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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
TrOuncing Given join.
son Gives Detroit
Confidence

WASHINGTON, Aug. lit may
be that the Tigers will not make a
clean sweep OF the Washington Sc
ries. but there isn't q shadow OF
doubt on that score in the Detroit
encampment here today. The l3-in-
ming victory Monday. and the maui
Ing passed to Walter Johnson yes
terday. has been sufficient tp put the
Jungaleers TO pitch that Is likely
to make them unbeatable this week.
There is danger OF overconfidence.
of course. but tightness OF the pen
nant race has at last convinced
them that It doesn't pay 70 overlook
any bets.
Either Coveleskie or Dubuc will
start today. and the one that doesn't
start will go In tomorrow. Both are
very effective against the Nationals,
as rule. and both have been given
good rests. The result OF the last
two games has had a very depress-
Ing effect on the Washington club.
The Nationals figured themselves in
a winning streak that wouldn't be
stopped for some time, and they had
no idea that the Tigers would jump
In and nose 'em out In the first
game and then make Johnson, their
one sure bet. look foolish In the
second. Gallia may be able to hold
the Tigers today. for he is a good
pitcher. but his team mates are be-
ginning to doubt 1t and the Tigers
are cure he won't.
Everybody today is seeking an ex-
PLANTATION of the sound trouncing
given Johnson yesterday. The gen.
eral impression seems to be that
big reason is that he Is too good
fellow for his own good. While II
Is probable that he wasn't right yes
terday, yet the players believe that
the chief reason for his aviation was
the bali that beaned Oscar Witt.
Johnson realizes his speed, and fears
very much the consequences of hit
ting a player In dangerous place.
He feared for a moment that he had
wound up Wits career. and was
thereafter unnerved, II is asserted.
At any rate, the Tigers made mer-
ry at his expense. After Witt had
Teen hit on the head by an inshoot,
and taken from the game. Bush
walked, Cobb forced Coveleskie. who
had run for the thirdsacker. Then
the two runners stepped ahead on
Words long fly, and Veach sin
gled, scoring DOME and Ty. Burns
drove q liner over Acosta that went
for a home run and the Tigers were
! given a four-run lead.
Steen, who was nominated by Jen-
nings for mound duty, had horri-
bic time the first inning. Moriarty
who had replaced Witt, let ground
er get through him. Foster was
forced by Milan, who then stole sec
end and scored on a single by
Shanks. Gandil then singled and
Acosta walked, filing the bases.
Williams was introduced. and drove
a line drive directly at veach. who
made the third putout and saved the
day.
Thereafter Steen was very effec-
tive, and was scored upon but once.
That was in the seventh, when Nc
Bride walked. and Kopp and Moeller
singled. filing the bases. Mcbride
counted on an infield out.
Detroit got to Johnson again In
the sixth. when both Stanage and
Steen singled. Bush's safe blow fill
ed the bases, and Cobb singled. scor-
ing Stanage and Steen. Crawford
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
1.-THE AVALANCHE"
SYNOPSIS OF ..,,. rs :
j. B. Harris Burland

