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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
FED CHIEF WOULD
PLAY FOR TITLE
Offers Receipts to Charity and
Players if Cubs or Soy
VIII Play.
WRITES PUBLIC A LETTER
Chifed Boss Would Have seri.. ~
Five or Seven oames-smaH
Chance of Series.

Chicago. Ill, Oct. 10.-In a final e.
fort to arrange a series between as
Federal league lunners-up and tbs
winner Of the Cubs-Sox series, Pres,.
dent Weeghman of the Ink ysstes
day issued new challenge to the 10
cal clubs of organized baseball. Weezh.
man offers to turn 80 per cent Of the
receipts over to charity and the re-
manning half to the players. Under
this arrangement the Federal mag
nate would not profit by the games,
He declares in his challenge that local
fandom is entitled to a chance to size
up the relative strength of the Fed
eraI league and the clubs Of organized
baseball.
Several weeks ago Weeghman Is.
sued similar def. Weeghman at TIA,
time offered to wager $4,000 OF ths
chances of his club, and the only replT
he ever received was curt notihca.
tion in a roundabout way that Com.
iskey was not betting man" Presi.
dent Thomas of the Cubs paid no at.
tention to the matter.
Challenge BY Weeahman.
Weeghman's new challenge fol
lows:
Refusal Of the arrangements Of the
Cubs and SoX to consider my chal-
lenge to meet the winner OF the pres.
ent Cub-Sox city series for side bet
of $4,000, and the demand of Chicag1
fans to see a series between a repre-
sentative team Of organized baseball
and a Federal league top notch aggre
cation, prompt me to make one more
attempt to arrange a game between
the Chicago Federals and either the
Sox or Cubs.
Here's my final proposition: Stage
a series of five or seven games with
either the Sox or Cubs, which ever
team wins the present set o; games.
receipts to charity. the remaining 80
per cent to be turned over to the mem.
bers of both teams according to an
agreement TO be made on a winners
and loosers' end.
For Charity or Players.
Let every dollar taken in go either
to Players or to charity, or let the op
rCsing club management pay their play
ers as they see fit, but allow one-ha
of the receipts to go to charitable in
stitutions to be named by a commit
tee. The Chicago Federal league club
does not want one cent o,
the proceeds, but will be content tc
play for the glory of the pastimes and
to decide for the fans of Chicago tie
question Of supremacy between Fed.
eral league and organized baseball
All fair minded baseball fans will
agree with me that this proposition is
fair from every point of view, and
will await an answer
CHARLES WEEGHMAN,
President Chicago Federal Leagua
Baseball club.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
Shaded area shows precipitation
WEATHER CONDITIONS

The western storm center has moved
from Kansas 10 northw estern Illinois
ard the attendant rains have occurred
Il the Missouri. Mississippi and Ohio
g1lleys and the lake region. with a
.otal precipitation of 2.3s inches and a
heavy hailstorm at Kansas City. An
other low which IS central over British
Columbia has caused showers on the
Tacifc coast and the northern portion
- the Rocky mountain plateau. Mod
o--sely high pTessures and cooler tenn
Creatures prevail from Alberta and
Saskatchewan southwark 20 New Mex
leo and northern Texas. with freezing
weather in Wyoming and western
South Dakota. The eastward move
Inent OF the Illinois low and the ap-
proach OF the western high viii be at
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
NEWS OF THE SPORTING WORLI

the bases filed in the Sox second.
Neither side had scored in the opener
though HUMPHREYS started none too
we'll In the second Roth opened with
a single and Demmitt walked, both ad-
vanciug on Schalk's sacrifice. A pass
70 Breton filed the circuit, then Benz
struck out. Here's where the rumpus
started. Weaver spanked a hot bound
er 10 Derrick. and running at top speed
not only beat the throw, but was one
step over first base and Roth had
crossed the plate when TO the amaze
ment OF every fan in the park Eason
waved Weaver ont.
Weaver Goes to Clubhouse.
Jimmy Callahan. coaching at first.
all but threw a fit and Weaver went
stark mad when the ruling was made.
Losing control OF himself, the latter
rushed headIong at Easou and jostlsd
the official. who Immediately ruled
Weaver out of the game. Callahan,
trying to argue with the erring Off
cial, twice pushed his enraged field
captain away from the circle that gath
cred about first base and sought in
vain 20 get a reversal OF the verdict,
but EasOn stood pat. Moreover, he or
dered Cal 10 the rathskeller with in
s-ructioas 10 stick under cover.
TIE Punishment of Weaver, one of the
big three" of the South side team, re-
moved from the ranks the hitter OF
the series and in more ways than one
PLAYED great ball in the remaining
periods. but failed to penetrate Hum
phries' defense. As two rabid Cub fans
put IL in leaving the park. We want
10 win this series, but We don't care 10
have the games handed 10 us
Great pitching marked the matinee.
his performance OF last fall
Benz held the enemy to two scattered
singles and three passes in the seven
innings he operated. but a pass and
single linked with a wild throw TO the
plate and a long fly conspired in pro
ducing the runs that put the Cubs in
front
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
PHILADELPHIA OFFICERS
INVESTIGATE CHARGES

