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PRESIDENT WILSON TO TOSS
OUT FIRST BALL OF SEASON
Nationals and New York in Opener Here
Today-Morgan May Be the Only
Regular Out of Lineup.

have eliminated the Athletics from hav-
ing a look-in, on the theory that a team
which loses its two best hitters and its
only veteran pitchers is weakened to
such an extent that it cannot possibly
be given credit for having a chance.
Boston is the logical favorite in the
race. The Red Sox were the runners
up in the last campaign. and because
Of the fact that the team is every bit
as strong as it was then 1t is picked to
have the best chance to win the nag.
But there will be other contenders.
The acquisition Of Eddie Collins by
the White Sox is figured to mean that
this team will be prominent. with q
good chance to upset calculations and
finish at the top Detroit, too, Is sure
great nucleus for winner, and II Jen-
nings has been fortunate enough to
pick up good player or two he may
finish at the top.
fact. 1t is not going to be easy for
any team to gain and hold the lead
this year. There is sure to be strenu-
GUS opposition all along the line.
st. Louis and Cleveland are in better
fettle this year than they were last
and will be harder to beat. This Is
particularly true of Cleveland, which
team has made some beneficial changes
in Its lineup and promises to have
better-spirtted aggregation in the
coming campaign.
So far as the Browns are concerned,
they may not be high in the race, but
Hickey has strong pitching stan.
and it will always be a hard team to
beat.
While it was expected that Ray Nor
gan would be able to get back into
the line much sooner than Chic Gandil,
1t Is likely that just the opposite will
take place. Morgan has not mended
&C NJ
hoped. and he is not apt to break into
the game today, while Gandirs arm
has improved SO much under the cleo
trical treatment that he is confident he
will be able to play. II Morgan can
not break into the lineup Pick will
fill his shoes
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ers who will be able to make good
now that the season is under way is
| not apt to be a bit greater this year
of the teams will start their cam
paigns with the youngsters in their
positions. but how long they will re-
main there remains to be seen.
R ho for pnn ,i bs is apls
to hold his own. and. consequently. he
| will continue to carry the veteran
| Mullen all season in the event that
| Pipp should fall down.
! his trouble at second base. McLarry,
| the recruit obtained from Louisville.
| is making good with the bat. but he
| is an abominable fielder. and Bresna-
| han is thinking seriously of replacing
| him with Art Phelan. though he pro-
poses to give McLarry chance in sew
| eral of the championship games to get
line on him.
a ball players worth. Sometime they
show a deceptive flash at the outset
and then finally drop of. so that 1t is
| only safe to say that a recruit has
made good after he has played for
couple of years or so. ....
One of the surprises in the National
League is apt to be the Cardinals. This
team was picked to finish far down In
the race because 1t lost three Of its
most valuable players as result of
the Fed raids. yet it has shown SO well
to date that there is hope OF the team
again being prominent in the coming
race. Miller Huggins has been able to
patch up the holes the Feds made in
his lineup to a great extent. He has
been particularly fortunate in obtain
ing Tommy Long from the Nationals,
for Long has proved himself a most
timely hitter and had much to do
with the victories the Cardinals scored
over the Browns in the spring series.
There are those who have their
doubts about McGraw's team being a
factor in this years race, and yet when
one dissects the Giants 1t Is probably
found that the team is just about as
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TIGERS UNDER HANDICAP.
Start Season With First Baseman
Burns and Moriarty Out.

DETROIT, Mich. April 14.-Because
Of the absence Of First Baseman Burns,
who Is slowly recovering from the ef-
fects OF an operation for appendicitis,
and Third Baseman Capt. Moriarty,
who is laid up with an injured foot,
Detroit was forced to start the Amer
lean League season with two substi-
tutes in the infield. These substitutes
Kavanaugh and Witt. respectively-are
old members of the team, however.
With Larry Lajoie no longer mem
Der of the team. Cleveland also pre-
sented a new infleld.
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Keep an Eye on The Stars Flag.
Washington base ball fans may

save unnecessary trips to the
American League Park this sea
son by keeping an eye On The
Stars base ball flag. As In years
past. q nag will be raised to the
top Of the pole on The star build
ing every morning the Nationals
are scheduled to play at home.
1t will ny throughout the day
unless the game L. called on.
A new nag. white with n large
red ball In the center. has been
obtained this season. Manager
Grifnth will notify TIE star the
moment n game IL called on. and
without delay the Tag will be
lowered.
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BY ]. ED GRILLO.

