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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17
COLTS ARE STILL ]:
LAST in TOURNEY
Klove's Team Rolls But 2,247.
in Tri- County and Fails to
Better Position.
MONMOUTH is STILL FIRSTE
Islanders viii Fight AIedo For Second,
Place in Final Contests In
This City Tonight. ~

Klove's Colts journeyed to Mon
mouth last evening where they rolled
the second series in the Tri-County
league, getting only 2247 in three
games and are consequently still hold
ing down last place in the race. The
Monmouth boys peeled off 2461 pins.
increasing their lead over. the Island
ers to 335 pins. The Aledo five rolled
1907 and are II pins ahead of the
Colts In the first series rolled at
Aledo. Monmouth copied 1924 pins,
Aledo 22OS and the Colts 2197.
Monmouth rolled the highest game
in the series last evening with $40
pins, displacing the Colts $50 made at.
Aledo. DR.. David of the Aledo team.
holds a temporary first place in the
single high game with 201.
Fight for Second.
A warm fight between the Island
ers and Aledo for second place is ex-
pected when the teams meet tonight
at thS Harms alleys. After the games
an inviting spread will be enjoyed by
the players. The trophies. to be award
ed the winners are now on display at
Lawyers cigar store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17
DANvILLE SIGNS
HEAVY HITTERS
Three Eye Club Claims Team
With Batting Average of
$50 for Season.

DanvilIe, Ill, March 17.-Whateyer
else Danville may have, it looks on
paper, at least, as though the town
would have very heavy hitting bah
club. Yes sir, it certainly looks good
on the figure pad, however it may
look when the uniforms are donned
and the lads take to the field.
With the signing up OF Frank
White. which took place in the office
of President Boyle the infield is salt
ed down and laid away in moth balls
until the lid is officially pried off in
about ten days. And it gives the
Speakers an infield which is among
the hardest hitting IN the Three-Eye.
l. leads off with White and Stacy.
hitting 1906 and .294 and winds up
with VogeI and Falk, hitting .2s7 and
.233, giving a general average of $50
and both Falk and Fogel say they
can improve considerably the coming
year.
The three outfielders already lined
up batted .S75 during the season of
1913, which gives the outfield an av-
erage of .254 the past season and
even with the pitchers, whose averages
are always low. the club will have a
cIouting capacity of about .275 as a
whole-and that is going some.
Meanwhile Manager Walsh is scout
ing about the country and has his
7es out for two rafting good hurlers
and an outfielder who is said to be the
regular little fielding kid and some
hitter
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17

Is missing. 1t will have to come
back You can't do anything with
out Christ
There are 100000 protesting
Christians In the United States-but
I don't believe there are 7,000,O00
who know what it means to live a
life fully surrendered to Jesus Christ.
And you in New York need to be-
ware. You church people think
you've got through ticket to heaven
/ on a Pullman palace car, with an
order left for the porter to wake you
up when the train gets into the yards
of the New Jerusalem, But you
haven't,
eff there weren't churches in this
city there wouldn't be a decent man
or woman left here IN six months,
and your real estate wouldn't be
worth % cents on the dollar. You'd
better keep your churches and make
them real churches, not social clubs.
The world is not disguised with
Jesus Christ But it is disguised
with the showers of spiritual cocaine
that your ministers are dousing you
with"
Sunday looked up and down the
row OF musicians on Ine stage as ne
said this. Then he went on:
I'm no spiritual masseur or
osteopath. I'm a surgeon, and be-
ieve in driving my scalpel to the hilt
into the fostering abscess that is
boring its way into your spiritual
vitals.
Most preachers are good fellows.
but they can't hit the ball. And
most church members have to resort
to tricks to raise money to pay their
preachers back salaries. Twenty
cents for an oyster stew, with lone
oyster in it. chasing around looking
for his brother! That's the way you
support your churches.
you need a revelation of God.
And you won't get it, let me put you
wise, by looking at a leg show or
sizing up some woman with not
enough clothes on her. to make a
patch for your elbow. You need the
old-time religion"
Billy's Work and Pay.
The following table gives the fig
ures of the various Billy Sunday cam
paigns conducted in recent years:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17
TAFT AGAIN REFUSES
OFFER FOR CUB STOCK

Cincinnati, Ohio, March 17.-Charles
P. Taft, majority stakeholder of the
Chicago National league baseball club,
has refused an offer of $750,000 in
cash. made by John T. Connery and
Frank d. Mayer, representing a syndi-
cate. of Chicago capitalists who desir-
ed to purchase. The price that Mr..
Taft has asked for the club was not
announced.
Although at the present time unwill
ing to meet Mr. Taft's figures, Connery
and Mayer said that the deal is not
altogether off. as they intend soon to
have a meeting of the. syndicate which
they represent TO see what can be done
in the matter
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17
Billy Sunday and Mrs. Sunday.