Philadelphia. Oct. 1O.-The scalping
has cut deep into the corporate soul of
Philadelphia. and Commissioner of
Public Safety Porter announced yes
terday that there would be three days
of public hearings where disgruntled
fans would be welcomed with their
evidence against the police.
The scalpers in the meantime made
a harvest. Tickets at $25 apiece we're
sold all over town. Three tickets were
sold before the game right in the
doorway of the Bellevue-Stratford no
tel for ST. They were the regular 81
pasteboards. The national commission
announced that it was helpless in the
matter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
DETAILS OF POOL
TO HOLD COTTON
Loan Fund of $4,000, 5000
to Be Subscribed by Bank
eTs and Others.

st. Louis, Oct. "Details of the pro
posed $150.Oe0O 600 cotton pool, con
cc!ved by Festus J. Wade, a loca.
banker, and now being considered by
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
and the federal reserve board as a
means of relieving the cotton crisis
are made public in a statement is
sued here.
The statement says it is expected
that New York City will subscribe
500 ,0OO,OO0 10 the pool and perhaps
more. St. Louis is expected to contrib
ute $7.5O0.0OO.
The loan fund is to be formed by
subscriptions from national and state
banks and trust companies, merchants
and manufacturers throughout the
country. The pool is to be managed
b. some large firm experienced IN
such bus;ntss, assisted by an advisory
committee of prominent bankers and
cotton handlers.
Not less than 100 financial centers
Will be asked to contribute to the fund,
tC provide uniform negotiable ware
house receipts for the surplus cotton,
and to issue uniform negotiable ware
house receipts for the cotton, which
viii be used as collateral. The syndI-
cate will name as agencies banks of
various points in the south to handle
the loans and perhaps hold them in
trust for the syndicate. Each institu-
ton making a loan viii receive the
notes of the borrowers, together with
the warehouse receipt and insurance
on the cotton in favor of the loaning
bank
The reliability OF the warehouse is
to be guaranteed by the banks at that
place through the clearing house asso-
citation. The loaning bank would OBJ
tain its money for forwarding the
notes and warehouse receipts to the
nearest agency of the syndicate. The
agency would rediscount the note and
reimburse itself by drawing upon the
syndicate managers.
Explaining that il Is not intended
that the fund should be put in compe-
ton against financial institutions
which usually loan upon cotton, the
statement proposes an interest rate OF
: per ceit per annum instead OF the
per cent In addition
there should be a charge of one-tenth
OF l per cent per month to meet such
expenses as compensation for the syn
dicate managers, advertising and other
essentials to the organization.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
Football Games Today.
West.

Chicago VS., Northwestern at Stage
field.
Illinois VS.. Indiana at Urbana.
Minnesota VS.. Ames at Minneapolis.
Purdue VS. Western Reserve at La.
fayette.
Ohio State vs.. Case at Columbus.
Wisconsin VS.. Marquette at Madison.
Iowa VS.. Cornell Qa.) at Iowa City.
Michigan VS.. Vanderbilt at Ann Ar
Dor.
Notre Dame VS.. Rosy Poly at Notre
Dame.
Lawrence VS.. Lake Forest at Apple
ton.
Nebraska VS.. South Dakota at Lin
coin.
Missouri VS.. William Jewell at Co
Iumbia.
Northwestern Col. VS.. De Paul at
Naperville.
Drake vs.. Grinnell at Des Moines.
Wabash VS.. EarIham at Crawfords-
Vile.
Knox VS.. Iowa Wesleyan at Gales
burg
Lombard VS.. William and vashti at
Aledo.
Coe VS.. Monmouth at Cedar Rapids.
Hiram VS.. Mount Union at Alliance
Denison VS.. Oberlin at Granville
Michigan Aggies VS.. Alma at Lans-
ing.
Kalamazoo Normal VS.. Olivet at
Kalamazoo.
Delaware.
Harvard VS.. Washington and Jeffer-
son at Cambridge
Yale VS.. Lehigh at New Haven
Princeton VS.. Syracuse at Princeton
Pennsylvania vs.. Lafayette at Phila-
delphia.
Cornell VS.. Carlisle at Ithaca.
Dartmouth VS.. Williams at Williams
town.
Army VS.. Rutgers at West Point
Navy vs.. Pittsburgh at Annapolis
Brown VS.. Amherst at Providence.
Colby vs.. Tufts at Medford
Holy Cross vs.. Springfield Y NJ. c.
\. at Worcester
Johns Hopkins vs.. Stevens at Balti-
more.
Penn State VS.. Gettysburg at State
college.
Maine VS.. Vermont at Manchester.
Wesleyan VS.. Union at Middletown
South.
Tennessee VS.. Clemson at Knoxville.
Texas VS.. Baylor at Austin
Southwestern VS.. Rice Institute at
Houston.
Florida VS. Alabama Poly at Auburn.
University of South VS., Georgia at
Sewanee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10

