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Evening star., 1914-07-06

Washington's recent forfeit OF
game to the Athletics revives a condi-
ton that the base ball lawmakers
should have remedied long ago. says
Hugh Fulleston.
The biggest joker in the rules OF the
national game is in the two defining
a legal pitch and a balk. Regardless
of the justice Of Umpire Ollie Chills
decision in striving to compel Engei
to deliver, the ball legally to the bat
ter and his forfeit of the game when
Griffith and his pitcher refused to obey
the order, Griffith had just cause OF
complaint. Chill undoubtedly was
right: yet at the same time he was
inf1icting punishment upon Engel for
an ofrense against the rules that are
indulged in by every pitcher. almost, in
the country.
The pitchers. or most of them, either
sneak a step or take a hop in de-
livering the ball, instead of standing
upon the rubber. facing the batter. as
prescribed in the rules.
No one knows this better than Man.
ager Griffith. When he was a pitcher
he cheated the rule almost every time
he pitched-and did it so cleverly that
II took a trained eye to tell whether
he took a step while pitching or
whether he stepped ahead Of the pitch.
so as to get the drive Of his body
into the pitch.
Usually the pitchers stick close to the
Evening star., 1914-07-06
RALK RULE IS ONE OF THE
Jokes OF BASE BALL CODE
Almost Every Pitcher Guilty of Violation and Without
Censure-Engels Alleged Ofense a Gen.
eral Thing Among Twirlers

law until the situation becomes threaten
ing. Then. knowing that the umpires
cannot watch everything, commence to
take a step. They all do 1t. either hop
ping clear OF the rubber or swinging the
foot back and then forward. Engel must
have made 1t rather raw
1t is rather picturesque justice that
Grinth should be punished for this, as
be Is one OF the greatest naggers at op-
posing pitchers who offend. He con-
stantly appeals to umpires to watch
his foot" usually knowing that the UNI
pire will not penalize the pitcher, but
hoping to make the pitcher change his
motion and step through fear of punish
ment.
The balk rule is just as much of a
joke to the skilled pitcher. He works
months to perfect q "balk motion
which is merely a balk made in such a
way as to dare detection by an umpire.
Every manager insists upon his pitch
ers developing 'balk motions
We had a discussion on the problem
Of balks at the White Sox park not long
ago. Three of us agreed to jot down
what we thought We're balks: Jim Scott
made eleven in five innings. his opponent
nine in six tnnings-and not one was call
ed and only three claimed. There were
twenty balks that We three agreed were
balks under the rules-and the umpire
paid no attention to them.
Plainly something ought to be done:
either permit baking or amend the rule
SO as to stop it entirely and make more
base running-which was the idea when
the rule was made
Evening star., 1914-07-06
Browns Grab Two Games.

DETROIT, July e.-St Louis won both
ends of a doubIe-header here yesterday.
the first, 6 to 8, in fourteen innings. and
the second. to O. in the regulation dis
tance.
The visitors took an early lead in the
first game because of Boehler's wildness.
bu. Hall. who relieved him. pitched fine
Hsnilttn vent the whole fourteen in
n.ngs for St Louis. and was strong in the
pinches. The winning run came on sin
giles by Shotten. Pratt and Leary.
Cavet got a bad start in the second
game. but wouId not have been scored
Evening star., 1914-07-06
American League Games.
White Sox Trims Maps.