7 Lord, IS It u" the question asked Of
Jesus by the apostles when He said
that one of them was about to be-
tray Him. He told of Judas asking
the question, and, impersonating
Judas, exclaimed:
THE dirty, double-dyed villain,
But Christ was next to him, take it
from mel"
He told of the Garden of Geth-
semane, with one group of eight
apostles near the gate, another
group of three further inward, and
then Christ, all alone, in agony. The
modern church was something like
that, he said, with its vast numbers
of members on the edge of the gar
den, its smaller numbers little more
sincere, but true religion deserted.
He described the outer group as:
Those good-Lord-good-devi milk
and-water, chalk-and-vinegar hypo-
crites!"
THE whole world is going to hell
so fast that it's breakin' all speed
limits" he shouted. Then he went
on: IF you would only stand up
and profess Christ and say, Thy
will. not my will. be done, the dem
ons would bank their fires. hell would
be for rent and the devil'd be in the
hospital by the Fourth OF July.
But thereu be more of you lined
up in the front OF a theatre looking
at a leg-show than there will be lined
up near the front of a church. Your
churches are nothing but lot of
social organizations. The old time
fire. the old time longing for religion
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17
IN MAJOR LEAGUE
TRAINING CAMPS
Mscknen Trim Cubs in Fourth
Contest and Even Up on Ser
les With Two Apiece.
CALLAHAN IS DISCUSSED
Cav, Sex Seconds Act Like Minor
Lessuers-5Isekburne TO Star
at Short.

jacksonville. Fla. March 17-Phila-
s.,phis's world champion Athletics.
personaIiy chaperoned by Connie
pa,k. took the fourth game OF the
uries against the Cubs yesterday aft
sruoon. s to 4. The series thus stands
Two 10 two. with two more combats
70 be decided.
IDEAL weather conditions. as well as
the nature Of the attraction, caused g.
600 persons 10 fill the grand stands,
bleachers, and Jim Crow" sections Of
the local ball park. where the outfield
has = background of tall pine trees.
Instead OF the big league prices pre-
vziling at Tampa admission was of
the % and 80 cent variety
More significant than the crowd or
the result, however. was the new line
I'd inauguratsd by Manager O'Day with
a view 10 testing its efficiency. Capt
Tommy Leach, who took part in his
first game OF the season, was station
ed at third base. his old stand, where
he has not played regularly since 1908
With Pittsburgh. Zimmerman. whose
infeld jumps are qualifying him for
n acrobat. was shifted TO shortstop,
While Sweeney and SAFER filed their
accustomed positions. Schultz. John
ston. and Good manned the outer de-
lenses.
Callahan Rossts Players.
Sacramento. Cal. March 17.-After
watching the Sacramento Wolves whip
the White SoX Coos yesterday by a
score OF s 10 3. Manager Callahan re-
narked.
4 don't know why they started the
Federal league when there aren't
enough ball players IN the world for
two major leagues" ...
Such a bunch OF sore armed, charley
horsed ball players probably never
vas seen together before. as these
veil named Coos are. and there viii
be marked change in the physical
condition OF some Of them in short or
der or there viii be a chance for the
Federal league to stock up with more
recruits.
The only players on the second team
who appeared in good shape were
Billy Sullivan. the veteran OF the
bunch. and Russell BIackburne. an
other player OF experience.
son Regulars Win.
San Jose. Cal. March 17.-"Reb"
Russell tanned the ball players of
santa Clara university yesterday and
ne White Sox regulars won before
: good sized crowd, S to (.
The Sox secured revenge for the |
'eieat Of the Coos by these coIlegians 1
several weeks ago. Russell was in I
are form and allowed only seven scat |
cred hits He famed the side in the |
hnth inning. Errors were plentiful. /
Feds Go to School.
Shreveport. La. March I7-Chicago's |
'ederals had a terrific session Of train /
ns yesterday. and in addition were !
wen lessons by the experts of the /
quad IN the finer points OF baseball !!
s II is played in the big leagues.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17