Chicago. Ill. Oct. 10-This is the
tale OF an umpire's wrong doing. Also
a recital OF the third engagement of
the Sox and Cubs Tor the city cham
picnship. II deals with superb pitch
ing. spectacular defensive tactics and
Official blunders, with particular EN-
phasis on the latter. which really en-
abled the Cubs to win, > 10 I. before
a crowd $1,000 strong
Far be il from Us 10 criticize an ar
bitter for missing" a close decision.
but the verdict that blasted the SON' >
T11umakfng prospects in the second IN
ming Of The yitular combating at Com
iskey PARK yesterday was so palpab!y
wrong that strong men wept when
they saw il rendered. Far be il from
us to belittle the master curving cI-
forts Of Bert Humphries. who won the
verdict over Joe Benz il a remarkable
duel, but the tables might have been
turned had Nal EasUn. the erring UNI
pire, seen the play in question as did
every fan who occupied a seat in Com
iskey's massive stands.
Hurphries in Great Trim.
Giving credit where II IS due. Hum
phries really pitched brilliantly after
pulling out OF his only perilOus posi-
ton through the assistance rendered
by the National league judge Of play
Barring that one round. the second,
ODay's slab expert was master OF all
he surveyed and should have BANKED
CaIIahan's troops in the last seven in
nings with alright support
No. only did EasCn muzzle the
South Slders and deprive them OF a
great opportunity, but n 50 doing he
ousted Buck Weaver from the game
and thereby removed one Of the main
ccgs from the White Sox fighting ma
chine.
Il all came about with two gone and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
GUNBOAT SMITH HAS
SHADE ON LEVINSKY

New York, Oct. 10.-Gunboat Smith
earned a shade decision over Battling
Levinsky last night at the Manhattan
Sporting club after 10 rounds OF unin-
teresting milling. Smith practically
made a one-hand fight OF it, using his
left throughout.
Smith took the lead in the opening
rounds, outboXing Levinsky, but his at
tempts were light and Ineffective.
Levinsky contented himself with keep
ing out of danger until the fifth SEES
sion, when he uncovered and outboxed
the Gunner, making the latter miss
with left hooks by a wide margin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10

YaIe's big gridiron problem this
year seems to be to find the right
men for the three important positions
of quarterback and the two ends. In
these positions the Blues eastern RI
walls already seem to be well equipped.
Yale is not.
There is no occasion, however, for
the Ellis to be greatly alarmed, as the
team as a whole looks promising.
From a spectacular point of view the
game that is now being played at Yale
is decidedly superior to any other
form of football ever seen in New
Haven in the recent contest with
Virgiaia the game was made up OF
double passes, forward passes, de,
layed passes, criss crosses, end runs
and split line plays of every sort, kind
and condition known to football
coaches. 1t was a revelation to those
who had no idea of what Coach Hin
key had been doing.
Two candidates for the Eli team
this fall who have shown up particu-
larly well in early practice games are
Chatfield-Taylor and Pumpelly. Pun
pelly was one of the stars of last
years eleven.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
St. Helena.