CHICAGO. July ED Walsh made his
come back yesterday. He started
against Cleveland and pitched seven in
nings. allowing three hits and three bases
on balls. netting the visitors three runs.
lie was taken out TO let pinch hitter
bat for him in the seventh, and Faber
finished the game, which the White Sox
won, q to 3.
Chicagc's victory was due to q terrlnc
home run by Demmltt with the bases
filed iT the seventh. Score:
Cleveland .... 0o1 o 2 o 0 o-S
Chicago ...... 0 o. o 1t
Runs-Turner Chapman (2,. Berger C2,. Dem
rpitt. Fournier, S-halk. Daley. Two-base nNs-
Kirke -, Breton Three-hase hit-Chapman;
Home nin-Demmitt. Hits-on Walsh. In r.,
innings: of Faber . In innings. Sacfince NUS
-Bod!e. Walsh, blackburn Double play, nap
man to IAtoie to Kirke Left on nssesUeTe eon
land. s. Chicago. s. First base on pats.O!
Walsh. 3: of Faber 1: of Hagerman. = strueS
out-By Walsh, S: by Hagerman, =. Smp,rs-
Messrs. Dineen and Connolly. Time OF game
hours and minutes
Evening star., 1914-07-06

upon except for Burns error. He allowed
only three hits.
Heilman. though hit often, was alright
when danger threatened Scores:
st. Louis. 100000 10000 Oo01-e
Detroit ....... 2o1 900 . 20 100 o 0-5
Rups-Shottcn i2l, Pratt, c. Walker Leary,
Wares, Bush t2. Witt (2l. Heilman Two-fase
hits-Aus'in, Leary. Threebase hit-veach.
Homo run-Heilman. Hits-OT Boehler, 3 in /
inning mon" out in second) OF Hall, l2 in IT
innings. Sacrifice hits--Hamilton i2, Heilman,
VIII '2,. Sacrifice fiies-Crawford, Pratt stolen
hase.-bush e.. G. Walker. Double plays-Bush
10 Stanagc Bush to Burns. Left on bases
St; Louis, IL: Detroit o. First base on balls
on Boehler, 81 OF Hail. 2; OF Hamilton, 2. Hit
BY pitcher-Ry Hamilton, =; Struck out-By
Hall, 4; by Hamilton. 4. Wild pitch--Hamilton.
Cmpires -Messrs, Egan and Evans Time OF
game hours and 46 minutes.
st. Louis ....... O o O o O O %
Detroit ............. 0 o D D 0 o o o %
Rgns-Shotten; 9. Walker. Hits-on Cavet. q
in innings. Double plays-Leary to Lavan to
LeaFy: Witt TO Burns to Baker: Weilman to
Iavan to Leary. Left on bases-St. Louis, 3;
Detroit. 8. First base hails-On Cayet .
Struck out-Isy Caret. 6; ny Weilman. 8. TIM.
pires-Messrs. Evans and Egan. Time Of game
/ hour and 20 minutes.
Evening star., 1914-07-06

ming for the championship Of the North
west Sunday School League. II Raw
lings leaves 1t will take out Of the line
up man who is hitting over 800 and
quently and scoring often himself. Just
what the loss Of such an offensive player
means to a team can well be realized.
The race in the Central League in the
second series bids fair to become one OF
The Kenilworth club will put forth every
effort in order to finish in front again.
thus doing away with the necessity OF
Anal series of three or five games, whlie
there are three other mines that are not
going to see the honor slip away from
them IL there is any way to prevent II
The lure of that final series with henii-
worth, while will decide the title, Is
drawing Waverly. Emeralds and SneI-
wood to show the very best thae Is ~,
games will be seen before the scneouie
is ended.
Coach Hecox of the Analostan Boat
Club does not feel that the decision
made by the referee in the regatta AZ
crew, although it won, was dfsquanned'
was Just. Hecox thinks there was alb
solutely no reason for forfetung the
race. and he expressed himself thus IN
regard TO lnS HldlteT
. 81 see no reason on earth wny tne
referee should have disqualified my
crew after 1t had won. We defeated the
other boats in the race by such Dig
margin that there was no question M as
began to pull away after the first quar-
ter, and after that steadily increased
their lead. until they were more than
two lengths in front at the finish.
1T is Unfortunate that my crew crowd
ed the boat of the Undine Club some
what near the island. but it was not any
thing to cause the speed OF that boat 10
be lessened, nor did it interfere with the
chances of that crew in the least The
referee called to my crew 70 ee. over; ~
which il did at the sacrifice OF some OF
its speed I was never more surprised
in my life than when I learned after tne
race was over that my crew mao peen
disqualified. and that notwithstanding
a victory by such a decisive margin do
to leave no room for protest.
s.To show lust how much those present
are not in accordance with the referee
decision. President Pairo of the AnaIos-
tan Club told Manager Nevius that ne
was very. very sorry the event had
turned out as 1t did and that the ooss
really deserved the honor OF winning
So much so did he feel that his boys
had not received as good treatment as
might have been accorded them that ne
said he would make them presents OF
lust the same kind OF prizes they would
have received had they been given Wnat
is claimed as their due Mr. Palro foi-
lowed the race very closely and was in
a better position at all times to watch
the event than was the referee The
clerk of the course was in the same
launch with Mr.. Pairo, and he is said TO
have concurred In the opinion That de-
cision unfair to Analostan had been rem
dered.'
Evening star., 1914-07-06
Carpenter Gets $2oyo 900 Offer.

