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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
PRICE At
PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME
Admission Reduced by the
Feds Because Fans Have
Not Sufficient Money.

The Federal League" observed
Ban Johnson recently. disclosed it's
| weakened condition when it reduced
the price of admission to its parks to
minor league rates"
Not at ALL" says John NJ. Ward
in rebuttal. an reducing the high
| cost of the game. the Federal League
is just a step ahead of Organized
Baseball The lowering OF prices on
! our circrit was only DONE after a
careful study of economic conditions.
and is far from being an evidence of
weakness.
Before our charges were lowered
in Brooklyn. for instance. l made a
careful personal study of conditions
all over the Federal circuit. l talked
with every type of fan. from the man
III the bleachers to the man in the
box. The inauguration of so and %
cent major league ball in Brooklyn
was the result.
"A talk had with a fan In Balti-
more is typical OF what l struck dur
ing my investigation.
Il got on a car coming away from
the Federal park after a particularly
exciting game with Otto Knabe's Ter
rapins The car was crowded. and l
found myself damned up against a
young fellow, neatly but plainly
dressed, typical of the average fan.
Pretty good game today, don't you
Think l observed as the car started.
You said it.! he answered. en-
Enthusiastically.
Come to the games often?' ] in
quired.
| like so much as a good ball game.
Last season 1 used to see about three
or four n week. This year I'm lucky
TO take in one.
What's the natter l asked.
" Works too uncertain these DAYS
he replied Cant afford to pay out
That's why the Federal League re-
duced prices Economic conditions de-
manded II.
Hugh Fullerton's attendance fig
ures showing the big slump in patron
age that all leagues in organized base
ball have experienced vindicate our
Judgment They show that the Ma
tional League, despite the great draw
ing power of a championship team in
New York and a fairly close pennant
chase. in which several teams have
shown unexpected strength, has lost
about 80 per cent in attendance. The
American organization, while not hit
so hard, has lost around 20 per cent.
In New York. with its wealthy and
amusement seeking floating popula-
ton. IL is hard to gauge conditions
as they really are. In Chicago II is
the same to a lesser degree. But the
other cities on the major league cir
cult feel a money stringency Keen
ly, and they will not pay high prices
for entertainment in times like these.
Instead of making a mistake. we be-
lieve that in reducing our prices We
have done something that will count
heavily in the long run with the fans.
And as soon as they realize that a
lowering of prices does not mean an
inferior brand of ball they will rally
to our support in appreciation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
Will Accommodate 5000
Fans to See Big Match

NEWPORT. r. J.. July 2.-There will
be seating capacity for 5000 persons
at the Newport Casino for the national
lawn tennis tournament here next
month. The governors Of the Casino
have lust contracted for two extra
Erandstands in the hope OF satisfying
the unusual demand for seats this year.
Under the old ARRANGEMENTS all of the
boxes have long since been taken and
many who were not fortunate enough to
get boxes have engaged reserved seats
for the tourney. Realizing that with the
bic demand the old stands would not be
large enough this year. the governors
took the matter under consideration and
they have arranged for a low stand in
front OF the boxes, with r seating ca
pacity of 500 and for another stand
across the southern end of the cham
pionship court space. with a seating
capacity Of Lo62.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
AMERICAN TENNIS
TEAM NAMED TODAY
Selection Expected in New York
Following Meeting of Davis
Cup Committee.

NEW YORK. July 22.-onicia1 an
nouncement Of the selection Of the
American Davis Cup team was expected
here today. A meeting of the Davis
Cup committee was held today in the
office Of Robert d. Wrenn, chairman
The committee authorized the add
ton of LOO seats to the stands being
erected at the West Side Tennic Club IN
Forest Hills. l. l.. where the Davis Cup
matches are to be played, August Is, IA.
and Is. The seating capacity will then
be 11,eOo. Nine thousand seats have al
ready been sold. 1t was announced, ind
t is expected that not a seat will re-
main on sole by August 1.
Following the meeting today Wrenn
and George T. Adee, another member
Of the committee, were to leave for
Chicago to see the Austrian-Canadian
elimination matches at Lake Forest, Ill.
Wrenn expects to return In time TO
meet the British team, due here on the
Baltic next week.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
Her Who Waits.
uddenly she bit her lips and clenched

