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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-02

Sacredam
 No sooner was that little ~ roast out of our mouth than the ba'ohs turned on the Pels like a hungry heh on grub worm. . Ana to date Birmingham has won -,ora eames than it has lost on the present road trip, and the teams played are according to percentages, the best in the league.
 And 1t is a certainty that on tho trip they will make q least an even break.
 And it is quite possible that Bir- mingham will win this afternoon. It is reasonable to presume that the Bar ons will hit either Bretenstein or Kla- witer and their chances of victory -.e- pend on how well Wagner holds the Pels.
 Mile sacre chocons What game was that yesterday
 In the first scene one beholds MT. veasey young and suple and ambi- . tious, moving the Barons down as if they were reeds.
 One held his breath in amazement as the young Pelican finger whiffs Bill McGilvray three times in. "a row. How k that "spitball' must have come squirm- ing and twisting to the patei And In that first scene one beheld Bert Maxwell earnestly working along. fully determined to fling the harpoon into the flesh of his old manager.
 And then the -Pelicans put over q runner, and but for marvellous throws by McBride would have put over an- other brace.
 And then in the seventh MT. Veasey weakened just a trifle, and Mcbride swatted a double to right and took third on an error. Elliott's fly to left opened the plate for the first Baron run-that which tied the score.
 Then came the ninth.
 Tonnerre de Dieu! McGilvray, who had famed three times in a row, con nected with the first ball thrown and it went to right for a couple. On John sons out the "bald eagle" took third, and Elliott was again on the spot with a smashing drive to deep center. On the sacrifice McGilvray scored the sec ond run.
 And then Maxwell, on that quick and treacherous return of his, sat Dock Johnston down to drink of ice water But Hyder Barr cut loose a single to cen fer, and Birmingham fans who listened |, to the ticking of the wires twisted un- easily in their seats. But Manush died on a fly to Molesworth. And then the Barons had to put the mighty Callahan to rest before they could retire with the laurels.
 The last of the Pelicans lifted a long fly to Mcbride, and Frank threw the sponge into the ring. This Maxwell is marvellous pitcher. Hi is better, it seems. than he was in that first summer, when, wearing a Montgom- cry uniform, he broke into the Southern league.s
 There is hardly a doubt but that he will
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even to the aged weather marking of

even to the aged weather marking of the surface.
 If there is anything the museum can not get in the original form, from a rare trilobite to a Corinthian fresco. 1t can turn Hendley with the original. and he can make an imitation that would fool an expert. It Is curious trade. this legitimatized faking, and the only reason for not extending the account and telling of some of the other remark able things that have been done in the venerable institution, is to prevent the impression getting abroad that there is nothing genuine on exhibition there. The geuine generally outweigh the in- itation antiquities, but there are a few antiquities that cannot be made while you wait.
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Travel on InstalIment Plan

From the Kansas City Journal.
 Count McGowan of Atchson has a new scheme which he expects to put into effect Why not sell trips to all parts of the country on the installment nlan?v he asks. You can buy almost anything on the installment plan, and why not trips? If a man would pay sew eral dollars a week for a year his ex- penses would be paid for on long trip. or, If he is a good reliable man he could take the trip and then pay out on it. There are millions of persons in If they could pay for them on the in-
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POINTERS TO RANDOM