SYDNEY, n s. w, July 6.-Georges
Carpenter. middleweight champion of
France. was cabled today an offer OF
$4,000 to meet Jimmy Clabby of Ham
mond, Ind, claimant of the middle
weight championship of the world The
offer was made by promoters of the
Stadium here. C1abby's latest victory
was July I. when he won from Eddie
McGoorty Of Oshkosh. Wis. on foul.
Evening star., 1914-07-06
HOBBY BAKER AT BERLIN.
Princeton Athlete With Harry Smith
to Compete in Games.

LONDON. July 6-The American ath.
letes. Homer Baker. who won at STAN.
ford Bridge Saturday. and Harry smith
with Trainer Jack Kelly. went to Ber.
lin yesterday. where they are entered ir
the German track meet July II. Here
Baker will have a dangerous competitor
in Braun of Berlin. who ran close to TED
Meredith in the last Olympics
The two athletes will go to Stockholm
to compete in the Swedish meet july
10. and after spending a few weeks
there will 20 to France. where they Will
compete in the French national meet al
Lyon.
Evening star., 1914-07-06
Hartfords Claim Title,

The Hartford Midgets.> having a clean
record Of twenty-four straight wins
against District teams and having de-
feated such strong mines as the Brook
land Recruits. the Georgetown Junior
Props, tie Rough Rider Midgets and the
Yankee A. c., claim the championship for
the fifteen-year-olds of the District. All
teams disputing this claim address Brooke
Beyer 1872 Park road.
Evening star., 1914-07-06

Printed for the benefit of the foreign
population: London is first in the Cana
dian League. Paris is last in the Ohio
State League. Rome is third in the Geor-
sia-Alabama League. Venice is first in
the Pacific Coast League Birmingham is
third in the Southern League Toledo is
fourth in the South Michigan League.
York is last in the Tri-State League,
Waterloo is third in the Central Associa-
ton. and Cairo Is third in the Kitty
League. 1t is to be regretted that Ber-
lin. Pehing and Canton were obliged 10
transfer their teams
Evening star., 1914-07-06
MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS.