Suddenly she bit her lips and clenched
her hands.
What If he never comes backT' she
whispered, and felt suddenly faint. She
hadn't thought of that.
From where she sat she could hear
soft music; music that he also had
listened to there beside her-how long
ago! Already it seemed an eternity
"Oh,, IL he should never come backr'
she breathed again, and shuddered with
the CHASTITY thought or the long, empty
wait.
, She wished now that she had never
sent him-anything would have been
better than this horrible suspense.
She thought she saw people looking
at her curiously, pityingly, as If they
knew she was waiting for him and as
IL they knew he would never come
The music sickened her; she felt gfddy.
He did not, then, intend to return!
But that step She listened suspen-
sively. Yes, thank heaven. 1t was his!
He had come back! oh, joy. oh.
rapture!
Softly he slid before her the shad
roe she had ordered an hour before.
and as softly departed.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
BASEBALL EXPECTED
TO C|V|L|zE MEXICO
Captain Leonard, Returning
From Vera Cruz, Thinks
Game Has Good Effect.

MANSFIELD. Ohio, July e2-"The
game, of baseball will civilize Mexico"
declares Capt. John c. Leonard, O. s. ",
who is here for visit with his brother.
Captain Leonard was in command of
the U. S. S. Virginia when Vera Cruz
was taken, and is en- route from that
Mexican port to his home in Brooklyn,
having been placed on the retired list
"At least, 1t will have a great influ-
ence in that direction" continued Cap
tain Leonard Baseball will supplant
bull fighting. In Vera Cruz on the cor
ner lots boys are now playing the game
There is something about baseball which
has an element of fair play, and that
is being assimilated by the Mexicans"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
PLEASE, MAY WE PLAY?

BOSTON. July 22With rule against card playing issued by
Hickey there of the athletes who try to break it.
4 airy play, they the boss if it all right
the athletes coming about O'Clock from
double bill with the worlds champions rather
ewhen
10y Mitchell the twi Rckeys table after he had fin
meal and asked something like this:
Branch would be o. K with started little card
game?"
manager inquired going play he
would be all right he guessed the hotel folks had
nothing against it
the kind Of spirit like see" said Boss Hickey, after
He and would be O. K: with
of sneahng playing think of
ga Ike
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
How It All Happened.

After lsmping various accounts from
various exchanges with various experts
at the front covering the Smith-Car-
pentier battle, we find the following &C.
CURED:
!. Smith never touched Carpenter
and the Frenchman faxed his injury.
?. Smith slugged Carpenter on the
back of his spine when he was down
and deserved to lose
3 Referee CORR made a big mistake
and lost his head.
l. Referee CORR did the only thing
he could have done in any fairness.
But strangely enough, through all the
turmoil we have still been able to sleep
and eat as If Smith ana Carpenter
had never met.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
What's i'm a Name.

What is the name Of your automo-
bile?"
Il don't know
You don't know? What do your
folks call it?'
''Oh. as to that. father always says
The Mortgage brother Tom calls 1t
The Fake mother, My Limousine
sister Our Car grandma, That
PERIL the chauffeur. Some Freak, and
our neighbors, The Limit. Life.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
MIKE Is HERE

Mike Mitchell, the latest player
to join the ranks of the Griff-
men, is in the Capital, but he
brings little to the team. In
seventy-three games with the
Pirates this year, Mitchell
went to bat 257 times, scoring
thirty-one runs on sixty-four
hits. He hit eleven doubles,
five triples and two home runs.
He stole five bases and made
seven sacrifice hits. His bat
ting average was .249.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
Chappell Recovered.