One OF the rocks of the island of St.
Helena bears a distinct resemblance to
the great Napoleon, so distinct, indeed,
that in the lod pre-Suez days passen-
gers on ships burned from India to
England were wont to crowd the decks
at sunset in the hope of catching Il
glimpse OF the marvellous likenss Of
the emperor whose facial contour used
TO appear every evening clear cut il
the last RAYS of the sun
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10

balls-OR Benz. 8. Hits-Of Benz, 2
in seven innings; off Wolfgang, > in
two innings. Wild pitch-Humphries
Left on bases: White SoX, 7; Cubs, z.
Time-1:56. Umpires-Chill at plate,
Eason on bases, O'Laughlin in left
field, Quigley in right field.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
CHALLENGE THE VICT0RS

Indianapolis, Ind, Oct 10-The win.
ners OF the worlds series between the
Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston
Braves were yesterday formally chaE-
lenged to a contest for the worlds
championship by the indianapolis
team, Federal league pennant winners
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
Explorer Hit In Battle.

Paris, Oct. l0.-CoIonel Marchand.
leader of several African expeditions.
has been wounded In the leg by the
fragment of a she'll lie was taken in
an ambulance TO Commercy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
SuIzer Files Petition.

Albany. n Y, Oct. 1O--A petition
designating William Sulzer as nomi-
nee for governor on the American
party ticket was filed with the secre-
tary of state yesterday by Mr.. Sulzer
himself. He said the petition con-
tanned 1000 names. 5000 more than
the number required
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
Air Mileage Reaches $1,000.

London, Oct. 10.-Up to the 2lst of
September air mileage since the be
ginning of the war amounted TO $1,000
miles. an average OF 1000 miles a day
The total time in the air was HOO
hours
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
.o1 Inch or more.

tended by fair weather in this vicinity
tonight and Sunday. with cooler and
probably frost tonight
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10

DAILY RIVER BULLETIN.

BLOOD stage. 80. Chre

For As hours: Only slight changes
in the Mississippi will occur from be-
low Dubuque 10 Muscatine.
J. ". SHERIER. Local Forecaster.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
STANDINGS.

YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
Worlds Series.
Boston, :; Philadelphia, l.
Chicago Series.
Cubs, 2; White Sex, 1.
New York Series.
Yankees, .; Giants, l.
st. Louis Series.
Game postponed, rain.
GAMES TODAY.
Wori5's Series.
Athletics and Braves at Philadelphia.
Chicago Series
White Sox at Cub park.
st. Louis SerieS.
Cards at Browns park.
New York Series.
Giants and Yankees at Polo grounds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
Yesterdays World
Series Figures

Paid attendance-2O.562.
Total receipts S49, 500.
National commissions share-s4,-
$3.50.
Players share-S26,805.
Each clubs Shares, 935.05.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10

aBatted for Benz in seventh inning.
Struck out-By Benz. , )Schulte
~. (Bresnahan): by WClfgang. >
Zimmerman, Humphries): by Humph-
RES. 3 CBenz, Breton, Roth). Bases on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-10
Cubs Now in Lead BY Single Game
HumPhries Twiris Good Ban
for the Winners.
YESTERDAY.
THEE GAME S.
HOW THEY STAND.

Played. Won. l
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-14
HARCR0VE To
OPEN EARLY
IN SEPTEMBER
BLOOMFIELD ACADEMY WILL BE
PERMANENTLY AT HOME IN
THIS FINE PROPERTY NORTH
OF CITY.

John b. Brown, supervisor of In
dian schools, is here from Muskogee,
comforting with the mayor and city
commissioners with regard to having
city water and sewerage connections
made with the old Hargrove College
property.
This property was purchased by the
government to be used as the Indian
school, taking the place of Bloomfield
Academy, which was burned early last
year. The property has been idle for
some time, but is in excellent condi-
tion, the government having purchased
it at ridculously low price.
The property was encumbered for
$40, 800 when the Hargrove College
went defunct, and the property was
forfeited to the people holding the
mortgage. They agreed to turn the
property over to the government for
school purchases il they were reim-
bursed for that amount. An appropri-
alton was urged by Congressman Car
ter and passed congress authorizing
the purchase of the property for
Bloomfield and it will be occupied
this year and the regular fall term
will begin September 20.
There are some minor repairs and
alterations to be made on the build
ings. but the property is easily worth
twice what it cost the government
at forced sale There are q acres
of ground with the property.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-14
MELON CROP A
MONEY MAKER
IN THIS COUNTY
TEN ACRES OF LAND AND SMALL
MELON PATCH is GETTING THE
MONEY FOR THIS FARMER WHO
HAS RENoUNcEo COTTON.

Last spring J. d. Robinson of this
city purchased ten acres of land
three miles east of the city and has
cleared three acres, which is produc-
ing a fine crop of melons this year.
He had the three acres cleared, and
the seed were planted June 8, just
after the last rain of early spring.
Now after two months and ten days,
he is hauling the finest kind of mel
ons to the local market, which he
finds ready market for at an aver
age of thirty cents each.
Mr.. Robinson states that another
year he will have the entire ten acres
in melons, and will have better crop
than anybody's two-hundred-acre cot
ton crop in this state.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-14
To Force Her Neutrality.