get another trial in the big show, and the. chances are that some club will buy him before the drafting season opens.
 If We owned the Birmingham club we would trade Maxwell for no other pitcher in the league at the present time, and we are free to admit that we have a fondness. for Covaeskie and Benton and Hess and young Frank Allen.
 Tuesday Maxwell pitched a marvellous game against Montgomery, holding the hard-rapping Billil1ens scoreless in 1S in nings Yesterday he pitched marvellous game against New Orleans, holding the hard hitting Pelcans to one run in nine in- ninss.
 In two games therefore opposing teams
 Maxwell is in superb form, and the
 Pelican fans arc roasting" poor old Charlie Frank for letting the Texas es- cape him.
 And while we think of 1t, young Veasey was once the property of Bir- mingham, having been obtained from Meridian in the Cotton States terri tory
 We do not believe that Veasey Is a first-class pitcher, but from the indi- cations yesterday, he will very soon be-
 The Southern league is little too fast to serve as a training school for youngsters, but Frank, with lead of 100 points, can afford to take such chances
 Yesterdays effort was the best that Veasey has made since joining the Pel- jeans. He has pitched several good games, but only one superb battle-and he lost that.
 If the Barons had failed to win that game yesterday the Lookouts this morning would be breaking bread from the same counter with them. | If the Barons lose today the clubs will be paired, but the Barons will have an opportunity to win some games on home grounds next week and should forge ahead again. Chattanooga yesterday afternoon, en- deavoring to catch the Barons, won two from Nashville, and Montgomery, en- deavoring to get out of the Barons' reach, won couple from Mobile Atlanta-poor old Atlanta-got hook ed again. f No horns will toot a welcome for Jordan In Crackertown tomorrow Red" Smith, the Nashville phenom, states that he will retire from base ball at the conclusion of the present season ana turn HIS dtlehtioh to eH- gineering.
 It is very probable that Smith Is en- deavoring to get his feet free from the clasp of Brooklyn. It is probable that but for the activity of the Trol- ley Dodgers Smith would have landed with a real club, and it is hard on youngster' when a cruel fate losses him into the arms of Brooklyn. Derrill Pratt, the Montgomery youngster who has made mark for himself already will probably have to go to St. Louis.
 Pratt may retire from the profes- sion, too.
 The Barons are home for four days next week with Montgomery. The indi cations are that the Fourth of July crowd will break all Southern league records. H. W. R.
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Like Our Good, Old Days!

From the London Chronicle.
 We have gone some distance in fres lunching and free living. But in Cervia . member of parliament has discovered the possibilities of free travelling. He Is paid a salary for attendance And he has a railway pass. So why pay hotel for a bed? ( At eventide he steps into the ex- press from Belgrade to 'Papovo, and sleeps freely and well. In the morning he comes back to his duties by tile uptrain. And seems to have solved the inverted problem of representation without tax ation
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Huntsville Fans Enthusiastic

Huntsville baseball fans who were pres ent at the Elks' theatre telegraphic detail of the game when Fenner made home run and won the game at Gadsden, passed around the hat and collected enough money to buy Fenner nice suit of clothes.
 Outfieder Lamber of the Huntsville team has been released to Anniston.
 The Fourth of July will be big day for the lovers of baseball and there will be two games played here between Hunts vile and Decatur large crowd is ex- pected on special train from Decatur.
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Zeus Wins Canadian Derby

Fort Erie. Pa., July 1.-Zeus, owned by S. c. IIldreth. and ridden by Jockey Shilling, won the Canadian derby here today with Governor Gray second and Whist third The race, one and quar- ter miles. has guaranteed value of sS5O0 The time was 2:04%. The winner was favorite at, Il to ,. Meridian, Trap Rock and Lahore ran.
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THREE RECORDS BROKEN AT
 FORBES FIELD TRACK MEET

year by Brodd of the Irish-American A. C.
 The points scored by clubs are; Irish American A. C., 5S; N. Y. A. C., 2S; Seat tie A. C., 12; Olympic club, Il; Boston A.. A, '; Cleveland A. C., [; Kansas City A. C., 6; Chicago A. A, 6; Unattached (9), 5; P. A. A. 8; Brookline G. A. A. g. Chi cago university, 5; Aquinas A. C., 8; South Boston A. C.. 1.
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The Barons are home for four days next week with Montgomery. The indi- cations are that the Fourth of July crowd will break all Southern league records. H. W. R.
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And while we think of 1t, young Neasey was once the property of Bir- mingham, having been obtained from Meridian in the Cotton States terri
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Tuesday Maxwell pitched a marvellous game against Montgomery, holding the hard-rapping Billil<ens scoreless in 13 in
The Ely miner., 1911-09-15
Sam ("Wahoo") Crawford of Detroit.

Pitcher Mullin of the Tigers does
not believe that there is batsman in
the league today who can place a ball
where he wants it.
There are a number of players who
claim they can place ball, but there
was only one that ever thought could
do it," says Mullin. THAT was Willie
Keeler. ! think he was one of the
greatest hitters the game ever pro-
duced. He seemed to know exactly
where every ball he hit was going to
land. / saw him bunt perfectly with
two out and three on in the ninth inn
ing. No batsman would have attempt
ed to do thing of that kind unless
he had perfect confidence in his abil-
ity to lay the ball down just where he
wanted it. Keeler rolled the ball be-
tween the pitchers box and third base
SO accurately that the man on the
base scored easily.
II think that Sam Crawford is the
best natural hitter in the big leagues.
Crawford makes easy work of meeting
the ball. and he swings his bat with
The Ely miner., 1911-09-15
SEVEN MANAGERS GO
Big League Owners Planning to
Make Many Changes.
Jim McAIeer Expects to Drop Out at
Washington and Clarke Griffith
Hasn't Any Chance to Stick
at Cincinnati.

