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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-19
DKie's Ball Player Crop Rivals Its Yield of Cotton
South's Stars Now in Majors Make Formidable Team

staying in classy company to
which he was twice called.
The pitching list is hardly less
formidab BILE Russell Ford is among
the best right handlers of the world.
Nap Rucker is nquestionably the
peer of any southpaw who ever
pulled on right handed glove.
Hub Perdue, the famous Gallatin
squash, can actually win games for
the Boston Braves RUDE Benton
and George Suggs are the Reds
only dependable pitchers. Kent and
Ragon. of Brooklyn, won their
spurs in this circuit.
Dygert Almost Won Pennant.
And of the hurlers of yesterday,
who can forget how little Jimmie
Dygert, the first year after he left
New orleans and Joined the Ath-
letiCs was rushed into the breach
when Mack's stars collapsed and,
single-handed. almost won a pen
nant from Detroit? Handsome
Harry Mcintyre just this year
dropped out of the major circuit
after years of usefulness to both
Brooklyn and the Cubs, while big
Frank Smith has dropped out after
years of brilliant work.
The infeld list loses nothing in
brilliancy. Ask who is the best
first baseman in the world today
and practically every expert in the
land will stand on his hind legs
and shout Jake Daubert" up to
high heaven. Young Derrill Pratt
has shown himself sensation even
with the unfortunate environment
of being on the pay roll of the St.
Louis Browns.
And the majors are Just full of
Southern league third basemen.
There is little Bobby Byrne, Of
Pittsburg, who has won his world
series spurs. over Brooklyn way
there is Red" Smith doing duty
at the third corner, while the Bos-
ton Braves have big Jay Kirke
performing a similar function. Lus-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-19
BY Fuzzy Woodruff.

n ORE real stars of the base
Nj ball armament have at
tanned major leaguedom
from the southern circuit than any
one other outfit in organized base
ball Names that have grown as
familiar on the score cards in the
two big leagues as the very type it
self were first printed in the box
scores of this circuit.
Many are called each year from
Dixie, and it is striking fact that
most of those who get the sum-
mons that means all to a profess
sional ball player respond to it and
stick. No Marty O'Toole. Rube
Marquard, Russell Blackburn or
Lefty Russell prices have been paid
for Southern ball players, but the
men from this section have usually
paid a far more handsome profit on
the investment than these pluto
cratic personages whose purchase
price runs up to kingly ransom fig
ures.
A study of he,rosters of the ma
jor clubs will show the important
part that Dixie is playing in the
pastime.
Archer Came From Atlanta.
Take the catchers for instance.
Beyond question, the best receiver
in the National is Jimmie Archer,
and Archer wore an Atlanta uni
form before he was called to high
er things. Perhaps the premier
performer in the same position in
the American league is Big Ed
Sweeney, and Sweeney was Arch
er's successor in Atlanta.
But the backstopping glory does
not stop there. 1t has been but a
few brief seasons ago that Mig
Clarke was considered the most
promising catcher in the majors
and only the unfortunate tempera-
ment of Sid Smith kept him from
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-19

ter was loaned the Southern league
when George Robe turned the tide
of battle in the historic world Sc
ries between the SoX and Cubs. He
did this the year after his pur-
chase from the PeliCans.
Send Up Great OutfieIders.
But taking the outfield. the list
grows in formidabiity. If the Red
SOX swim, the bat of iris Speaker
will be more largely responsible
than any other factor. Joe Jack
son ranks second only to Cobb and
Speaker as an outfeld performer.
For years RUDE Oldring has been
a mainstay of Mack, while Bris
LORD has been almost as useful.
Zach Wheat. the Indian, is among
the best, and he has a coming
companion in Hub Northern, now
working with him in Brooklyn.
All these men have won their
fame in the twelve years since the
reorganization of the Southern
league. Go back into the olden
time and the list is just as lumi-
nous. Fred Clarke, Pittsburg's
great leader; Hank O'Day, manager
of the Reds; little TOpsy Hartsel,
who up to last year was MaCk's
regular sun fielder; Heinie Pitez,
for years famous as backstop,
Iron Man Joe MCGinnity, one of the
greatest hurlers who ever faced
batter; Bill Armour, who managed
Cleveland and so on and on.
Other leagues of the minors can
boast better salary limits More
fancy prices may be paid for their
players, but from past perform
ances the major scouts would do
well to look over the Southern be
fore their eyes are turned in any
other direction in the whole realm
of the national pastime.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-19
BILLY SMITH WILL MANAGE ATLANTA TEAM TWO YEARS