"N0r sss, "a
JAMES TREvERToN. : man OF =.
who has been reduced to compare
tive poverty by the extravagance
OF his wife. lie has been forced to
let yernsy Hall. the home Of his
. family. and take up his residence
at the manor house on his estate;
He has retired into the country and
taken up farming.
ALICE TkEvERTON. his vile. is Ut
she can TO try her husband .
patience. She rouses his anger by
Insisting on going to dinner NJ
neighboring house. where
CAPT HAIG In staying. Treverton
forbids her to go, knowing that she
l. In love with Haig. who - de-
In spite OF her husbands threat
that he may one day turn on hsr
Alice has killed all Trevertons
affection for her. and he has fallen
in love with
sYBiL LowTHER, a wealthy young
girl, who. with her mother. has s:
never by SO much as . look be-
trayed the secret OF his heart
he sits up Till late on the night
his wife goes TO see Haig. Thsn ne
him, telling him tina, she has gone
away with the man sho loves.
Treverton at once guesses that
liaig lie her companion. thousn ne
fails 10 discover any satistac,ory
proof -Four days later. however
he receives a letter from his VIE
IL Is sent from a Paris hotel. where
he knows Hais Is Staying;
Two years afterward ire'sr.oh
IN happily married TO sym Low
Their. lie has divorced Alice. Inc
cas-. was undefended. From Veri-
Gus places evidence was accumulat-
cd that Haig had left England with
his wife" on the day Alice lsit
her husba nd Trcverton has never
heard of her or iIaig aimee.
Treverton has been married TO
Sybii for year when he receives q
Telegram from Haig, sent from a
neighboring villase- In II Hais
him at once. a terrible mistake
has been made" the wire adds.
Treverton .hurries on and sees
Haig.
II have just arrived In ENGLAND.
you divorced your wife and brought
me into the affair I'd like TO IN
form you that l said goodby TO
your wifi, on the day of my de-
parture from England. and that
have not set eyes on her from that
day 10 this"
Haig contends that the woman
he left England with was his wife.
whom he introduced TO Trevcrton.
lie insists upon the case being OPP
ton cannot bear the thought OF
causing Sybil this ordeal. but hais
r. adamant
When Treverton asks him what
became OF Alice he retorts that she
was murdered. and accuses Trevcr-
ton OF having killed her and forged
the letters she was presumed TO
have written.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
Tigers Expect to Make Clean
Sweep of Series at Capitol
SENSATIONAL feminine ten
! mis- comeback IL being pro

"a mis- comeback 10 being prom
Used for this summer. Interested
by the reports OF the great play
OF the Morse star. Miss Bjurstedt,
Mrs. T. c. Bundy, better known
to fame as May Sutton, has de-
cided TO return to the net game.
Recent tryouts indicate she Is az
good as ever. Mrs. Bundy Is pic
tured below.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
(COpyright. 1913, By the Associated
Newspapers. LinsitedD
CHAPTER tV-(Couyjnued)


1T doesn't matter" interrupted
Treverton coldly. II am quite aware
that Capt. Haig made love to my
wife. l have no doubt that he ar
ranged TO 90 of with her. even II
|. he did not actually do so.'
moi" said Haig savagely, moi"
"The letter she wrote me-" t4
II don't care what she wrote you.
I said goodbye to her-the day be-
fore left and did not intend to see
her again"
rs that true7" queried Trever.
ton. looking at Mrs. Haig.
'Yes--it is true"
when did you meet your hus-
band--down here?"
1.-The day | arrived"
''Wha, time?"
"About half-past eight"
Where"
AT the railway station"
You wrote TO him and asked him
to meet your"
Eyes"
Where did you meet him on the
following day? Where did he pick
you up In the motor?''
About a mile and half the
other side Of Compton verney-
near some woods"
The Holt Woods" interrupted
Capt. Haig.
"why did you meet him there?"
Treverton continued. III he intend.
ed motoring to Gawthorpe with you
why didn't he call for your"
Mrs. Haig smiled. II can see you
don't believe my story she said
sweetly.
II want the truth. II seems odd
that you should have met your hus-
band all these miles away from
Maitland. Surely he could have
called for you"
"Yes, II he had intended taking
me away with him. But. you see.
he tried to get OF without me. It's
no use your scowling at me. Dick.
You know you tried to give me the
slip. Something went wrong with
your car-Providence interviewed
and had time for a good chat With
you. o. yon dear, foolish fellow
I know how II hurts you to listen to
this. but Mr.. Treverton must know
the truth"
Treverton glanced from husband
10 wife, and then stared down at
the floor again. Either consciously
or nnconsciously. Mrs. Haig had con.
firIned the chaufeur's account
II was on my way to Fairview,' -
Mrs. Haig continued. II had intend.
cd to make scene. Fortunately
that was Unnecessary. Dear old
Dick gave in to my pleadings,
and"
What about your lugsase?"
For a few moments there was nj.
lence. Mrs. Haig looked at her hus.
band with a puzzled frown.
my mggage?" she Queried
thoushtfully. "what did I do with
my luggage I forget. o, yes. Of
course. remember now. only
had a small trunk with me. sent
Il on in advance"
"where?"
"Folkestone."
Then you intended to travel to
Folkestone next day"
Yes knew my husband was
crossing from there to the Cont
nent. II had failed-well. was
prepared for all emergencies
thought--T would night to win him
back--up to the end--plead with
him till the last
Her voice ALTERED. and there
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
Old SlOwball
King Near Death

