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tas Sure to Win Majority Of Games From Connie Macks Team
CAN'T JUDGE ATHLETICS BY
SHOWING AGAINST ALL-STARS
Mack's Team Likely to Again Lose Ma
jority of Games McInnis Sure
to Be Missed.

beats the champions with the ordinary
team behind him, and he should find il
easier with the added strength that the
All-Stars will furnish.
Chief Bender did not exert himself in
the four innings that he pitched. He cut
loose now and then. just to try out his
arm. hut he took matters comparatively
easy most of The time. This was true OF
Plank and Coombs, too.
Ed Bang. sporting editor of the Cleve-
land News, Witnessed the game Bang
will make the trip with the All-Stars, and
then go to the worlds series. 1t is his
opinion that the Athletics will beat the
Giants, and he also brings the confirma-
ton OF the report that George StovaH is
through in Cleveland and that Harry
Davis will be in charge there next sea-
son.
Bang sees a real contender in the Maps
next season. He doubts their ability to
beat out the Athletics, but he is sure
THAT the Maps will finish right behind
them
1t makes a lot of difference in a play
er's work if he is with a strong COM
bination. Every one of the Nationals
looked exceptionally good yesterday, be-
cause they were with the strongest team
they have played with in some time.
Milan, Elberfeld Henry, Mcbride and
Gessler all did their share to defeat the
Athletics.
Henry handled Mullen's delivery per-
fectly. No attempt was made to steal on
him, so that he did not have a chance to
do any pegging.
For two innings there was little or
nothing doing in the game, and then the
Stars broke loose. Mullen got life when
Davis dropped his little fly after a des-
perate effort. Milan sent the sphere to
the left field fence for two bases, Mullen
stopping at third. Then Cobb distinguish
ed himself by hitting the second ball
pitched far over the right field fence,
three runs resulting. Milan singled and
stole in the fifth and scored on Gessler's
timely drive.
In the seventh Cobb took occasion to
show up Jack Barry, who up to this time
had played brilliantly at short. The Tiger
star tripled to deep center and Barry got
the return throw. Cobb just rounded third
as Barry received the ball. He baffied
Barry by stopping and apparently return
ing to the bag. Suddenly he dashed for
the plate. There did not seem to be a
chance for him to reach there. but Barry
threw over Thomas head and Cobb
scored.
In the fifth Thomas hit over the right
field fence for the Circuit. Lapp tripled
In the seventh, but wheo he tried to score
On Lords fly to Cobb, the latter threw
him out at the plate. Henry making a
pretty play on the ball.
In the ninth Murphy tripled and scored
on a put-Out. The score:
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of race horses never
made a bet in their
lives, and follow
sport in all it's
branches for the
pure love of the
game.
OF course, in rae
ing it is practically
impossible to elimi-
nate gambling en-
tirely, or rather the
backing of horses
fn yx-in PACING &c q
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Reds and Cards Split.

CINCINNATI, October 1O.-Cincinnati
and st. Louis broke even in the final
double-header of the season here yester-
day, Cincinnati winning the first game, 8
to 2. and st. Louis duplicating the per-
Torrance in the second contest.
Both games were poorly played, while
the pitching was ragged.
The smallest crowd that ever attended
a double header in this city was present.
Score:
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In Venezuela our national sport has
taken firm root ard the natives are
playing it almost as well as we are
The umpires down there are a wiser
bunch than ours. for they take out ac-
cident policies before every game, ac-
cording to Armada Marsons, the Cuban
player on the Reds.
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Concerning Batting.

The fact that so many players are 800
batters in the Athletic organization is
held to be an argument in favor of the
batting of the Athletics as opposed to
the Giants. But the American League
records show quite coiclusively that the
pitchers of that organization have not
been so effective against the batters as
have the pitchers of the National League
against their batters. Are the American
League pitchers less skillful than the Ma
tional League pitchers, or are the Ameri-
can League batters more powerful than
the National League batters? There is a
problem which stumps at once the en-
thusiastic fan who thinks that he has
good argument based ION the figures"
It is probable, when the official figures
are published I'm the base ball guides,
that ii will be found the American League
pitchers, because so many young men
were tried during the year, and for the
reason that so many of the old fellows
had a hard time to get started. were not
so much a factor against the batters in
1911 as they have been In some other
seasons. This is furnished for the in
formation of those who are inclined to
become topheavy on the record question.
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Doian. the new infielder secured by the
Highlanders. is being touted as a sure
winner next year. There Is talk now OF
trading Jack knight and Gardner away
for a good second baseman.
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Cubs Win the Last.