Billy Smith Crackers While he
hasn placed Hancock
him to until he released by the Ious, is tes
ed sealed and delivered within
of the Crackers on Labor day which will men
he will
Gus Ryan the local romhi
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-19

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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-19

Games Today.
Albany in Columbus.
Savannah in Columbia.
Macon in Jacksonville.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-19
MEXICAN LEAGUE.

Games Today.
Chicago in Philadelphia
St. Louis in New York.
Detroit in Boston.
Cleveland in Washington.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-19

SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-15
THE GRAPHIC'S PARIS LETTER
BUSY BEE CAFE

in 1642 by Rene de Longeuil, has. af- ter many vicissitudes, been opened as a museiim to the public. Longeuil, after his disgrace, sold his castle where Louis. XIV. and Louis XIV. each spent some time.s It then passed into the hands of the Comte d'Artois, who was to become Charles X. of France, and who had a magnificent dining hall added to the castle by the architect who built Bagatelle. On this one hall he spent $120,000 which was an enormous sum for the period. Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette of ten drove out from Paris to dine at the cateau.
 When the revolution came, the na- tion confiscated it, and Napoleon l.. gave it to the first Duke of Monte- bello. Ills with,w sold it to the bank CT Lafittee, and the castle and the town took it's name from it's last owner Voltaire lived there for some time in 1723; in fact, he lived there longer than he meant, for smallpox laid him low just as he was finish ing his tragedy, Marianne" and kept hi mthere a month after he meant to leave. On the day of his departure fire broke out in the rooms in which he had lived and writ ten, and the repairs cost the owner of. tn, chateau over $20,000. Voltaire's study in the castle is still shewn to visitors, and, curiousfy lenough, in 1923, exactly century after Voltaire's residence there, when the castle be- longed to deputy named Manuel, Beranger lived there for several
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-15
YOUNG AMERICA
 AT WEST POINT Government Will Encourage Young Men to Enter Na- tional Military Academy EXTENDS AUTHORITY Provisions For Appointments and Ad- mission-Expect Big Class
 Next Term.
EXTENDS AUTHORITY

Washington, Sept. 14.-The desire of "Young America" to follow the flag by becoming students at the West Point Military Academy has become a matter of official attention at the War Department. During the past spring, a greater effort has been made by these officials to interest young men in the military affairs of nation with the view of becoming officers in the regular army. This has caused a larger number of applications than ever for admission to the military school.
 Congressmen and senators, as we'll as the president of the United States, will have the right to designate greater number of applicants. For merly each senator and each congress- man were given the opportunity of naming one cadet and one alternate to the Military Academy and the president the right to nominate two. Now the apportionment is regulated according to the census.
 In this connection, the War Depart ment has authorized the issuance of an historical sketch of the Military Academy for circulation throughout each congressional district. The hope is that from the number of applica- tions received the next West Point class will be the largest in the his tory of that institution and will fill the big dormitories that have for the past two years have been half vacant.
 The sketch that has been written by
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-15


 No French politician works harder than M Delcasse. On Thursday, inn mediately after the naval manuevers off Algiers, M. Delcasse, who is at tending the maneuvers by way of summer holiday, was put on shore, and went into the question, with a number of naval experts, as to how the port of Algiers could best be en- larged He received tremendous reception, for there is no Frenchman for whom the Arabs of Algiers have a greater respect. They have fitted hiro with a very neat nickname. They call him "The little man who does big things
 I do not know where the name of uncle" for pawnshop sprang from, but there is an historic reason for the nickname of "auntie' which the French give to the Mont de Piete. The. name has come down from a re- mark made by the Prince do Joinville when he was quite young man. The Prince de Joinville, the son of Louis Philippe, was allowed very little pocket money. On his birthday the Queen presented him with beauti- full gold chronometer, and few weeks afterwards she noticed that he was not wearing it. When he was asked where the watch was, the fu- ture admiral replied casually, "Oh, il is at my aunt's.' A messenger was sent to Princess Adelaide, who knew nothing about the watch and the prince had to confess that he had pawned it. The story was too good to remain untold, and the nickname of ma tante' for the French pawn shop became part of the language.
 