By J. ED GR1LLO.
New managers cities league will make their
league today In the American League William Donovan will
make his debut of the Yankees and at Chicago Car
Rowland will take charge
National League Roger Bresnaan will lead the Cubs and
Pat Moran the Philes
Just what of interest the will attract this
be believed that the influence OF the European
other factors initiating against the interest Of the sport
have their force and base ball confident that the
game again will be patronzed by the public.
much interest from standing
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Braves Shut Out Brown.

BOSTON. April 1.-THE Braves OBJ
tanned only four hits of the delivery Of
Cram yesterday. but won from Brown
University. s to 0. The college pitchers
wildness was a factor in most of Boston's
scoring. The score:
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Manager Bresnahan of the Cubs says
that he may keep a string tied to
Raymond Murphy of New York, who is
with the team in Florida. Murphy is
an outfelder. He played several years
with the Fordham Lyceum team in the
Bronx.
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II advance predictions run true. these
leaders Will be lighting for the first
place in the American League standing
this senson. Rowlands is conceded a
chance to be up "there" because of the
addition of Eddie Collins to his battle
front and a wealth Of slab material.
They all like Boston this year. but
there is enough strength distributed
in the other three to make a fight of 1t.
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WHERE THE LIDS POP
OFF THIS AFTERNOON

UtF IdlS ar xEfLNUON
Every field has been properly
mAnicured, new uniforms un-
packed and ready to be donned.
bands especially drilled for
opening day tunes and city on
cials' arms exercised the first
time in perhaps a year for the
tossing out Of the frst ball for
the kick-oR bouts In the major
leagues this afternoon. The great
national game ts again with us
for \ six-and-a-half-m cam
paign, and from now on until
the brown days of late October
the daily cry will be. "WhAt's
the scOres" Here is the Official
layout for today;
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
New York at Washington
Boston at Philadelphia
Chicago at st. Louis
Cleveland at Detroit
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Philadelphia at Boston
Brooklyn at New York
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati
st. Louis at Chicago
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SOUTHERN LEAGUE.

Memphis. 9: Little Rock. !.
Atlanta. 4; Mobile. ].
New Orleans, :: Birmingham, I.
Nashville, y: Chattanooga, 5.
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sOuTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE

Savannah, 3; Charleston. ..
Macon. ): Jacksonville. 4.
Augusta. IL; Columbus, I.
Albany. L.: Columbus. g.
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MINOR LEAGUE GAMES.
FEDERAL LEAGUE.

Buffalo. 5: Brooklyn. 4.
Newark. 3; Baltimore. /.
Chicago. u; Pittsburgh. ;.
st. Louis, B; Kansas City 0.
TEXAS LEAGUE.
San Antonio. ): Houston. 3.
Waco, 8. Dallas. 2.
Fort Worth. 4; Shreveport. |.
Galveston, 8; Beaumont. 8.
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The race this year Is apt to furnish
a lot of surprises. Most of the critics
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West Virginia University is to meet
who did such remarkable work against
the Maryland Aggies Monday, will
pitch against the Sailors, notwithstand-
ing that he has had but one days rest
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the Auditors handed defeat to the
Trainmen in the Railroad ~ Basket
Ball League by a score of 81 to 19.
The contest was one of the closest and
hardest played of the year. The vic
tory gave Auditors second place in the
circuit
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-29

taineG here before the war, but the
voyage offered little OF interest besides
steep banks and here and there spirit
lsss scenery.
Great imperial docks, arsenals and
navy yards are located at Kiel, as are
also adn'iralty hedqurters and the
Imperial Naval academy. Foreigners
We're not admitted to the docks and
yards. Many thousands of visitors
regularly attended Keller Woche (Ki,l
Week., the great German regatta held
each year during the latter part of
Jane. This regatta was an event Of
first Importance in the world of in
ternational sport, and yachts from
all nations interested in water sports
were annually entered in it's famous
races. The yacht Hohenzollern, hous
ing the emperor and the imperial fam
lily, builded each year the central point
of the gay, rich, cosmopolitan throng
of sportsmen.
"Kiel is one of the Oldest towns in
Holstein. The older parts of the
town are badly built, having twisting.
narrow, indifferently paved streets and
being thanked by gnarled, time-tortur
ed buildings. The new town, how
ever, is filled with handsome structures
and is well-planned. The city has
grown In every way, industrially, com
mercially, socially, artistically, since
becoming naval headquarters for the
empire, and of the greatest sport event
upon the German sport calendar"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-29
RAILROAD ISSUES
FIGURES FOR JULY
IN A STATEMENT
Especial to Times-Recorder.)


WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 2S.-Tho
results of operation of Southern Rail-
way company for the months Of July,
1915 and 1914, exclusive of interest.
rentals and other income charges ),
were announced by Comptroller A. H.
Plant today, as follows:
Gross revenue, July, 1915, $5,211.-
635; July, 1914, $5,7O5,119; decrease
$493, 4S4, or $3.50.
Operating expenses, taxes and IN
collectible railway revenue, July, 1915,
1898, 1888; July, 1914, $4,595,647; de-
crease, $641,659, or 141596.
Operating income, July, 1915, ST.
317,647; July, 1914, $1,169,472; in
crease, $14S,175, or 12.67@o.
In addition to the foregoing operat-
ing expenses the company spent dur
ing the month, for improvements to
it's roadway and structures, 70501.97,
as against 1921, 692,62 for July, 1914,
an increase of $17S,S0935.
Operating income as shown above
represents the amount remaining af-
ter the payment of only those ex'
penses incurred in the actual opera
ton of the railway and of taxes, and
takes no account of the charges foi
| hire of equipment, rental of leased
lines, terminals and other facilities
and interest On funded debt (bondsj
all of which are charged against
| operating income.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-29
WAR SWEEPS AWAY GOzY
TRIM AND INFIFFERNT CITY

WASHINGTON, D. c., August Is
"Nieuport-Bains was as sleepy and CO.
zy, as trim and as Indifferent to whae
went on in the world, as a seaside va
cation resort well might be-" begins a
war primer issued by the National &C.
ographic Society, today, which tells of
the modest little North Sea bath tina.
shell-fire has utterly swept away. COS
tend, up the coast to the north, strove
for the correct cosmopolitan air, the
high-tension vivacity proper for the
modern go-ahead summer resort, and
left to little Newport Bains, - miles
down the strand, the business of be-
ing a rest-cure and an abode of peace.
Fore nearly year now, shells have
been screaming through this still re-
treat.
| Newport, where the great battle
lines through France and Flanders
rest their TANKS upon the North Sea
sands, lies two miles southwest of the
bathing resort. Here is the terminus
for the railway from Dixmude, brisk
mornings walk distant. The veach
shelves out very slowly, and at low
tide the waters slip back for a great
stretch, while the prevalent west wind
drives the uncovered sands into dunes.
or whirls them into the little cottages
back from the shore. The User, that
most-contested of tiny streams, runs
just to the north of the resort, and its
waters provided excellent fishing for
the reflective summer guests who
passed by Ostend, to the south.
"Nieuport-B was quite modern
resort, its foundation going back only
to 1869. 1t possessed fine pier, ex.
tending from the mouth of the User
1900 yards out to sea, and from cafe
that stood nearby fine views could be
obtained of Dunkirk and Ostend, those
two towns that now might as we'll b :
in separate planets for all the com
munication that is possible between
them"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-29
A CHARTER FOR CHILDHOOD.
Ohio codifies Child Welfare Laws, but
No Other State Does.

If any one asks what the laws af-
fecting children are in New York state
no person in any position can without
considerable research answer the ques-
ton. according to statement made by
Homer Folks at the Eleventh Annual
Conference on Child Labor. The only
state in the Union where it could be
readily answered is Ohio, since Ohio is
the only state that has coditied its
child welfare laws.
A committee appointed last May at
the National Conference of Charities
and Corrections, with G. G. Carstens
of Boston at its head and Edward N.
Chopper of the National Child Labor
Committee as one of its most active
members, is now at work drafting
childrcn's charter that would show
how all laws relating to children
should be co-ordinated and that could
be adopted as a whole or in part ac-
cording to the needs of the individual
state.
The benefits of the children's charter
will not be confined to clearing up OF
the principles ON which the various or
CARNATIONS and committees which are
interested in the needs and rights OF
childhood should base their work. In
fact, the friends of the charter are in
clined to believe that its greatest value
may lie in the simple fact that it will
encourage cooperation. The drafting
of the charter, which will be In itself
a cooperative effort, will teach work
ers in the various fields to think Of
their work as a part of larger whole.
The relation, for instance, between
the school attendance officer, the fac
tory inspector, the Juvenile court work
er and the administrator of mothers
I pensions will become practical help
to each of them. For the child such
I cooperation all along the line should
mean that the care that is now availa-
BILE for the child who happens to come
under the eye of the official or social
worker who is fitted to meet his case
will be extended to a larger proportion
of those who need it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-29
WIFE BEATER IS
SHOT TO DEATH
BY TEXAS MOB