CHICAGO. October 10.-The local Ma
tional League season was brought to a
close yesterday afternoon in a ten-in
ming game. Chicago defeating Pittsburg.
6 to 3.
Robinson, who relieved Leifield in the
ninth. passed Sheckard to start the tenth.
and the pitchers wild throw, linked with
Schulte's third hit, scored the winning
run. Score:
R.H. z.
Chicago 900 3 0O2.o o 1-8 IL .
Pittsburgh. -. o 40 o 90 90 o. 10 )
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By John B. Foster.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. October 10.-Experience
has shown that it is folly to undertake to
prove the value of base ball mines in a
series between two teams by compari-
son of records.
If all conditions We're equal in leagues,
and if all managers were uniform in
method. records might have their worth.
The principal argument which records
advance is that certain players of a GER
tain league are superior to other play
ers of the same league in like number
Of games which have been played by all.
When records are held forth as an ar
gument to prove that the Giants are
stronger than the Athletics. or that the
Athletics are stronger than the Giants.
they are not worth the white paper which
they occupy.
There are no like conditions between
the National League and the American
League except that both leagues are
governed by the same base ball rules.
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Gambling Like Business.

or, Tor that matter, or inSuring risks on
lives and ships.
Gambling Like Business.
After all, in plain English, an insurance
company CANDLES on life and risks on a
business basis just the same as the own
err of a Derby horse. puts money on his
horse in the nope Of It's winning and re-
coupling him for some of his outlay
l think France has got betting down to
its proper level The totalization system
there is absolutely perfect No one can
hurt himself, as every bet must be made
in ready money, and you bet with the
government, SO your money is safe. A
certain percentage of the gross receipts
is devoted to charitable institutions and
the balance is given to the advancement
of scientific horse breeding.
Much Betting in England.
In England there is a large amount of
betting On foot ball matches, but it is
strictly illegal and mostly conducted from
agencies in Holland or Switzerland /
altogether disapprove of betting on foot
ball, and similarly on base ball. On the
latter game I understand there is little
betting
But the plain fact is that people will
gamble In some form or another If they
can't bet On horses they will bet on
wheat or oats or coal or hogs. and where
is the difference? I think what a gov
eminent ought to do is to legaiize it in
some form, as it is done in France, and
then half the evils are swept away.
In Italy public gaming is conducted
by the government in every departments
in the form of weekly lotteries, perfectly
fair and perfectly managed, SO that the
poorer classes can have their little gam
BILE of a sum as low as. l believe, even
10 cents. and yet have chance of win
ming quite large sum.
Gambling Like Begging.
/ hope it will not be supposed by this
article that / am a confirmed gambler.
/ gamble but little = question put to
me by my little daughter whea abe ut
eight years old set ire thinking and
have hardly ever ge;nbled since Her
question was:
Daddy, what is the difference between
gambling and begging
I have never been able to answer the
question There is a certain amount of
horse sense iii il after al, For 1. beggar
does no work and creates nothing end
yet expects TO get money. Equally
gambler produces nothing. and il he is
only gambler Dies no real work and
also hopes to get something.
How the child came to evolve such
question l don't know. But wisdom
comes from c.lild's ;-iou:,l. and there
was certainly a purpose in her question
and / have never been keen on gambling
since All the same, l look upon it as a
necessary evil and therefore better under
proper control.
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Umpire Evans OF the American
League and Umpire Brennan OF the
National League have been appointed
to officiate at the games between the
Maps and the Reds for the Ohio state
championship.
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business the same as any other business,
and owners in many cases must make
their stables pay. And for the life of me
I cannot see the difference between put
ting your money on an animal that has
cost you an enormous lot of money to
rear and train and buying a large amount
of mining stock. in some one else's mine,
or, for that matter, Of insuring risks on
lives and shins
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= Walter Johnson will be pitted against
the Athletics today. He has had a long
rest and is in great trim, that the
chances are he will score another vic
tory over the Mackmen. Johnson usually
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beats the champions with the ordinary
team behind him, and he should find it
easier with the added strength that the
All-Stars will furnish.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-03
Or. Smith Baker on Prohibition.