American league fans will be sor-
ry to hear that Bill Reidy. the most
famous slow ball pitcher who ever
performed In the league, Is at
deaths door, victim OF tubercu-
losis. Reidy was with Connie Mack
at Milwaukee In 1900. and Mack
tried to bring him to Philadelphia
when the American league entered
the Quaker city in 1901, but the Mil.
waukee owners would not consent
to the transfer. He finished his
major league career in Washington
two lears yater. Reidy's health
failed rapidly. and he has been In
Colorado for three years.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
Watching the Scoreboard.

Half game. half q game. half i
game. onward! In the hymn Of Brooks:
lyn today. Just n wee bit more thqM
half a game separates those Devtlis1
Dodgers from first place. Y
The Red Sox didn't better theu1s
selves any BY splitting double bill
with the Browns. for both the Tigsr4
and White Cox won. Carrigan'o Ie46
isn't such that he can AFFORD to split
double headers especially with 10
Browns. s X Is
Old King Cole isn't 20 merry -
he's been painted today. The KIM
held the Indians to three hits ana
then watched Lutte Boone boot hle
game TO the four winds In the ninths
Adams. Of the Cubs. has = tat kiciS
along that line. too. The D0dqerq
rot four hits OF him and scored thr1o
runs. while the Cubs could squee9G
but one run out of nine blows.
The Pirates may not win q psn.
nant. but they're making things
nasty for the contendern. Yesterday
they throttled the Giants streAk Of
winning. Babe Adams let the New
Yorks down with ave hits.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
National League.

Yesterdays Games.
Innings. z 3 6 So X /,
New York. % o o o o o.
Pittsburgh 1 1004 - 10 0
Batterles--Marquard. Schauer and
Dooin: Adams and Gibson. Umpires-
KLEIN and Cockill.
Innings. 2 8 SIS X y
Brooklyn 20 o 0 2 o o o o. ]
Chicago :. % o o 0 0 0 0 o l. i
Batteries-Smith and McCarty; Ad-
ans. label and Archer. Umpires-
ODay and Ortiz.
philadelphia Cincinnati, rain.
Boston-St. Louis, rain.
Today's Games.
New York at Pittsburg.
Brooklyn at Chicago,
Boston at st. Louis 1.-TWO games).
Only games scheduled.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11

Yesterday Results.
Cleveland. 2: Kansas City, I.
Minneapolis. 6: Columbus. 4.
Indianapolis. 6; Milwaukee. 4.
st. Paul at Louisville. rain.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
What May Happen
in Standings Today

Record Still Stands.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11.-Poor
timing and bad start spoiled Ted
Meredith's attempt to lower the
world quarter-mile record of AZ sec
onds yesterday. His time was
As 3-b.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11

got his big blow in Immediately
thereafter, doubling to right and
Cleaning the sacks. Johnson retired
after this inning and was succeed
ed by Harper and Rice, who were
both effective.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
Federal League.