JERSEYVILLE. Ill. July 22.-Larry
Chappell. s1S.0o0 White Sox outfielder,
who has been out of the game az >ea-
son. following an attack of hlOcd poison
ing, will Join the Sox when they return
from the Eastern invasion on Saturday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
Can You Beat It?
The Dope of Yesterday,

Where again Is the dope of yester-
day? Nine weeks ago Pittsburgh. for
the first time in years. had passed up
her bad start and was leading the
league with an early dash at a flag
winning pace. And now, for the first
time in fifteen years, Pittsburgh is in
death grapple for the cellar title.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
Among the Minors.
Tn-State League.

Harrisburg, S; Trenton. 3 first game).
Trenton, 4; Harrisburg. second
ame).
Allentown, Z; Lancaster, 0 first
ame).
Allentown, 3: Lancaster, (second
reading, II; Wilmington, (flrst
-ame).
Reading. s; Wilmington, (second
-ame)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
Cheer Up.

There's one consolation any way. I'm
less an untOward situation develop and
We have the hardest luck of luck, the
baseball championship will still stick I'M
der the Stars and Stripes. 1t will be
some months, if not longer. before they
wrest this emblem away from our
Eaunt shores.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
international League.

Montreal. 7: Toronto, 5.
Rochester, S: Buffalo, 4.
Rochester, .; Buffalo. o.
Baltimore, Z; Jersey City. T.
Newark. 4; Providence. (n.ne in
nings-darknels.l
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
Southern Association.

New Orleans, Z; Atlanta, l.
Birmingham. 5: Chattanooga, 1
Mobile. 5; Memphis, l.
Montgomery, 8; Nashville, !.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22

trying to job you?
Corbett cooled down at once and went
to his corner with John Dempsey. while
Dempsey hurried over to the referee and
put in a counter claim of foul on the
ground that MitchelIs seconds had en-
tered the ring during the time OF fight
ing. Right then and there Honest John
showed his good judgement by ordering
all the seconds out of the ring. and COM
pelling the two principals to resume
fighting.
In the next round Corbett fought
fiercely, but with elaboration, and after
knocking Charley down with a left hook
to the jaw, he finished him with ter
rifle right swing to the point of the chin.
II was one of the hardest blows / had
ever seen delivered, and 1t sent Mitchelfs
head against the padded floor of the
ring with deadly force. He did not move
a muscle as Referee Kelly tolled off the
fatal ten seconds, and Corbett was de-
clared the winner.
Thousands of dollars had been bet
on that fight, and a purse OF 100000
went to the winner, the loser not get
ting a dollar, excepting the bonus Of
$500 that Corbett had agreed to give
Mitchell on his appearance In the ring
There were several Clevelanders at
the rlnRSlue IUdI udN HI
Among them were NJ. A Bradley, the
late Al Johnson. Capt. A. R Rumsey.
Chris Grover, Charles Townsend, Col
John Boyd. and others whose names do
not occur to me at this time.
In London Thursday, Gunboat Smith
was doubtless guilty of technical.
though harmless foul. but Carpenters
seconds committed a similar breach OF
the rules by going into the ring before
a decision had been rendered. Referee
CORR should have sent all parties TO
their corners and made the fighters re.
sumo their battle. BY doing so he would
have avoided a lot OF scandal, and would
have been doing justice all around.
From this distance and judging by the
various reports from the ringside, IT
looks as il Mr.. CORR acted the part or
a crude amateur as referee. Technically
he would have been right in deciding
against Smith had he done so promptly:
nut he made a grievous error In permit
ting the Frenchman's seconds TO enter
the ring, and argue him into rendering
the decision against Smith.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
Blngles And
BuntS
By GRANTLAND RICE.

Marquard's Soliloquy.
So l am all in, down and out;
So l was headed on my way;
So I was verging on a rout
And pointed to the uncut hay?
Well, let it listen as it sounds;
But, while we lift one parting cup
Who BANKED the Pirates 20 rounds
And hung another record up?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
In Hiding.

Hips are coming in again.
"Hurrap! Now mother can come oacf
from Europe. Judge.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
Virginia League.