have lived in three high license
| cities where what is called permission
with regulation under license has had
| tie best possible opportunity to prove
its value if 1t had any, and III eacn
city drunkenness has increased 1t
does not do away with dives, pocket
peddling or kitchen bar-rooms. Tor IN
each of these high license cities, they
| were as common as III Portland. Men
who will be hypocrites and violate the
law under prohibition, viii also be
| hvpocrites and viola tie it under license.
You cannot license an evil without in
creasing it. Suppose high license
should become the law in Portland
with one saloon to each one thousand
people. or fifty open saloons in the city
protected by law. That man is either
weak in brain or corrupt in heart VINO
says il would not increase, drunken-
ness They would be an increasing
temptation to the young, and peril
TO those who are struggling for self
control. The saloon not only gratifies
those who are really slaves 20 tne
habit, but makes new drunkards It Is
a school of vice and a recruiting office
of Satan I have seen more drunken
ness in three months in license cities
thdll III ten years III TIL cNtii IN
der recreant officers of the law.
| am in favor of prohibition because
lit REMOVES OPEN TEMPTATION.
This is of unspeakable Importance to
every respectable man who considers
young men coming to a city for en-
lpioynlent. Take Congress street as an
| illustration, reaching as 1t does for
| quite two miles through the city, the
great thoroughfare with all kinds of
dwellings stores. shops and offices. but
| a stranger can walk its whole length
and not see the intimation of a saloon.
| Our boys can travel it without temp
tatiou; You cannot walk one quarter OF
mile through a like street in any Ii
cense city without gilded saloon with
all its attractions publicly inviting
young men TO come in.-Dr. Smith Ba-
ker
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lions numbered about, 5000 a5e syvssre in
s1ins ranging from IS cents TO soVvV
If Is ndanred to use the mones IN
such d way that II will bring the city :
Indebtedness within the limit. Wnen
II will be possible to refund the entire
remaining debt at very nucn foWer
rate Of interest than is now being paiu.
The result win be a saving of szo,eeo
per annun, in interest charges alohe.
aud with the reduction in the expenses
of the police department. together wttn
other reasonable economies, and the
natural increase in valuation. the pros
poets are that Everett win soon ma
herself better off financially as wen as
morally through the abolition OF the
saloons.
Best of all perhaps is the fact tnat
the authorities appear to be enforcing
the law vigorously and impartialiy.
There may be an honest difference OF
opinion Us TO the wisdom of prohioit-
inc saloons in cities where a very con-
siderable part of the population de-
sire to detain them. but there can De
no question that such law II once
placed on the statute books. should De
enforced :"
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tiousness, and license thievng Should
we out Pompeii Pompeii in the matter OF
door signs and notices. Should bul
fights. prize fights and gladiatorial con
tests be supported BY public or private
subscription that our youth may learn to
resist temptation to cruelty? What
schools in immortality should be estab-
lishod in our midst? How many cadets
should be authorized to recruit for the
white slave trade? How many courte-
Fans should be permitted to work at their
vocation in our streets? How much lib
erty should be given to roues in our
homes?
Our writer admits that the time is not
quite ripe for this change 1 think so.
too. The fact is that the standard of
morals among the people cannot be kept
higher than that of the law. Nor will
much be done privately to establish right.
if it be granted that the State must for
ever buttress and commend wrong Pri-
vate admonition and example against any
evil would be helpless against such a
public entrenchment of it. The common
law itself would come tumbling down,
with all its safeguards of our rights. if
every decision of the courts in accord
with it should be set aside by statute
law.
Legislat ion may do much to supplement
and assist private precepts and private
examples that make for good. But little
progress toward the good can be made
with counteracting law in the way
Neither from private life nor from public
morals can the bad be eliminated by per
hitting it. The Individual moral sense.
Judgment and reason must look after the
former. the law must attend to the
latter.
Very trule- yours.
r-r,t-rn r,crt
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Is All Good Wrong?

"Wel. If that view is sound. the prayer
that learned a the knees of our
saiuted mothers must have been a mis-
translation aud it's closing petition should
be made to read lead us not into temp
tation that we may avoid evil" Again.
If that view is sound, all other prohibit
lions ought to go as well as that of the
liquor traffic. 1t is no less applicable to
the former than to the latter. But it is
n complete reversal of the theory that
law should commend what is right and
forbid what is wrong, should make 1t as
easy as possible to do the former and as
difficult as possible to do the latter. And
as private influence and public policy
should be in harmonious coordination.
bank vaults should be abandoned and
door locks should be removed. No father
should forbid his son to do wrong. No
mother should insist that her daughter
do right.
If this new system is to be established
If private virtues are hereafter to be
cultivated and strengthened as a muscle
is developed by putting constantly in
creasing strain upon il, who shall decide
for us how far those in training. to be-
come moral athletes, should be strained,
either in their formative or perfected
periods? just how many gambling
houses, brothels. policy shops and sa-
looms. in a given community, would
prove sufficient for the tyro in virtue.
and how many more should be provided
To further strengthen those who had
overcome lesser tnstalltlents? What sa-
lacious signs and pictures should be pro-
vided along our streets, for the novices,
aud how much more alluring should they
be made for the more advanced classes?
Should We copy Sparta and legalize ncen-
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\ I auHOle again.
1.-The advocates of prohibition,
having heen allowed 80 years or.
more in which to test their RENE
dy. and having had but very im-
perfect success with it, should not,
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II was cured Of diarrhoea by one dose
of Chamberialn's Collie. Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy" writes NJ E. Gebhardt.
Oriole, Pa. There is nothing better For
sale by all dealers.
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A Great Moral Influence.