FEDERAL LEAGUE.
Chicago. 2. Kansas city. 1.
ST. Louis. 6; Indianapolis. 8.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Milwaukee. o: Kansas City, g.
Minneapolis, 8: st. Paul, 1 (frst rame)
Minneapolis. Z: St. Paul, tsecond game.
Columbus. I: Indianapolis. (irrt game).
Cleveland. Z; Louisville. 4 (nst game.
Cleveland, 8; Louisville, (second camel
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Providence. 7: Baltimore, 5.
Newark, 8: Jersey City, o (hrst game)
Newark. 4; Jersey City, second camel.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
NsssRile, Ms%Rhls; :; &; ris%in59sa as~ 51isa., 2
TEXAS LEAGUE.
Dallas. 9: Austin. 0 tnrst game,
Dallas. 8; Austin, (second game
Waco. I; Fort Worth. (hrst game.
Beaumont, 4: San Antonio, (irst 9ame).
San Antonio. II; Beaumont, second same).
Galveston. s; Houston, /.
KIT. LEAGUE.
owensboro. To- Henderson, g.
Cairo. 4; Paducah. 2.
EASTERN ASSOCIATION.
Pittsfeld, 4; Bridgeport, /.
New Haven. 3; New Britain. o.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
Denver. Z: Sioux City. L.
Omaha. 4; Lincoln. 3.
Des Moines, Z; Wichita. Q.
Topeka, 8: st. Joseph. 5.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE.
Sacramento. 8: San Francisco, 2 ta.m.).
San Francisco. 4; Sacramento, (p.m.).
Los Angeles. II: Oakland, {a.m.j.
Oakland. .: Los Angeles. fpm.).
Portland. 4: Venice, 2 (a.m.).
Portland, 4; Venice, 3 (p.m).
Evening star., 1914-07-06

Sam Crawford in the American League
and Jack Dalton in the National have the
best chance to reach the hundred marx
in base hits first Sam is thirteen hits
away. and Jack nineteen shy.
Evening star., 1914-07-06
WILLIAM J. C[OTH|ER
BEATS THEODORE PELL
Quaker City Tennis Star Wins From
New Yorker in Finals at
Glen Cove.

GLEN COVE. L. T.. July 6.-Theodore
K Pell of the West Side Tennis Club did
not live up to the promise that he gave
saturday by his brilliant play in the
doubles and was defeated in the final
round OF the singles at the Nassau Coun-
try Club here yesterday by William j.
Ciothier OF Philadelphia, three sets to one,
with scores at 81, e1. 2-6. 60.
The Philadelphian played remarkable
tennis and even the sterling backhand
strokes of the New Yorker could not pre-
vail against his defense Pell used all
nus wiles in trying to hit them where
eiotnler wasn't, but there was no such
place. Tor the latter with very little effort
Just stretched out and returned practi-
caiiy everything that Pell put over. The
fact that the Philadelphian did return
nearly everything did not count for SO
much as the way he returned them, for
he used a sharp cut that had Pell almost
Of the turf.
Clothier came to the net very often and
when he did almost invariably scored, for
his great reach made II next to trnposst-
pie for Pell to pass him. Pen did the
most OF his work in deep court and tried
TO direct his attack so that his rival
would have to play Deep but even these
TACTICS did not gain much for the West
SIDE man, for Clothier was very strong
on his ground strokes. The third set was
the only one in which the loser made
any marked attempt to stay in fore court
and the fact that he won this set would
tend to show that IL he had played in
throughout the match he might have
Jared better.
The Summaries.
Men Invitation singles. final rcund-wflism
a Ciofhier defeated Theodore r. Pell. 81.
FIRST SET.
Pell; e41 5414344 2n-7
Clothief.. 3 1 5 SIS 4 4-54-e
SECOND SET
r,iis; Zen eiis;;;:.-.------.----- 21o 2 2-1s1
Niotuler 4-3e6
THIRD SET
Clother. .......... 5 i 2 6 2 o-SGS
FOURTH SET
feu i o. 90
Clothier. 1866
Recapitula tion-Clothier. 3 sets: Pell. ] set;
Clothier. % games: Pell, IA games; Clothier.
1872 points; Pell, 107 points.
Evening star., 1914-07-06

Conditions in the Boston Braves must
be appalling when Pitcher Hub Purdue
welcomed a trade that takes him to st.
Looey.
Evening star., 1914-07-06
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
AMERICAN LEAGUl
st. Louis, 8: Detroit, 5.
st. Louis, 2; Detroit. 0.
Chicago 6; Cleveland, 3.
NATIONAL LEA0UE
Chicago, s; Pittsburgh, 4.
Cincinnati, Z; st. Louis, O.
Evening star., 1914-07-06
SCHEDULES.