The remarkable shifting of man.
ayers in the major leagues two or
three years ago is likely to be outdone
at the end OF the present season, when
no less than seven shippers OF un-
fortunate second division outfits will
be asked to show cause why they
should not be supplanted. Disappoint-
ed club owners are already beginning
to plan on next years teams. and at
least two managers have already made
up their minds to resign.
This is Jim McAleer's last season as
major league manager. Although
he is drawing $4,000 year in Wash
pire until after the season of 1912,
McAleer is disgusted over affairs in
Washington and will get out. The
Washington club runs along with no
business management or staff of
scouts, such as other clubs employ,
and McAleer consequently finds him.
self stuck with a team Of veterans.
He is wealthy and intends to buy a
minor league club-in fact, he has al
ready started negotiations.
Clarke Griffith hasn't a chance to
stick in Cincinnati the way things are
going there. Griff registered a fall
ure with the Reds, although he COM
mands team of individual stars and
has spent much money in the upkeep
of his machine
Other managers who may be asked
to move are Patsy Donovan, of the
Boston Americans; Bob Wallace of the
st. Louis Browns, George Stovall of
Cleveland, Fred Tenney, Boston Ma
tionals. and possibly Bill Dahlen of
Brooklyn.
In St. Louis it is believed that Bob
Wallace will voluntarily resign the
management of the Browns, but will
remain with the team. Fred Lake will
be his successor if there is change.
Fred Tenney's days In Boston are
said to be numbered. 1t Is officially
denied. but, nevertheless, it is a GER
tainty that Johnny King has been
promised the management of the Rust
lers
DdNIS Has DCCu Ou6TGQ Zig
management of the Cleveland team.
and probably will accept next winter
George Stovall, the present leader of
the Maps, is willing to become a pri-
yate again. Stovalrs appointment to
succeed MCGUIRE has never been con-
sidered as anything but temporary
arrangement.
Garry Hermann will find it difficult
to get good man to replace Griffith.
Players and managers regard Cincin-
natl as the city to be avoided except
as members Of visiting teams. Griff
has never been forgiven for dismiss
ing Higgins, Mowery and Ellis, three
players who have greatly assisted
Roger Bresnahan in registering the
managerial hit of the year. On the
Cincinnati team at present there isn't
player who appears capable of max
ing a success of the Reds
Bill Dahlen has had some Eard luck
in Brooklyn. This is his second year,
and If the Dodgers fail to finish higher
than seventh Dahlen may be asked to
quit Bill knows lot of baseball, but
doesn't seem to be able to impart his
knowledge to the athletes drawing sal
ary from Charles H. Ebbets; at least
not to any great extent.
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DEATH BEFORE 100
YEARS IS SUICIDE
Prof. Munyon Says Ignorance
of Laws of Health Explains
Early End of Life.
NOTED SCIENTIST HAS
ENCOURAGING WORD
FOR DESPONDENT
MEN AND WOMEN