New York. March 17-The greatest
surprise of his career awaited Billy
Sunday when, after an absence from
the metropolis for two decades, he
came here TO address a big revival
meeting in Carnegie hall. The last
time Billy, or. as he prefers not to be
called. Rev. William A. Sunday was
here. twas as center fielder of the
old Chicago White Stockings, some
twenty years ago. This time he was
batting for the Lord" and, as he
himself expressed it. he struck the
devil out. The surprise was in the
nature of the enthusiasm with which
he was greeted, and the size OF the
crowd. More than 5000 heard him;
fully 5000 we're turned away.
when l started to preach, friends,
Billy began his sermon, Il got die
tionary and strung together lot o
big words that'd keep Greek profess
sor's law a-squeakin' for a week-and
nv sermon didn't get over the plate.
famed.
81 thought it over for a while. and
then | said: oh. Lo-o-rd, I've had
IL doped out all wrong. The devils
the guy I'm after, and ! can't get
him with big words So / loaded the
old oratorical gun with rock salt, red
pepper. ipecac. aconite. saitpeter'
tacks. dynamite and barbed wire, and
/ let fly.
And when l let fly the devil took
II on the run, and every time l shoot
that charge now he's lookin' for
hole"
He took as his text the words.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17
CHICAGO GIANTS PLAN
LONG TRAINING TRIP

Chicago, Ill, March 1.-THE Amer
lean Giants. Chicago's great team OF
colored baseball players, will make a
spring training trip of nearly 10000
miles. The squad will return in time
to open the season at the Thirty-ninth
street grounds on April &c.
Manager "Rube" Foster announced
that he will leave for Palm Beach,
Fla. where his team has been playing
in the winter league The long tour
will Start March Is and take the team
over a southern route 10 Santa Maria,
I'm Southern California, where exhibit
ton games will begin. From there
Foster will lead the boys northward,
going as far as Victoria, b. G. The
team will return to Chicago by way OF
Idaho. Montana and North Dakota,
playing games On route.
Altogether 81 games have been
scheduled for the trip after the team
leaves Palm Beach, and several open
dates are left TO be filled in II pos
sible. Foster has secured several new
stars for his 1914 team. and expects
to regain the negro baseball cham
pionship Of the country. Last fall his
team was beaten for the title by the
Lincoln Giants of New York.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17
BASEBALL is POPULAR
AMONG FANS IN FRANCE

New York. March 17.-Baseball has
been taken up in France with great en-
thusiasm and will soon be a popular
sport there. according to w. II. Bur
CESS. president of the Vestinet (France)
baseball club. who arrived on the
steamer La Lorraine. Recently 5000
French fans saw a game at Dieppe,
said Mr. Burgess. The French base
ball players. he added. had taken TO
lighter garb. resembling somewhat
that OF the American track runners.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17
Illinois Highest Point Found.

Washington, March 1.-THE highest
point in Illinois is that known as
Charles Mound in Joe Daviess county,
which is 1,241 feet above sea level, &C
cording to a report made public yes
terday by the geological survey. More
than 1900 points in Illinois have been
measured under the direction of R. B.
Marshall, chief geographer, in CO.
operation with the state geological sur
vey of Illinois, F. w. DeWolf, director.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17
Illinois Leads in Zinc Smelling.

Washington, March 17.-Illinois led
in the smelling of zinc last year with
an output of 1O6,654 tons, according to
an announcement yesterday by the
geological survey. Oklahoma was sec
ond with 1924 tons, and Kansas third
with 74,106 tons The output in 1913
was the greatest in the history of the
industry.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17
Convicts Converted.

Ossining, n. Y, March 17.-Thirteen
convicts in Sing Sing prison were con
firmed Sunday in the Protestant
chapel by Bishop David H. Greer of the
Protestant Episcopal diocese of New
York. The chaplain at the prison had
instructed the candidates for confrma
ton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17
Child browns In Bath Tub.

