefit Of the people who own
It and who compose its citizenship and
pay it's taxes, and not for the benefit
of various public service corporations,
we fully anticipate that this course
will be followed.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-06
NEWSPAPERS

\. excellent criticism of journalism
n appears in the American Journal
IA of Sociology. The critic says: THE
yellow newspapers have had a terribly
demoralizing effect on the presentation
Of news and it's display. Everything is
sacrificed to liveliness. Crazy, silly and
grotesque headlines are employed, and
reporters, special writer's and critics
become addicted to what has been
called the catastrophe style-striving
after bold, picturesque, impressive
language"
We may criticise this criticism by
saying no language can be more i'm
pressive than the fact it describes. But
we agree some papers seek to make
small and unimportant facts impressive
by decorating them with language that
is meant to be impressive, but becomes
merely grotesque.
To be crisp, clear and clean is the
only aim of writer's for Los Angeles
Herald. No yellow sensationalism is
permitted to disfgure the columns of
this paper. Some facts are in them
selves sensational. No attempt is made
to tone down such facts; because to
underestimate a news story is as TN
businesslike as to overestimate it.
Newspapers today are handling so
much larger bulk of news than they
did few years ago that they can
afford to be discriminating
There is no excuse but laziness or old
fogyism for long, rambling stories,
which. like the old-fashioned game of
consequences, begin with an adjective
fit for a gentleman, introduce a (de-
scribed) lady, and take the pair through
a prosaic wilderness of commonplaces,
beginning in tedium and ending in
inanity.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-06
BIRDS WILL SURVIVE

M e think the statement flying ma
wv chimes will kill off the birds Of
the air is a canard. Nature
does not treat her proteges in such
summary fashion. The history of the
world is one of continual readjustment
and reconciliation, otherwise there
would be no world to write about.
Every new brood of birds will show
more familiarity with aeroplanes and
dirigibles. AT first the steamships
crossing the ocean scared the gulls
and the Mother Carey's chickens. But
any man who has made an ocean
voyage will tell you the sea birds will
sometimes alight on the rigging of the
tunnels, while it is not uncommon to
see a row of them swinging on a cross
yard in a heavy sea.
So why should the airships terrorize
the birds? If birds can adjust them
selves to the appearance and the
noises of great ocean steamers, they
certainly will reconcile themselves to
airships; and ere long the aviator may
have inquisitive or tired birds for fell
low voyagers during part of his fight.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-06
PROSPERITY

N REAT prosperity was shown by
tT yesterdays bank clearings, and
W the record of business activity in
Greater Los Angeles reached high
mark. Bank clearings amounted to$3,-
166, 1924, compared with $2,264, 454.45 In
1909. The increase was 1902, ,266.79, and
the total was within $500 of the highest
clearings for one day in the history of
the clearing house.
Business activity in Los Angeles ex-
tends to every branch of trade, indus
try and commerce. Building is brisk.
The outlook is splendid. With good
government, good weather and good
people Greater Los Angeles will con-
tinue TO grow and to prosper in the
good old way, the Los Angeles way.
Every citizen has a right to be proud of
Greater Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-06

task long before the belated and dis
gruntled representatives Of newspapers
other than Los Angeles Herald had ar
rived on the scene. Consciousness of
tardiness is probably responsible for
the extraordinary injection of spleen
by the morning Republican daily paper
into what surely should have been an
unvenomed, fair and truthful account
Of a rescue the details of which The
Herald was proud te be able to ehron-
icle with the fidelity of an actual eye
witness.