 The clocks of France have struck i This is, of course, exactly what we'll conducted clocks should do, but mean the word in the labor sense few weeks ago all the railway clocks 1 in France received new faces, witt the hours from 1 to "A instead of to 12. People still puzzle a good dea over the time of their trains whe1 the railway guide tells them they must be at the station at "01S' 1 (which is eighteen minutes after mid night, or "17.15" (which is a quarter past five in the afternoon). But al though the new faces of the clocks show "O' or "17'' they strike twelve or five, as they. used to, and no at tempt has been made yet to put il a mechanism to make them strike III to twenty-four.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-15

T. l.. Parks, Mnrrayville, Ga., Route 1, is in his 73rd year, and was recent ly cured of a bad kidney and bladder trouble. He says himself: q have suffered with my kidneys. My back ached and I was annoyed with bladder irregularities. I can truthfully say, one 50c bottle of Foley Kidney Pills cured me entirely" They contain no habit forming drugs. w. L. Dewoody &. Go.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-15
The Men Who Succeed
is 5,112

as heads of large enterprises are men of great energy. Success, today, de- mands helth. To ail is to fail. It's utter folly for man to endure weak, rundown, half alive condition when Electric iBtters will put him right on his feet in short order. ''Four bottles did me more real good than any other medicine I ever took" writes Chas. B. Allen, Sylvania, Ga. After years of suffering with rheumatism, liver trou- ble, stomach disorders, and deranged
 kidneys, am again, thanks to Elec- trio Bitters, sound and we'll Try them. Only 50 cents at all druggists.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-15
(By La Raconteuse.),

Paris Sept. s14.-President Fall lfeHes' term of office come to an end mex. Fsbinary. and there is already
 co9sidsrable talk in Paris as to hls succesSor:-.rs The name one hears oft cnest Is that of M. Leon Bourgeois,
 who will undoubtedly be elected if he esbecomes sa a candidate The decis- ion, on this. point rests very largely with his son, Dr. Georges Bourgeois. His father has the greatest trust in him. medically and politically, and 1t will be fsr him to decide whether hisl fathe: is strong enough for the cares of .office. Failing M. Bour- geois.. M.. Georges Clemenceau is a very. possible president of the re- pnbltc:ss It. issnot at all certain, how ever. whether he will stand, or his position is that he wishes next year to do his nttermost' to throw out the proportional representation bill, and thbsoftAee of president of the republic would naturally make active politics Impossible. The third possible presi- dent, of whom there is talk, is M. An .tonin nubost, who is now president IT the senate. If he should be elect n he would be the third president of the senate in rotation to resign from t1st ciiee. which M. Loubet and M. E3lUetss have, each held in turn. for tse cnice c4 first magistrate of the third repuslie3 y
 France hS pothsr museum to her csedit this The old chateau 1nt \ Naiaona- Laitfe. which was built
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-15
FINE SERVICE AND
 DAINTY APPOINTMENTS

characterize the Busy Bee Restaur- ant. It isn't only what you eat here that gives zest to your appetite-it's the way the viands are cooked and served, the way the tables look, the way we treat you. Take your time eating here, but waste no time in get ting here. Try our Chop Suey. It is delightful dish. Our prices will not punish your inqulsitiveness when you ask them. Bring your best girl along.
 BUSY BEE CAFE
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-15

Attorney M. Danaher has returned from Star City, where he attended the circuit court.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-15

France hx uothsr museum to her sctedit this 2 The old chateau cf 1 Naieons- Latte, which was. built
The Washington times., 1912-05-20
ANNUAL OUTING Of
COMMERCE CHAMBER
COMES TO AN END
Steamer Southland, With
Capital Men on Board,
Arrives in Morning.

