Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20
now almost deserted.
SPORTING NEWS

Lincoln ..................54 SO 500
sioux city ..............5 SO .4S6
Omaha so .464
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d. Joseph $500. ..''''Ss % -5b4
Morgan williams of Victor, Colo.
has been matched to fight Jim Flynn
at Victor Labor Day, the bout to be
Of fifteen rounds.
What was said to be a new worlds
baseball throwing record for a girl
was made at Tacoma, Wash, by Miss
Ruth McCabe when she threw a ball
2O9 feet 5 inches.
Ten-cent BASEBALL will be inaugural
ed at the Federal League park at Bal
timore. Admission to the pavilion
hereafter will be % cents and to the
grandstand 30 cents.
Warren N. Carter, city trustee of
South Pasadena, Cal, confirmed a re-
port that he was interested in a deal
to acquire ownership of the Cincin-
natl National League Baseball Club.
The Wichita Western League team
headed by Ham" Patterson, the Pu
eblo boy, will play a picked team
from the Semi-Pro League at Pueblo
Colo, Aug. 30. The game will be
staged on the Minnequa park dia
pond.
e. J. Holland Of Springfield, Mo-,
won the state championship shoot
here in st. Louis under the auspices
of the Missouri Athletic Association.
He broke 100 straight targets in the
afternoon event and a similar num-
Der in the morning. Holland is an
amateur.
In his first appearance as a pro
fessional, Jim Mcmahon Of Leadville
winner of the amateur heavyweight
championship at d. A. C. tournament
in Denver last January, was knocked
out in the fourth round of a scheduled
twenty-round bout at Leadville, Colo.
by Young Hector of Denver.
GENERAL
Cancellation by representatives o.
the allies of contracts aggregatinl
nearly 100000 bushels of wheai
bought for September shipment to Eu
rope was disappointing to the grair
trade in Chicago.
Private advices from London init
mate that the recent shipment o
$40, 900, 900 in gold to this country via
Halifax is soon to be supplemented
by heavy imports direct from Soutf
Africa and Australia.
Designation of the Sunday proceed
ing Labor Day each year as Thrift
Day was asked Of President Wilson
and governors of states in resolution
passed at the second days session Of
the first International Congress fol
Thrift at the Panama-Pacific exposi
tion at San Francisco.
Resolutions urging the warning fac
tions of Europe to conclude an honor
able and lasting peace and praisinl
the course of President Wilson II
handling foreign complications were
adopted at Los Angeles at the sixty
first annual convention of the Inter
national Typographical Union.
Opium valued at $4,000 was in tn,
possession of the California State
Board of Pharmacy as the result of 3
raid in San Francisco's Chinatown by
officers of the board.
Fire, presumably Of incendiary or
igin, destroyed the lumber in yards oil
two companies at Portola, Plumal
county, Cal, at a loss estimated al
between $25O,OOO and s2,OOO.OOO.
President Wilson helped to rescue
three Automobiles whose machine
had overturned onto them about three
miles from his summer home at Cor.
nish, N. H.
The body Of Mrs. John d. Rookie
Teller vas buried in Lakeview GENE
terry at Cleveland, Ohio. The body
arrived from Sleepy Hollow, nea
Tarrytown, N. Y, where it had been
in the John d. Archbold vault since
Mrs. Rockefeller's death March 70.
The date of Cen. George w. Goe
that's resignation as governor Of the
Panama Canal zone has been desig
mated as Nov. 1 In his formal resigna
ton, sent to Washington, according &c
an announcement made by him upon
his arrival in New York from Girls
tobaL
Carrying S62 marines, the United
States cruiser Tennessee sailed from
the Philadelphia navy yard for Haiti.
Col. L. w. r. Waller and his staff
We're also on board. Col. Waller will
assume command Of all the United
States marines in Haiti. The marines
that left here today viii reinforce
those now IN Haiti under command Of
Rear Admiral Caperton. The Tenne
see carries enough supplies for a
three months campaign.
Charles Heber Clark, who wrote an.
der the name Of Max Adelar, died Al
Eaglesmere. Pa.