Norfolk g. Roanoke. o.
Richmond. 3: Petersburg, ].
Portsmouth. 4; Newport News. Cen
laain&D.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
RABID RUDOLPH SAYS



Now that baseball peace L. assured. the
whole world Is quiet. exec, Iexico. Ulster.
Haiti. Dominica. Nicaragua, London mill
tants Albania. warburs-Jones. and two or
three hundred other little places
Pitman, Neso Jersey, mos died Of
heart failure playing quoits. Fep more
brutal exhibitions of this kind, and the
Americas public soiH toitbdrop Its f.
naneiaI support from the game.
Good that the team at last won Was
beginning to fear that Germany Schaef-
er's trained moth had gotten into the
team.
Don't be too harsh on those SIX Tn
State players who wouldn't board
train until they received two weeks
back salary. Maybe they couldn't.
Although Carbajal is batting for
him, Huerta insists on doing all
his running himself.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
HONEST JOE1 IN KELLY IS
TOO FOXYFOR FIGHTER

ing at the same time: Jim for Heavens
sake be a man. Can't you see they are
trying to job you?"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22

After absorbing two records from the
mound. Mr.. Marquard will make his
next start after the National League
strike-out mark. All he has to do 10
TO select some balmy afternoon and
nineteen in 1884 and they have been fir
ing point blank at this mark ever
since.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
American Association

Milwaukee, 6: Cleveland, 5.
Milwaukee, Z; Cleveland, .
Kansas City. 3: Indianapolis, z
Columbus, s: st. Paul, 5.
Louisville, 3; Minneapolis, ].
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
Emmanuel Hard to Beat Ont Now For Sunday School Title LIVE SPOR
MINCE PIE
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.
By BUGS" BAER.

Rumored that imp Ollie Chill has alb
solutely no objections to the Washing
ton team going on a strike. And stay
ing there.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22

That curve at Fourteenth
and F is awfully dangerous.
but the whits Sox would
rather face IL than Walter
Johnson's.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22

Not to be outdone BY the Ptuye,S
Fraternity, Ping Bodie Uert out OF
strikes several times.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22

A judge at a baby show has a cinch
job compared to the work before the
committee of selecting a Davis cup team
to defend our tennis trophy. California
alone has about slA entries shooting par
tennis or batting 80. just as your angle
of vision is. Mclaughlin and Williams
have gathered in the experience, how
ever, and this will be enough to give
them first call unless a decided slump
arrives.
The Cubs recently won a game on one
hit and IL caused considerable chatter
But back In 1906 the White Sox used to
scatter one hit through a week and
make II land four out of six contests
One hit for them to a single game
meant a lopsided score. with the SoX
uredOmina ting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22
Answered.

Teacher-who can tell me how many
teeth a. human being has?
Bright Pupil-A mouthful, miss.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22

But, while we ll1t one parCi cup,
Who blanked the Pirates 20 rounds
And hung another record up?
We are glad for more than ore reason
that We happened TO be sojourning In
Pittsburgh last Saturday. Here and
there and elsewhere, humping into the
genial but irrepressible fan, We have
often drawn this query: What vas
the greatest single ball game you ever
saw
We have tried heretofore to figure an
answer, but there was always an ele-
ment of doubt. One game after an
other, all great battles fought down a
byway of thrills, would surge back into
memory. but no one ever stood out in
Whist the novelist might term bold re-
lief
The Answer.
But now we have the answer. That
twenty-one-inning carnival between
Giants and Pirates, where Rube Mar
guard triupphed over Babe Adams, has
no rival so far as We scribe's limited
memory stands
Here was a ball game of something
least forty were on hard plays. Yet
in the crucial spots not a play broke or
A mishap occurred. The strain must
have begun piling up after tie twelfth
round, and yet both pitchers and field
ers, in place of weakening. steadied
and became more brilliant.
And after the twenty-one rounds were
about in the old dime-novel didn't hurt
the finish that had Captain Doyle fir
ing home run deep into the ultimate
limits of the yard.
Marquard and Adams.
This game will be talked OF for gray
ages. here and there, by those who
saw 1t. But we doubt If any appreci-
ated in full the wonderful pitching that
Marquard and Adams furnished. To
maintain perfect control of practically
every pitched bah when there were
over 400 balls thrown by the two emil
nent moundsmen comes as. close TO
the miraculous as faltering human flesh
can come.
Can You Beat It?
The more one stuies ,Marquard's
portion of the battle the greater grows
the wonder. He had been weakened
by fever and by tonsilitis and hadn't
started a game in weeks. There was
every reason that he should tire out
rapidly after nine or ten rounds mad
been completed. Yet he was stronger
in the twenty-first than the first and
had more stun. on the ball
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22