Kansas City. No. March 17.-Glenn
Humphrey. 21z years old, son of f.
Frank Humphrey. prominent real es-
tate operator. was drowned in a bath
tub yesterday. The child wandered to
the bathroom and turned on the water
to play with the spray. He was found
dead in the partly filed tub. A chair
near by indicated he had climbed upon
Il and fallen into the water.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17
MISSOURI GOVERNOR WILL
ATTEND OPENING CONTEST

st. Louis, Mo, March 17.-Governor
Major has accepted the invitation of
the ST. Louis Federal league club to
attend the opening game of the season
on April 49, He will be attended by
his military staff in uniform. Special
ceremonies are planned by State Sena-
tor Michael Kinney, one of the hackers
of the local team.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17

New York-John ID. Archbold. pres
ident OF the Standard Oil company OF
New Jersey, denied that the company
would become a seller TO or a supplier
Of the oil monopoly provided for in
the German government petroleum
bill. under consideration In the reich
stag.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17

Manager Tinker formed a sort OF base
ball school in his camp with the big
leaguers as his faculty and began max.
ing stars OF the recruits.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-17
yyashin gton-Members of the cho

washin gton-Members of the choir
OF the RyIand Methodist Episcopal
church went on strike after the morn
ing service because IN his sermon Rev.
Edward Gallagher reproved the sing
ers for gossiping and whispering while
service was in progress. They demand
ed that the pastor apologize. and when
he declined TO do so announced that
they would no longer attend and that
there would be no more music in the
church until q new pastor was ap-
pointed
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-02
An Action That Counts.

Over in Hydeville, which by the way
is village in Castleton, a "get-togeth-
er" meeting was held the other night of
hotel men, cottage owners, trolley road
representatives and property owners in
terested in booming Lake Bomoseen and
OF heralding its attractions as a summer
resort. The men present not only talked
OF the possibilities of the resort but
they subscribed 81 600, every cent of
which is to be spent for advertising the
lake and its community. Advertising
space will be bought in newspapers. OF
the 81 900 raised, $500 of it was from
Bomoseen interests, $500 from the Della
ware & Hudson road, and like sum
from other transportation interests.
This action of the Bomoseen people is
the getting right down to brass brads,
down to the root of just the thing essen
tial to the bringing of the summer tour
ist into Vermont. and Bomoseen will get
all its money back ere the season is very
far advanced. Bomoseen is already a
resort with hotels and cottages, and peo-
pie will 90 there, thus benefiting all
Vermont Did other places in the state
have summer hotels and summer cot
tages for rent still more people would
come into the state. 1t is the veriest
folly to tell of Vermont's advantages as
a summer home and yet do nothing by
the way of the summer hotel and resort.
New Hampshire's income this year from
the summer boarder will exceed 81 ,000,
900. She built a hotel and then adver-
tised the fact from Boston to Panama.
White River Junction Landmark.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-02
War Time Exaggerations.

That it is always well, especially in
time of war, not to jump too hastily at
conclusions is shown by the news from
Vera Cruz that since the situation in
Mexico became acute not one American
civilians life has been lost. II was only
the other day that the newspapers
spread broadcast reports to the effect
that Americans had been butehered by
mobs in the streets of Mexico City, and
even had been dragged from the refugee
trains and shot down like dogs. These
reports were so circumstantial that their
authenticity hardly was questioned.
Now happily, we find that all these
narrowing stories, printed in good faith
by the newspapers, were without any
foundation in fact. Some refugees, it
seems, had been put into Jail, but this
course was taken by the Mexican au
thorities only to save them from harm.
1t is only natural in times like these
that such reports should spring into cir
culation, and the difficulty in mailing
them at once serves to give them an ap-
pearance of truth. In the present deli
cate situation we should be careful to
keep cool head and turn deaf ear to
the iingoist who, for selfish reasons of
his own perhaps, would prefer to plunge
the country into bloody and costly
war rather than accept the peace with
honor that seems in sight.--New York
Globe.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-02
Rural Vermont Conditions.