The Chamber of Commerce annual
outing came to a close with the arrival
Of the steamer Southland at her pier
this morning at o'clock. The members
Of the party. who for the past three
days have been touring the Old Do
minion, were unanimous in their opinion
that the trip was one OF the best and
most enjoyable ever taken by the
Chamber.
No incident occurred during the en-
tire trip to mar the pleasure of the
party, while good fortune attended in
the form of ideal weather, and view
OF the launching of the Texas and a
later close view of the big battleship.
At the end of yesterday afternoons 8
sail down the James river from Rich
mond, the steamer Smithfield, which
Texas, whose launching on Saturday the
party was able through streak of
good luck to witness.
The trip down the river from Rich
mond to Old Point Comfort was taken
In a chartered steamer, and was one
Of the most enjoyable features of the
excursion. The steamer passes many
of the country, jamestown Island. the
first English colony in America: the
birthplaces OF the first President Harri-
son and President Tyler; Malvern Hill
the scene OF one OF the bloodiest battles
of the civil war, and a score of other
places which have figured in the i'm
portant events of United States history
Old Point Comfort was reached In
time yesterday afternoon for a plunge
In the salt water pool of the Chamber
lain before dinner. The return steamer
was boarded at 7:15 last night.
The Washington times., 1912-05-20
DEMOCRATS Of CITY
WILL MEET TONIGHT
TO NAME DELEGATES
Expected That Peace Will
Be Made at Gathering in
Costello's Hall.

Some of the confusion prevailing in
District Democratic politics is expected
70 be ironed out at the meeting Of
the District central committee ut Cos
tellO's Hall, J0i y street northwest, this
evening The committee will receive
filings for delegates to be voted on at
the District primaries to be held May
q. The District convention will be
held two days later.
A struggle is on between factions in
the party for control of The local Or
ganization, and charges of bad faith
are rife. A large majority OF the som-
mitteemen representing the twenty-five
voting districts VI the District arc for
Champ CLARK, but there will be two
Clark tickets In the field in all llkeli-
hood. because opposing factions wish
to get control of the local machinery.
j. Fred Kelly, chairman OF the central
committee. heads one faction, Walter
Costello, vice chairman, another.
The friends of Kelly are asserting
that Costello is not really for Clark.
and that his associates and intin'ate5
are really Harmon men. Costello denies
this vigorously, saying he Is for Clark.
first, last. ard all the time, and for an
instructed delegation for. the Speaker
to the Baltimore convention.
Three delegates will be named from
each voting district. 20 IL there ara
tuJr tickets in the field. there will be
2c4 names on the primary ballot.
to get the factions definitely lined up
30 that the primary vote will determine
which set of men shall run the Demo-
cratic party in the District hereafter.
The Washington times., 1912-05-20
STARVES
HIMSELF TO HELP
CAUSE OF SCIENCE
Harvard Student Tells Of
Others Working Way
Through School.

BOSTON, Mass, May 2O.-Today the
details of the scientific starving of
Prof. Agostino Levanzin at the Nutri-
tion Laboratory of the Carnegie Insti-
tute in Roxbury, conducted by Prof.
Francis Sano Benedict, and which have
been carefully suppressed for days. were
made public by NJ. F. Tufts, a senior at
the Harvard Dental School, and a form
er subject.
That Prof Levanzin was virtually a
prisoner during the thirty-three days of
his fast, and that during a part of the
time he was kept in a zinc air-tight
coffin with his mouth sealed and breath
ing air fed him by tubes in his nostrils,
is asserted
That students working their way
through college and anxious to earn a
little money are placed in tubs filled
with ice water and floating ice to study
the action of extreme cold upon the
body is charged.
Students are fed strange diets to see
what the stomach will stand and what
1t will refuse.
Vivisection OF dogs in a most repul-
sive form is practiced.
The purpose of the laboratory is to
secure data that will be of value to
humanity. and particularly the scientific
importance OF food and the lack of It.
Tufts explains in part as follows:
"A large part of the time Prof. Le-
vansin remained in the calorimeter
room. This room is a perfectly alright
chamber. He was laid down on a
couch. His mouth was sealed. Into
his nostrils were inserted rubber tubes
connected with a series Of jars and a
motor, complet eting the circuit. These
Jars were filled with chemicals which
removed from the air he had breathed
the carbon dioxide and moisture Then
oxygen was let into 1t. The weight OF
the carbon dioxide and moisture was
ascertained and carefully recorded. And
the amount of oxygen consumed by the
subject was also measured"
LevanZin Is recuperating satisiac.
torily, and II Is understood he will re.
celve 81 900 for his services as a subject
The Washington times., 1912-05-20
Plans Are Perfected
By Both Sides for
Invading New Jersey