Yesterday Results.
Kansas City. 8: Brooklyn, 2.
Chicago. y: Newark. o.
Baltimore, 8; Pittsburgh. s.
81. Louis, 1: Buffalo. o az inningD
T0day's Games.
Pittsburgh at Baltimore.
Chicago at Newark.
Kansas City at Brooklyn.
st. Louis at Buffalo.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11

BIN James, Doutea Brave pateAess
In gseng g hls ho0e In Seattle -
rest his DlteAlng arm. If NH haA
Instead q uaakAng . haseHall trip -
Honolulu Ne wO0la have heen ~ $500
help - the Braves this sunaWer. IN
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
Tan for Witt In first,

Iotai oases-i!etrOit ~. WaSnlnx~s
ton Q. Sacrifice hits--Aoriarty. Hush.
base hits-Burns. Crawford. Hone:
run--Burns Earned runs--Detfoit ~
washingtpn. g., Double play-YounH
to Burns, Left on bases--Detroit q
Washington IL. First on error-3
Washington 1. Bases on balls-(1&
Johnson 2. on Steen ,, on Harper NJ
HIts--On Johnson. IL In inntn9ct
pitcher1By johnson wit. lorisstyj.
by Steen (Williams). Struck out-.4
BY Johnson 8, by Steen E. by Rice Il.
Umpires--Naiiin and Dineen. TfMA&~
2;os. :s
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
STANDINGS
American League.

Y~sterday's Games.
Innlngs 2s45 s7ss Il Z
Cleveland % 90 o o 0 o 0 o. o s 2
New York.0 l o 0 4 o o - y
Batteries - Jones, Harstad and
Egan: Fisher and Nunamaker. UNI
pires--Hildeb brand and OLoughlin.
Second game
Inninga "a 7ss 4 +
Cleveland % 0 o 0 0 1 0 o p 3 0
New York % 0 o o o o o.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. walker and
Egan: Cole and Alexander. Umpires-
OLoughlin and Hildebrand.
Innings l234 7ss u II Z
81. Louis. % . o o0S o
Boston 80 0 0 o 2 o o o o. 0
Batteries-Koob and Agnew; shore.
Mays and Cady. Umpires-Wallace
and Connolly.
Innings. I23i 5e7se Ri F.
Boston 81 0 0 5 10 - 0
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Cook, Sew
eroid and Leary: Ruth and Thomas.
Umpires--Connolly and Wallace
Innings. 2 3 4 CT X +
Chicago 30 l o 2 2 D . o 2-S1+ 0
Phiiadel. 20 o 2 o o o o 2 o. as 2
Batteries--Scott and schalk; Dress
Ter, Davis, Lapp and McAvoy. Um-
pHes-Chill and Evans.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11

We ess atm eaII Csusse wseh the
::ss :s =: s: 49, =: s''
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Anyhow. SsAnsy Hvsrs hsa solved
s 81 : - 80 q 80 80 = - ''' ''.'
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YEsTERDAY's HoMnRs.
.yno- H12evo nm Johmsnn s$0-

Barns. Tieerr. on johnson. SEN
ators.
wsikes. browns, on RstA. RED
willie, Indiana. sR Csle. Yankees.
Weleh. TeTrapens. on Allen, Pitt
wsleh. Tesrspsas, ON Allen. Pitt
Lsesex, pittseAs. OF johnson.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11

Yesterday Results.
Providence. 8; Richmond. I.
Toronto. AZ; Rochester, as.
No other games scheduled.
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American Association
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11

Todny's Cameo.
Detroit at Washington.
Chicago at Philadelphia.
Cleveland at New York.
ct. Louis at Boston.
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international League.