It may be noted that had there been
no constitutional prohibition Of it. no
legislature elected since 1855. with the
possible exception of that elected last
fall. would have substituted license for
prohibition. And just as the author fails
Ito see that the prohbitory amendment
is now or ever has been of the slightest
benefit to the cause of prohibition, l fan
to see how it has or can work any harm
to any interest in or out of the state,
save that of the liquor traffic. the ex-
ploitation by which. of the state. 1t may
have possibly postponed for year. But
il does have great moral influence as
expressing the opinion of a great state
that the liquor traffic is so injurious to a
people that it ought to be suppressed.
And only unborn babes can fail TO know
that its abrogation win be heralded to the
world as an expression by the people OF
this state that that trade is benehclal
and ought to be permitted.
From the letter again:
"Prolsbition has been the settled
policy of this State for more than
80 years. AS a means to the end de-
sired, has it been so successful in
suppressing intemperance that it's
0lNpfdltS lidNf just iFf't'''h
proud of il. and to assert positively
chat II is the only or or even the
best remedy? To many it seems
that all that it's advocates can claim
fol- it is that, in their opinion, coli
ditions MIGHT have been worse.
that intemperanee MIGHT have
been more prevalent had the law
permitted the sale of liquor than
they have been under the prohibit
tory law. On the other hand, the
failure of prohibition as prac-
teal measure for the promotion
of temperance, has been sufficient
~ pronounced to make many per
sons who are as earnest as you in
their desire to suppress intemper-
anee. doubt the wisdom of prohibit
ton as practical means to that
end
Evidently the author of the letter
does not think that prohibition has
been Of benefit to the state. / do,
If the same tests were applied To the
Decalogue that the opponents and some
of the friends Of prohibition apply 10
the latter, the former, in view Of the
length of time its prohibitions have
been the organic law of Christendom
might have shown to have fallen as
short of complete success as has the
latter. But I might hesitate to set my
opinion against his. did ] not believe
| that mine is in accord with that Of a
vast majority of the agencies and in
Huences that are actively interested in
| the efforts to promote the well-being OF
| the State and is in line with the re-
corded testimony of two generations OF
| the most prominent public men of our
| state from some of whom | shall quote
| later. And I prefer that my views
| should be consonant with theirs
than that they should elicit the APP
prevail of the American Brewers Asso-
citation, and be circulated at its ex-
pense"
quote again:
1.-THE advocates of prohibition.
having heen allowed 50 years or.
| more in which to test their rene
dy. and having had but very inn
| perfect success with it, should not,
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Not a Refornatory Measure.

The prohibtorv law was pever intended
as reformatory measured Incidentally
il has done am immense amount of good
in that and in a preventive way It was
not designed to deal with drunkenness.
Other laws provide for the drunkard
our friend thinks that the liquor traffic is
not ''inherently criminal at alt" Well, If
that which tends everywhere and always
to produce evils. many and multiform. is
nor inherently criminal. the law can
make it actually so. He thinks that 50
years of prohhtory policy has not
remedied it. and everyone who knows
about it at all knows that the history
and results OF several hundreds of years
of license. abuudautly prove that it is
impossible to satisfactorily curb it or
regulate il. And as the testimony of cen
turtles is to the effect that evil is insep-
arabic from it, to all intents and pur-
poses the traffic may be said to be "in-
herently evil" And the combination fur
nishes a legal. moral aud reasonable basis
for its prohibition, as Inconsistent with
the general good. That is the ground up
on which prohibition stands And while
IT has not suppressed all, it has prevented
much No one can doubt this--T do not
say deny--who has compared the country
towns and villages of Maine with similar
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that amendment, the Legislature elected
upon another issue last fall. would have
enacted q license law last winter [ so
believe. though / know that there We're
members of the majority of that body
who would have vigorously opposed such
action Amendments of laws relating to
the liquor traffic are very common They
were frequent in Maine before license
was abandoned. That is also true today
in every state where license obtains. The
friends of the liquor traffic are constant
ly suing for more freedom. They are
asking for permission to sell on Sundays
in theaters. near churches, sehoolhouses
and so on. Almost as constantly its OPP
ponents are seeking to impose more re-
straints.
1 find in the letter that the amend
ment
Served only to show that the advo-
Gates of prohibition had no abiding
faith in our system of popular gov
eminent"