Skinner, Texas, Aug. 28.-John
Slovac, a farmer who had been ac-
cused of beating his wife, was taken
from Jail by party of masked men
here today, beaten severely with a wet
rope and then shot to death.
The lynchers evidently had a ke7
which unlocked the Jail. The door was
locked after Slovac had been removed
from it. No trace of the identity of the
lynchers has been found.
Slovac went home Monday and beat
his wife, his son and his fatber-in-law
Sinner officers were notified and after
slovac took him to iaiI
Slovac and his family came to Shin
er from Bohemia about year ago.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-29
TOO MUCH GOLDEN
SPOON AND NOT
ENOUGH CORN CAKE

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. 28.-Too much
golden spoon and peacocks' tongues
and not enough corn cake and plain
deal table, has caused the break be-
tween Huntington Wilson and his wife.
formerly Lucy Workman James of S.,
James, Mo-, according to intimate Chi
cago friends of this brilliant young
pair. Mr. Wilson was appointed an
assistant secretary of state by Theo
dore Roosevelt and served during the
Roosevelt and Taft administrations.
News that Mr.. Wilson has been il
Reno, New, for five months cultivating
the residence necessary to permit hin
to file suit for divorce from his beau
tiful wife has shocked that portion OF
Chicago society.
Mrs. Wilson is daughter Of Thomas
James, of st. James, Mo.
Mr.. Wilson, who was born in Chi
cago in 1875, had attained his diplo.
matte honors before arriving at his
Both birthday anniversary. Mrs. Wilson
him in 1905 while she was still
in her teens.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-29
Stronghold of The Kaiser
Is Graphically Described

idea which ripened thropghcenturies
Projects for connecting the Baltic and
North seas by a water route through
the northern peninsula which should
avoid the dangerous voyage around
Jutland were considered spasmodically
from 1900 on, but it remained to the
military ambitions of great empire
to bring about the realization of this
advantageous waterway for trade. ANY
number of bashful beginnings Of the
projection were made before the con.
struction of the present canal was
undertaken by the first German EN-
peror Kaiser Wilhelm I. laid the
foundation stone of the canal in 1887.
and the costly avenue was formally
declared open by the present emperor
in 1895. The original canal has been
extensively improved.
1.-THE canal crosses the peninsula
from Holtenau just beyond the north
ern suburbs of Kiel, to Brunsbuettel,
at the mouth of the Elbe, at sea leve'.
the locks at either end merely serv-
ing to neutralize the tides. 1t is 50
miles long, with depth of more than
80 feet and width sufficient to pass
the largest men-of-way. A steamer
takes between and hours to pass
through the canal, thus bringing the
advance German naval base at Heligo-
land within easy reach of the Kiel
headquarters. The whole way at night
is lighted by electricity. The first
cost of the Baltic Ship canal was $780,
100000. Other millions have been ex-
pended in its improvement. Regular
steamer excursion service was main
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-29
GERMAN MANUFACTURE
ARE WORKING FOR WINTER

GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. z7.-All
the textile factories along the Rhine
and also those around Prague, Buda-
pest and Vienna ARE said to be work
ing day and night, turning out winter
garments for the armies. Large or
ders have been placed with SWISS Ta.n
ufacturers of heating appliances for
the German army. A Berlin automo
bile manufacturer is said to have dis
covered system of curtain for motor
cars, which not only protects from the
rain, but also from the cold, and per-
mits ready change of color to accord
with the foliage of the country.
The winter campaign seems to be
looked forward to without much an
prehension in Germany as the meas
ures taken to economic food sun
plies have been so effective that no
lack of provisions is feared. In Aus
tria, however, according to reliable re
ports, the situation will be more Sc
rious as the same precautions were not
taken, and their application is not 50
easy, as in Germany.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-29