In a fast seven-inning game on the
4 onument Grounds, the General Land
Dffice team, DEBATED the Cherrydale N.
-' team by a score of Is 10 IA. The base
INNING Of Lamych and the hitting or
Zaneln for Land office featured.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-07-22

-oouois was no match for the speedy
lToly Name outfit and the former were
wamped by figures of TO 9. But five
ITS were sent into the diamond by lro,
lis while Holy Name hit Seay ana
rates for a total of fifteen oingles-
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-12-17
Dressed Up.

| Roy Lytle, colored youth, WHIT
was born and raised here, buj
who for the past few months ha:
been working in Kansas City, il
Ianguishing in the Jail of Jasper
county, Mo-, all because he cove
ted some good clothes belonging
to p. Swinney, restaurant man
at Joplin. Roy coveted the cloth.
ing so strong that he just could
not keep his hands off of them.
He came to Baxter Springs, and
Marshal Horton kept a watch out
for him, being notified by Joplin
officers to do so.
Roy appeared at McAboy's
meat market the other night.
Simultaneous with his appear
ance, Marshal Horton and Night
Watch Ditty also appeared, Ditty
at the front door and Horton at
the back door. Horton walked
in and collared Roy, and put him
in the city Jail. The Joplin Off
GERS were notified and came after
him next day.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-12-17
After 35 Years.

Thirty.fve years ago Mrs. Mel.
lie HevG of Roonville, Mo, and
Mrs. Jas. Freshmen of this city,
became separated in Missouri, to
which state they moved from
Illinois. They are first cousins,
and had been raised together in
Ohio. When young women they
moved with their folks to Illinois.
About a year ago Mrs. Hews
learned that the Freshners lived
here, and when she came to Jop-
lin a few days ago to visit she
decided to look them up. The
meeting was a joyous one, of
course.
Mrs. Hews is accompanied here
by her daughter and grand
daughter.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-12-17
.LiVening Up a Little

1t has been reported that the
old Degree of Honor of Baxter
was dead, and would soon be
wiped off the face of the earth;
but not so, for on Thursday night
last a class of men and women,
fourteen in number, was initiated
into the order, and another large
class will be initiated next meet
ing. After initiation came the
election of the following officers:
Past Chief of Honor, Maggie
Kent; Chief of Honor, Emma
Skies; Lady of Honor, Mollie
Fagg; Chief of Ceremonies, Lib
bic English; Organlst, Leila Sim
mons; Recorder, Ida Simmousi
Fiuancier. Emma Gray; Receiver,
Maggie Kent; Usher, Norma
Reed Outside Watch. Floyd Reed; !;
Inside Watch, Albert Rardin;
Delegate to Grand Lodge, Mrs.
Emma Cook.
After lodge closed a delightful
lunch was served, such as the
ladies of this order know so we'll
how to serve.
Ida Simmons. Recorder.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-12-17
Don't Forget.

While your heart is bleeding
for the stricken Relgiaus, do not
forget the worthy poor at bone
Old clothes. something to eat, old
carpet or rugs to keep the cold
ont, all these things will come in
mighty handy to a lot of people
who have not the wherewithal to
buy. Look around you, and see
if there is not snne ane. you know
whom could benefit a whole lot,