Both the Roosevelt and Taft man.
ayers are perfectng plans for throw
ing their oratorical forces into New
Jersey the moment the Ohio primary
is over. Jersey votes just week from
Tuesday, and it is going to be lively
week.
Colonel Roosevelt will spend as much
time as possible in the State, and other
Roosevelt speakers who are now being
scheduled for strenuous tours include
Senator Clapp of Minnesota, Congress-
man Murdock of Kansas, Senator Poin-
dexter of Washington, and a long list
OF others. The Taft forces expect to
be just as vigorous in their effort to
get their case presented from plat
forms all over the State. The news Is
highly encouraging to Roosevelt au-
thorities.
The recent upheaval in Atlantic City,
where the town boss has been prose-
cuted and where the citizens have
adopted the commission form of gov
ernment in order to get rid of the
graft imposed by the very elements
that are making the fight in that COM
munity against Roosevelt, is sugges-
tive Of developing conditions.
Arkansas is continuing its middle-of-
the-road policy in certain districts, in
the nope OF DelHB dDle 10 redCn a Ddnu-
wagon and save the Federal jobs Of the
old machine. The Sixth Congressional
district yesterday chose two delegates
to Chicago, without a split or con-
test, and did 1t by reason of agreement
that they should be uninstructed. This
Is the Hot Springs district. The delega-
ton is counted likely to support Roose-
Welt.
In the Fourth district, on the other
hand. the Roosevelt forces elected two
Roosevelt delegates. and the Taft people
promptly bolted and organized an oppo.
sition, naming two contestlng delegates
Capt. ]. II. Gregory, treasurer of the
national Roosevelt committee, received
word that the Florida convention al
Jacksonville, which claims to be the
regular one, has elected him a delegate
at-large. Florida is his home State, anC
his friends put through his election al
a compliment to his position and labors
without any campaign whatever by him
The last district convention in Okla
homa was held Saturday, and instructed
it's two delegates for Roosevelt Their
were 1O9 Roosevelt and seven Taft dele
gates in the convention, and there wa
no suggestion of contest.
This gives Roosevelt eighteen of tn
twenty delegates from the State.
The Washington times., 1912-05-20
START
PLANTING OF SEED
ON FARM IN CITY
Sixteen From Seventh Grade
Go to Work on Site on
Speedway.

Blessed by balmier weather than at
the first essay, the sixteen seventh
grade Toner School boys who are doing
commercial gardening under the direc-
tion of Miss Susan b. Sipe, director
kindergartens In the schools, planted
their tomato seed and potatoes this
afternoon.
The party went TO the Speedway at
the foot of Twenty-fourth street at 1850
p. m. and Immediately began marking
out the miniature truck farms, which
will be cultivated carefully until the
seed has borne fruit.
Following the Towering of these gar
dens, the produce will be sold in public
markets or else, perchance, eaten at
home, in which latter event the family
exchequer may be better off, but GER
tain school boy dreams of comparative
riches will be sadly shattered. The
boys were to have made their start
Friday, but rain interfered.
The boys who are thus starting a To-
cal back to the farm movement are
Elmer and Archie Fletcher, Arthur
Funkhouser, Walter King, James Lee,
Frank Mccoy, James Moran, George
Norris, James Norman, Harold Potter,
Linden Crato, Clifton Drown, Raymond
Catlin. Edward Fahey, Joseph Reinn,
and Wilton Shombert.
The Washington times., 1912-05-20
HOUSTON'S FIRE COST
NEARLY A MILLION
Blocks In Center Of Business Sec.
ton Reduced To Smoking
Ruins.

HOUSTON, Texas, May 2o-Firemen
today still poured thousands of gallons
of water upon the smoking ruins of yes
terday's million dollar fire, which burn
ed the Showers, Latham. and Mason
buildings in the heart of the business
district, and damaged the ten-story
Jones building. Defective wiring is be-
lieved to have been the origin of the
fire. The principal losers were:
Furniture Company. $4,000; A. Upper
Company "Inc.:- s25 GOO; Latham build
ing, $4,000; Mason building, $100,000
Thomas Goggan and Brother, $35, 900
Temple building, $S5, 900; eighty-five Of
fees in the Temple and Mason build
ings, burned out, $4,000.