AMERICAN LEAGUE.
TODAY TOMORROW
Boston at Washington. St Louis at wash'n
New York at Phila. Detroit at Phia delphia
Chicago at Boston.
Cleveland at New York
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
TODAY TOMORROW
Brooklyn at Boston.
Evening star., 1914-07-06

For Other Sports See Page IS.
Evening star., 1914-07-06

ming for the championship of the North
west Sunday School League. II Raw
lings leaves 1t will take out of the line
up a man who is hitting over 800. and
who has been driving in runs very fire.
quently and scoring often himself. Just
what the loss of such an offensive player
means to a team can well be realized.
Evening star., 1914-07-06
The Summaries.

Mems invitation singles. hnaI rcund-wtlltam m
J. Clothier defeated Theodore r. Pell a..
81. 2-6. 60.
Evening star., 1914-07-06

Harry Collier. the right handed
n,tcher Grifiith obtained this spring
from the Georgia University. who was
farmed out to the Des Moines club of
the western League. has been returned
to Griffith by Manager Isbell of that
club. 1t seems that Collier did not
come up to expectations. The young
ster will not be held by the local club.
however, and arrangements have been
made to send him to Atlanta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-12
|E:lDRE|GN EXCHANGE ' THROWN IN BREACH \ ID KEEP GOLD HERE Examples of Thrilling Res cues Made in Times
 of Stress IMORGAN'S WORK IN THE CRISIS OF 1895 Max May Now Regarded as Greatest Expert in This Country on All
 Matters Relating to For
 eign Exchange
By HOLLAND

New York, August 11.--(Special.)-In lsso ehe government at Washington was pow erless to prevent withdrawal of gold from the treasury for the purpose of export Ing 1t to meet the demands of London and Europe. But American bankers under took to prevent exports of that kind for six months. In order to insure these bankers against loss, President Cleveland marketed government bonds with them at price below the market quotations The late J. P. Morgan, In association with August Belmont, who was the American representative of the Rothschilds, was able to prevent the exporting of gold ex- cepting one shipment of N.0Oo,ooo. This was done through the utilization of foreign exchange. When the demands came from London and Europe, which otherwise would have been responded to by exports Of gold, MT. Morgan furnished foreign ex- yAange.
 But in order to secure this exchange it was necessary to search the American markets for wheat bills. cotton bills and other bills, and when these were not to be obtained in sufficient quantities to is sue personal bills.
 \ Then, too, when MT. Morgan wanted to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-12

volved in such requirements as these and to the inability of the interstate com merce commission to know enough about the status of a particular railroad to say whether it should be permitted to issue securities for the improvement or required to pay for it with some asset already on hand. But the worst feature of the bill apparently is the right given to one state to interfere if it wishes with railroad development in another, The writer declares that no railroad should or would object to regulations requiring it to expend the proceeds of its securities only for such construction or such pur- poses as are properly authorized by law. He says that no railroad should or would object to filing with the railroad commits sion statements of all securities issued and the purposes for which the proceeds were used, so that the commission might check up and find whether any of them have been illegally issued. There would be no objection, he says. to the commits sion determining whether railroad should be allowed to purchase any water transportation or trolley line, nor would there be any objection to having the commission investigate and pass uron all proposed railroad expenditures which are not within the strict purposes of a railroad corporation.
 senator Vests correspondent is not seeking to oppose the entire Rayburn bill, but only these few features of it which he considers would unquestionably restrict and practically prohibit further
 railroad development in the southern
 state where such development is so
 greatly needed. He expresses the opinion that laws should be enacted which would effectively prevent anything like repe- tition of the famous and recently dis closed New Haven deals. But at the same time he contends that in such legislation there should be no such drastic punish ment imposed upon the south. section which had nothing whatever to do with that infamous piece of railroad robbery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-12
Real Estate Transfers