Paris, Aug. 1.-THE allied govern
ments have agreed to force Turkey
to realize her obligations to neutrali
ty.
John l.. Hermit, a French newspa
per man, who was on train between
Brussels and Liege, said that the Ger
mans stopped them at Landen that
fifty thousand Germans marched
through that city toward the front,
and that the German officers had said
that two million more Germans would
advance through Landen.
A German aviator dropped one bomb
at the railroad station at Vercul and
dropped two bombs in Lure today
The damage was small.
An official announcement says that
two German aviators pursued one
French aviator, who was reconnoiter-
ing near Lorraine. Each German car
ried men firing repeating rifles. The
Frenchman escaped.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-14
Lawyer Gets Liquor.

Guthrie, Okla, Aug. 13.-Judge A.
H. Huston in the Logan county district
court, has made a new ruling on the
liquor question. A few weeks ago At
torney Frank Dale ordered a ship
ment of two gallons of whiskey which
the city police promptly seized. At
torney Dale's demand for the liquor
was refused and he carried the de-
mand to the district court, where he
made oath that, while the amount was
more than the Webb law permitted,
the liquor was for his own private use
and not for any unlawful purpose. In
ordering the whiskey returned to At.
torney Dale, the court held that he
was entitled to it under the law as
there was no violation of the law in.
tended, even if it had been two bar.
rels instead of two gallons"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-14
TOTAL RAIN
FOR THE YEAR
At ARDM0RE
ABOUT THE AVERAGE is RECORD.
ED AT THE LOCAL OBSERVA.
TORY - RAINFALL FIRST SIX
MONTHS 13 80 INCHES.

The total rainfall for the year up
to this morning, as recorded at the
local observatory totals 1921 inches
divided as follows:
January, OBS, February 1.2S; March
S.O1; April 2.SS; May 617; June O13;
July O.16; August 325. Total 1921
inches.
The rainfall for the first six months
totaled 1880, which is about normal,
the average rainfall here being ap.
proXimately 80 inches.
The recent rains have been o. great
benefit to the cotton crop, and the
wheat growers are preparing 70 IN.
crease their acreage ever last year,
J. S. Alyerson, one of the biggest
wheat growers in the county, vas in
the city yesterday, and stated that he
would have in over three hundred
acres the coming year, and that the
recent rains were most favorable for
early sowing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-14
WILL CELEBRATE LABOR DAY.
Gainesville Makes Preparations to
Put On Bio Stunt.

Gainesville, Tex, Aug. ia Labor
day celebration will be held in this
city Sept and s. An elaborate pro
gramme is being arranged, on which
one of Gainesyille's celebrated Labor
day parades will hold an important
place. There will be band contest
in which many bands in Texas and
Oklahoma have already entered bron-
co busting, roping contests, baseball,
athletic stunts and an address by
ex-senator J. w. Bailey Monday and
Governor-elect Ferguson on Tuesday.
1t is expected that 10000 people will
visit Gainesville during the two days.
Two years ago 10000 visited here
during the one-day event.
The Cooke county fair has been
postponed until some date in October,
which will be definitely set in few
days
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-14
SAM 'S
CROWD MUST
QUIT CAMP
FIVE HUNDRED OR MORE NE.
GROES AT WELEETkA HAVE
BEEN ORDERED BY HEALTH OF
FlcER TO BREAK CAMP.

Weleetka, Okla, Aug. 1S.-Allowing
them ten days to pack their belong
ings and fix upon a destination, health
officers have ordered the five hun
dred or more negroes in Chief Sans
camp at Weleetka to break camp and
dispense in family groups. The death
rate is startlingly heavy in the camps
and the health officers fear that a
serious epidemic will develop unless
the negroes are scattered. For a time
the camp was carefully pOliced and
kept in good sanitary condition, but
the negroes have been in camp nearly
eight months and are becoming care
less. Chief Sam has been in Weleetka
for the past week, selling stock in his
company and raising money among
the negroes. His boat is still at Calves
ton and if it ever sails for the coast
of Africa, as Sam has promised, can
carry but a very small percentage of
the number of negroes to whom Chief
Sam has promised transportation.
Since Chief Sam has been in We
leetka, the negroes have worked them
selves into a semi-religious frenzy
shouting, praying and singing all night
until the people of Weleetka have
complained of the nuisance