death before 100 years of age has
been reached is nothing more or less
than slow suicide. A man Cor woman)
who dies at an earlier age is simply igno-
rant of the laws of health.''
Such was the original and rather
startling statement made by Professor
phia health authority, who is establish
ing health headquarters in all the large
cities of the world for the purpose of get
ting in direct touch with his thousands
of converts.
Professor Munyon is living embodi-
ment of the cheerful creed he breaches.
he looks as though he would easily at
tain the century age limit which he de-
clares is the normal one. He said:
know my @ opinions pie on 9 the suSiect SHr. Of
health, which are the fruit OF lifetime
devoted to healing the sick, people Of
city big enough to house the people in
this State alone who have found health
through my methods. Before / get
through there won't be building big
this city alone.
II want, most of all. to talk to the sick
people.the invalids. the discouraged
racking diseases and ailments-for these
are the ones to whom the message of
hope which I bear will bring the great
81 want to talk to the rheumatics, the
sufferers from stomach trouble, the ones
afflicted with that noxious disease, ca
tarrh. I want to tell my story to the
women who have become chronic in
valids as result of nervous troubles. I
want to talk to the men who are all run
down. whose health has been broken by
overwork, improper diet, late hours and
other causes, and who feel the creeping
clutch of serious, chronic illness.
ITO these people I bring a story Of
hope. / can give them promise of bet
ter things I want to astonish them by
showing the record of cures performed
through my new system of treatment.
II have taken the best of the ideas
from all schools and embodied them in
a new system of treatments individually
adapted to each particular case. 1 have
no cure alls,' but my present method Of
attacking disease is the very best thought
of modern science. The success which
have had with these treatments in this
city and all over America proves its eff
cacy. Old methods must give away to
new medical science moves. I know what
my remedies are doing for humanity
everywhere. I know what they will do
for the people of this city. Let me prove
my statements-that's all I ask"
The continuous stream of callers ana
mail that comes to Professor James M.
Munyon at his laboratories, Fifty-thrd
and Jefferson streets, Philadelphia, Pa,
keeps DR.. Munyon and his enormous
corps of expert physicians busy
Professor Munyon makes no charge for
consultation or medical advice: not a
penny to pay. Address Prof. J. M. Mum
yon, Munyon's Laboratories, Fifty-third
and Jefferson streets. Philadelphia, Pa
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A Reply Was Revised.

They have grown very touchy on
Alaskan matters in the interior depart
ment since the trouble of the Cunning
ham claims" said a coal man the 9TH
er day.
Il had occasion some time ago to
write to the department about an
Alaskan subject that had no bearing
on the situation. have just received
an answer that does not commit any
body, but it had on it the initials Of
at least six persons, showing that the
reply had been thoroughly considered
and revised before it was started in
my direction. guess they are on the
lookout for bombs"
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down below the water line and who
to get away.
In the Captains cabin and in the
other quarters that have been uncov-
cred and mud-relieved, articles of va
rious sorts In most remarkable pres
ervation have been found. The most
striking thing in this line is box
of rubber bands in perfect state of
elasticity and preservation. Their i'm
mersion in the intensely salt waters
of Havana harbor appears to have i'm
proved them, if anything. Bits of
leather sword hilts, shoes, caps have
come out practically uninjured. All
metals, however. show the effect OF
the immersion.
There is, roughly, 25 feet of mud to
take out yet before the Maine can be
raised" The piling that forms the
exterior of each of the caissons COM
posing the cofferdam is so feet long.
Between 25 and 80 feet of water was
pumped out. There is nothing but
mud remaining. But it is glue-like
mud and is 10 times harder to get rid
of than the water was. Hydraulic
pumps have been installed, but the
work put upon them is SO unusual
that they haven't been successful az
yet.
Oxygen-acetyline apparatus has
been used to separate-"cut up"-the
steel and iron of the ship where it
was necessary to remove those tan
gled portions hampering the further
work of excavation. This apparatus
resembles, in way, plumbers blow
lamp. Only the intense heat cuts
through metal as knife would
through butter. A five-inch square
piece of steel was seen severed so
quickly that the operation appeared
to be almost magical. The method Of
cutting away the opposing metal parts
will be continued until the wreck is
entirely removed.
Incrusted With Oysters.
The whole part of the ship so far
exposed is incrusted with oysters and
arnacles-mostly oysters. Hundreds
of thousands of the bivalves have at
tached themselves to the hulk. The
incrustations appearing in the pic
ture are all oysters. When the water
was being removed from the Golfer
dam thousands of fish and eels
splashed and struggled in the inclos-
ure. There were many Of the several
hundred workmen employed by Major
Ferguson who took home strings Of
fish every night when they quit work
Now, of course, there is nothing but
Shiny mud within the inclosure.
The work Of constructing the cof
ferdam, and, in fact, practically all of
the executive labor connected with
the raising" has been conducted by
Major Hartley B. Ferguson, who is
one of the main board. Colonel Will
liam Black and Colonel Mason Patrick
are the other two. The cofferdam
has been repeatedly tested and in sew
eral places REINFORCED, and, while it
is the first one of the sort ever con-
structed, the complete success of it
has marked q place in the history of
engineering. But successful as the
work has been remarkable, the cold
fact probably Is not more than half
finished.
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|AIrlo19tlle'
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|PoyerJ1 :,