The following real estate transfers were yesterday recorded in the office of the probate judge:
 S9o00-Robert Jemison. Jr. to Elizabeth F. Wilbourne, d piece of land 90 by 240 bordering on Eleventh avenue and block 6S6, Birmingham, and apart of lot 5. ac- cording to Eyton Land company's plat.
 $l000-S. r. Teague to Samuel T. Mich ael, the surface right of the south 7371k feet of the southeast quarter of the south east quarter of section 2s, township Is, range 1 west.
 sls0o-L. Schulhoefer to Joseph c. Ca- tanzano, lots :. 8. 9, TO- il and P, in block 4, and lots 1, 2 and 1 in block 1; all To- eated in Locasio and Catanzano's subdi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-12
TALKS ON THRIFT
The Best Reason for Saving

"During the hard times we are forced to be prudent and thrifty, and in conse- quence get rich faster than we do in what we call prosperous mes.''--Stuyve- sant Fish.
 The man who has looked upon saving as an almost hopeless task, with the interest earned scarcely enough reward for his efforts. ought to change his views because of the great opportunities now presented to those who have saved.
 Pick up almost any newspaper and you will see unusual real estate opportunities because owners need the money and will sell at sacrifice. That is where the thrifty man comes in He looks upon savings as capital. which if invested opportunely will yield many times the usual rate of interest.
 For example. the other day we read this little advertisement in the "Clas- sified" section of a newspaper:
 '"rhis place must be sold at once. Any reasonable offer considered, as I need the money"
 Such an advertisers extremity is the savers opportunity, because he can use his savings to buy piece of real estate at price which will net him good profit when this temporary depression and period of liquidation Is over, which will be very soon. unless all signs fail.
 Perhaps in this very newspaper there Is advertised Business Opportunity which appeals to you and which you might take advantage of if you had some extra money available for the purpose. The only certain way to be ready for business opportunities is to save and deposit in the bank. To most money earners the question of acquiring capital resolves itself into turn ing as much as possible of the earnings into permanent investment fund. Build up savings account in some good bank with the purpose of being ready for your opportunity when 1t: comes to you, q it surely will. sooner CT later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-12
NEEDS OF MINISTRY DR. FOSTERS TOPIC.
Birmingham Pastor Speaks Before Presbyterian
 Conference

Asheville, N. C., August n.-tSpecialo The Rev John s. Foster. D. D., of Bir- mingham. was one of the recent speakers is being largely attended by Presbyte- rians from all over the south.
 Other speakers besides Dr. Foster were the Rev. A. c. Bridgman of Hampden
 Sydney, Va. and the Rev. Walter l.. Lingle. D. D.. of Richmond
 The address of Dr. Foster was on the
 importance of and needs of the ministry.
 Speaking of the work of recruiting the
 ministry, Dr. Foster suggested the fol-
 lowing policy as one that would be eff fective in this connecticut 1. A concerted
 effort upon the part of the entire church, a campaign in the interest of the larger
 ministry similar to that in the interest of home and foreign missions. ?. A call to importunate prayer in this interest. 3. The presentation of the claims of the ministry from the pulpit. 4. The func- tions of the ministry should be empha- sized in the home. 5. There should be conversation and life work and the claims of the ministry should be presented in this way. 6. College presidents should present the claims of the ministry to students under their care. [. An annual conference on this subject should be held | in every presbytery on this subject, pref erably at the spring meeting.
 Dr. Foster spoke also of the religious press in this connection and expressed regret that so little on this subject ap- pears in the columns of the church pa l pers. He spoke of these papers as a medium through which to represent this 1 important work and urged that the pa
 pers be used more freely for this pur- pose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-12

vision of block sl of Walker Land com panys addition to Birmingham.
 Sl650-J. l.. Evans to C. $. Mixer. lot 4 in block tS3 survey of North Birmingham Land company.
 Sia00-Martha P. Michael to Nathaniel Barker part of lots 1 and 2, in block b. Waverly Place.
 Sg00o-Rebecca P. Anderson to J. B. Adams, lot and west half of lot '. in block 1, survey of Elyton Land company.