1t has become habit with some
writer's to term Vermont decadent and
to point to conditions in the rural Sec
tions of the state in manner that
might lead some to suppose certain back
districts were reverting to a state of
untamed sayagery. Guy Potter Benton,
president of the University of Vermont,
who gave an address here conference
week, sfiirms that it is unfair to our
state to claim conditions here worse
than in other states.
DIR. Benton believes one of the chief
causes of the conditions found in some
of the sequested hamlets of our state is
due to lack of church privileges. Many
have no religious services whatsoever,
others are supplied with young and in
efficient or old, WORKOUT preachers. But
this state of affairs is not peculiar to
Vermont. In 40 of the 16S townships of
Connecticut no church services are held.
In the western states, conditions are
still worse and in the northwestern
states, where there is a large foreign
population. we find but little interest
taken in the things that make for the
highest citizenship The result is that
we are raising up a crop of American
born heather" as DIR. Benton expressed
it. Let us look to the rural sections of
our state and make every effort to inn
prove conditions but, at the same time
not imagine ourselves worse than we
are.-Hardwick Gazette.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-02
A Professional Dynamiter Who Hates
His Job.

The American Magazine has been of
fering prizes for the best letters in the
contest entitled What | Am Most
Afraid Of" The prize winning letters
are published in the March issue. Fol-
lowing is an extract from a letter, by
professional dynamiter, which was
awarded third prize;
Il am most afraid OF my own work
This seems like queer statement, but
you may understand il better when /
say | am professional dynamiter.
Il entered this branch OF work when a
young man, and for the first six years |
handled high explosives in a careless
manner, YET at the same time / had a
great respect for the stuff. About this
time / had my first mistire and lost my
partner. l will not go into the details
OF that mishap as it is similar to many
others that appear in the papers. After
left the hospital, | seriously eonsid-
cred going into some other work; but
lack of knowledge, and the fact that ]
should have 10 work at another trade for
number of years before getting a fair
wage, held me back.
81 have been in tour explosions where
others lost their lives. and have seen
the results of many others. / am now
one OF the oldest nitro men in the bus
mess and am known among the shoot
ers by a sobriquet.
The others speak of me as a man
with a charmed life and the helpers pre-
fer TO work with me, vet all the time /
know that through no fault of my own,
may any moment add my name to the
'skyfyers,' as the dead nitro men are
known.
Il am often asked by spectators and
Others why l don't turn TO some other
work. Well. I usually turn it Off with
a smile or Jest, but the real reasons are
two little ones and little woman at
home. No one ever suspects il, but l
am most afraid Of my work"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-02
THE BENEFIT OF AMERICAN
OCCUPATION.

Possibly the occupation of the city
of Vera Cruz by the United States forces
will have its advantages for the Mex
lean populace along with the disadvan-
tages of having a foreign country take
forcible possession; and the advantages
are likely to prove of more lasting bene
fit than the other. We refer to the
overturn of municipal administration in
regard to such departments as santa
ton. No sooner had the sound of gun
popping died away than the officers of
the United States naval forces began "
systematic campaign to straighten out
The affairs of the city in this respect.
They found disease of many sorts raw
aging the people of the community, with
smallpox forming one of the most dan
gerous foes to public health and with
other forms of infectious disease laying
the people low in unusually large num-
bers. To protect the United States
troops already landed and those expect
ed to be landed during the campaign of
coercion of the Huerta government it
became necessary for the officers to take
active steps toward removing the condi-
tons that were breeders for disease; and
so they set forth in business-lke man
ner, cleaning up the foul places, drain
ing the wet land and giving skilled at
tention to the epidemics already fast
ened on the populace. And not only did
the free Mexicans of the city gain in
the vastly improved conditions that were
brought about within short time, but
the incarcerated people also derived a
distinct advantage, for the loathsome
prison, known as San Juan de Ulna, be-
hind whose walls poor, emacated speci
ems of humanity were kept in durance
vile, was closed by the order of the
United States military authorities until
the time when conditions would be inn
proved to such an extent that the prison
would be habitable. Thus the unfor-
tunate class, as well as the citizenry in
good standing, of the seized city received
the direct benefits of occupation by force,
to whom proper sanitation is an open
book through long experience in the
Philippine islands and Cuba and by
whom the necessity for proper sanitation
is held most imperative. We do not
hesitate in expressing the belief that
Vera Cruz will gain vast permanent inn
provement to recompense for the loss of
lives and destruction of property by the
invaders. And, for that matter, we be-
lieve there are countless towns and cities
in the United States itself which might
receive some greatly improved ideas in
sanitation if the military forces of the
country should be put in charge of them;
the Mexicans are not alone in backward
ness regarding administration along this
line.