Safer seems to be filling first base
cleverly.
Connie Mack has nothing to worry
him except his pitchers.
Fred Tenney is doing his best to
bring his club up in the race
Ping Bodie believes in the quality
of his hits rather than thei- quan-
tity.
Becker is the youngster McAleer
picked up around the Washington
prairie.
Hugh Jennings is reported to want
to dispose of Dave Jones and Capt.
Moriarity.
Roger Bresnahan has been offered
$1,000 week to go on the stage the
coming winter.
Kitty Bransfieid has asked Philadel-
phia 20 make a trade by which he
can go to Pittsburg.
Jimmy Callahan probably has a pat
ent on the come back stuff. Mike
Donlin can't do the trick.
1t must hurt big league magnate
to pay three players for recruit who
once was released for nothing.
The former big leaguers that are
with the Baltimore Orioles have kent
the team in the hunt this year.
If major league magnates claim all
the men on whom they have strings.
there won't be many left for the BUSH
ers.
Let us have the box score of the
contest between North Carolina and
Georgia over the birthplace of Ty
Cobb.
Secretary Billy Fowler of the Wash.
ington club believes he has the max.
ings of championship team for next
year.
Slapnicka. the big Bohemian pitch.
er who will work for the Cubs next
season, won thirteen games In a row
fer Rockford.
George Stovall is in a peculiar DO.
sition He is building up the Maps to
win the pennant next year for an.
other manager.
".
the Boston Red Sox will have four
Denver players next season, the 9th
ers being Hagerman and O'Brien.
G. Bradley Hogge, the. pitcher Sc
cured by Boston from Haverhill. had
won eight out of ten games at the
time of his sale, six of them in row.
The White Sox have bought First
Basema1 Ems OF Galesburg. upon whom
the st. Louis Browns were said to
lave had an option in exchange for
Pitcher Tanning.
When the first trade involving Her
zog and Bridweil was made 1t was
necessary for the Giants to throw IN
couple of extra players. Now the
conditions ere reversed. Herxoe ie
now star. while Bridwell is q sst
eran who is going back East
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Harry Lord.

in 1906. Lord graduated to Provi-
dence in the following year and was
drafted by the Boss5p BED Sox in the
fall OF 1907. He made good in the
American league from the start and
soon was acknowledged to be the best
third baseman in the Johnson circuit.
He became captain of the Red :9ox in
1909. succeeding Doc Gessler Some
thing went wrong between Lord and
tho Taylor regime last year, and Lord
was traded to the White Sox. He is
now playing the best ball of his ca
reer and is batting well over the 300
mark. He was made captain of the
White Sox late last season. but next
year. Windy City fans says, Is will be
Manager Lord.
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sues for Immense SUM.

A suit in which French woman.
Nine. Cotton. is the present plaintiff,
beats the record of the Jennens case.
This lady is the legal heiress of
goldsmith who in 1858 lent the gov
ernment of Venice 100000 crowns. the
present value of which with interest.
is estimated at about $4.000.000. The
heir Of the original lender was
Freshman, Jean Thierry, who died
before the loan was repaid. There was
lawsuit over his succession. and
Louis XIV. claimed the estate. ana
annexed the French portion of It
The suit was still dragging on at the
time of the directory, when Bonapart
forced Venice to repay the loan. Since
then France has been the custodian
of the Thierry estate The govern
ment has been sued dozens of times,
but to no purpose. Now. Nine. Cot
ton is suing the government of Aus
tria and Italy. as well as that OF
France, because each in turn has
owned Venice.-London Chronicle.
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out any special effort. Crawford is al
so hard luck hitter. Many of his
high drives ought to go for doubles.
triples and even home runs. but Sam
seems to have the misfortune to hit in
fielder's territory more often than
any other hitting player Ed Dele
hanty was another natural hitter-he
was probably even better than Craw-
ford in his time. Good natural hitters
are scarce in professional baseball"
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New Iron Man.

Bob Harmon, the Cardinals young
twirler. threatens to take the Ma
tional league pitching crown away
from Christy Mathewson this season
For years Mathewson and Three-Fin,
gered Brown of Chicago have shared
the twirling honors. One year Matty
would be on top and the next one
would find the three-fingered boy
leading the pitchers in the older or
ganization. Since the start of the
1911 campaign Harmon has twirled
brilliant ball. In large measure
the success of the Cardinals is due %
the rne pitching Of Harmon.