Photo by National Child Labor Committee.
p. M, READY TO GO ON THE NIGHT SHIFT.
different the next time, because the glass
manufacturers there will no longer fear
the competition of Pennsylvania.
We may not even have to wait until
the legislatures meet in 1917 to bring
these states into line" said Owen r.
Lovejoy, general secretary of the Ma
tional Child Labor Committee. IF the
federal child labor bill which will be
introduced into congress early in the
next session becomes law it will auto
matlcally establish sixteen year limit
for night work in the glass factories of
Maryland and West Virginia. The chill
dren now exposed to the serious
physical harm likely to come from go
ing out into the air from the overhead
ed glass factory and the cramped posi.
lions in which they work, combined
with the degrading and coarsening in
fuences which prevail on the night
force In the factory, will be protected
by Uncle Sam.
II you could see the boys, as | have
seen them, working in a Temperatures
which frequently rises to more than 100
degrees, their shoes cut with the broken
glass which covers the floor, holding
the mold for the red hot glass or WALK
ing endlessly back and forth carrying
bottles to the annealing oven, you
would realize that the only thing that
mattered was to get them out the
quickest and surest way-by means Of
a federal law"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-29

Built up around the deep pocket of
the Keller Foehrde, a narrow arm Of
the Baltic Sea that cuts its way back
into the province of Holstein, the old
city of Kiel lies well-shielded from all
hostile attack and centrally placed for
the use of the fleet, either upon the
open ocean or upon the inland sea,
begins bulletin just prepared by the
National Geographic Society. "This
ancient port city is headquarters foe
German sea strength, the first naval
station of the Empire, the point from
which the orders have been issued dj-
recting the unequal duel between the
ships of the Kaiser and the fleets Of
Britain.
"The great war-harbor of kiel is one
of the finest and most powerfully pro
tected harbors ir the world. The sea
arm, whose base is enclosed by the
port, has narrow entrance and Ions
and irregular surface. The entrance
and the strategic points along the bank
are heavily fortified. Fort FalkensteiE
and Fort Stosh guard the narrows
about 8 IL miles above the town.
Thanking the northern termination OF
the new Kiel suburbs, the Kaiser Will
helm Canal, a triumph of patience anc
engineering, cuts its way into the
sheltered bay. By means of this cana!
Kiel is in close communication with
the North Sea, and units of the Kais
ers navy can be transferred rapidly
and safely from the war theatre Of the
open ocean to that of the Baltic.
"The Kaiser Wilhelm canal or the
Baltic Ship canal is product of an
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-29

seriously flooded but the business part
was under from to 9 feet of watch,
and consequently the damage in this
part of the city to stocks of goods and
so forth were practically destroyed
THE citizens of Galveston now pro-
pose to erect a sea-wall or levee to
protect its shipping front and business
section, and in other ways to profit
from the lesson of the recent storm
and build greater and more endur-
ing city"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-29
BOYS ON THE MIGHT SHIFT.
Pennsylvania Now Prohibits 1t, but
Maryland and West Virginia Do Not

After Jan /, 1916 no more young
boys will be working ON the night shift
in the glass factories of the largest
glass manufacturing state in the coun-
try-Pennsylyania.
This means that West Virginia and
Maryland are now the only glass manu-
featuring states of any Importance
which permit children under sixteen to
work at night An attempt. was made
in West Virginia last winter to pro-
hibit night work to children under six
teen, but the bill did not pass. The
National Child Labor Committee,
which took an active part in the cam
paign for the West Virginia law, be-
ieves that the outcome will he quite
$40, IN " ,zr5N
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-29
MISS VAUGHN APPOINTED
To FEDERAL POSITION
Especial to Times-Recorder.)

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ca, Aug. U.s.
Miss Alice Vaughn, until a few days
ago, assistant superintendent of nurses
at the state hospital for the insane at
Milledgeville, has been appointed su-
perintendent of nurses at the govern
ment hospital for the insane at Wash
ington, D. C.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-29
Attention Brethren.

There will be a call meeting o.
Lodge, F. & A. NJ, No. 10.
Monday night at 1880. Work in third
degree. All brethren urged to at
tend. S. A. JENNINGS, W. M.