STANDINGS.
Evening star., 1915-02-21

All authorities claim that though the
combined losses up to date in men to-
tails a million, the gaps in the battle
lines are constantly filled up, SO that
it is safe to assume that the original
Evening star., 1915-02-21

ers, the Aiken Tigers and the Wan
derers.
The growth of polo may be gathered
from the fact that during last May
June, July, August and September
many hundreds of games We're played
at Philadelphia, Great Neck. Long Is
land; Locust valley, Hampstead, Kan
sas City, Meadow Brook. Seas girt,
Cedarhurst, Narrangansett Pier, Rum
son. Denver. Point Judith, Bryn Mawr.
Chicago. st. Louis Potomac Park,
Washington; a all army posts where
mounted troops are stationed and at
some others, and in a long list of cities
and towns up and down the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts, and from coast to
coast
At late meeting of the American
Polo Association resolution was
adopted raising the height standard of
polo ponies from fourteen hands and
two inches to fifteen hands or fifteen
hands one inch. a hand being four
inches. 1t was also agreed to substi-
tute for polo pony" the words polo
mount. The purpose of this is to let
into the game army officers and others
who keep horses for professional or
pleasure purposes. but who cannot af-
ford to keep horses especially for play
ing. polo as the height limitation has
hitherto required. At present the
height minimum for officers "chargerS'
or officers mounts in the army is ff-
teen hands two inches, but effort may
be made to reduce this minimum that
it may function with the new maximum
height of polo mounts. In last years
army appropriation bill was a provi-
sion, added to the bill as a rider
which prohibited the purchase by the
army of polo ponies horses of a
height of l4.2- The military authori-
ties, or those having to do with the
mounted branches of the service. re
gard polo with especial favor as a
pastime and exercise for officers of the
Evening star., 1915-02-21
GROWTH OF POLO INTEREST

THE growth of interest in polo in
the United States has been con-
siderable during very recent years and
the international matches have done
much to call public attention to the
game. to the skill, strategy and nerve
required in playing 1t well and to the
thrills, the hazards and the cost of the
sport. 1t has been called a million
aires game, but it is not that, though
1t presents certain features which will
prevent it becoming a generally popu-
lar sport, or at least a sport that can
be generally practiced 1t can be play
ed on any type of horse that can run,
a polo pony" a small. speedy and very
quick and handy horse, and properly
ought to have in it strong infusion of
thoroughbred blood.
If man is going in for the game in
earnest he needs a string of ponies"
The cost Of keeping horse must deter
most persons from taking an active
personal interest in the game. Good
riding has become rare in the United
States and Is becoming rarer. The
prospect is that polo will be played
more and more by men who can afford
the expense of keeping the proper type
of mount and who can ride we'll enough
to play the game, while as a spectacle
for onlookers it may become increas-
iuSly popular.
There seems to be a good deal of
humor in American polo players if one
Judge by the names they adopt for
their teams. Among the polo teams
playing last season and which will no
doubt WELD the mallet next spring and
summer were the Devon Freebooters,
the Great Neck Grasshoppers, the
Meadow Brook Magpes, the Point Ju-
dith Sand Pipers, the Philadelphia
Evening star., 1915-02-21

long before daylight, Robert Morris was
pounding upon the doors of his Phladel-
phia friends and acquaintances demand
ing money to send to Washington to pa Y
the suffering, half-Starved soldiers. The
fifty thousand dollars of specie was Sc
cured and had the effect OF another vic
tory. For the transportation of the
troops to surprise CORVALLIS at York
town Morris secured over q million
dollars. But in 1890 the register of the
Treasury made the first really official
estimate of the cost Of the revolutionary
war and put the figure at s135 5oO0,O 600
including foreign and domestic debts, in
fact all debts of which any authentic rec
ord could be found. The entire debt of
The United States was placed at Sol
124,464. which is but little more than
this war is costing Europe per day.
Beyond the figures OF men and money it
is impossible to draw comparisons be
tween these two epochs of history. for
there is no longer any parallel to oxen
drawn cannon. ptchfork bayonets por-
toned one to two soldiers. nor homemade
bullets made from family pewter mugs
and platters when there were no more
kingly leaden statues to melt up or cap
tured supplies to depend upon.
Because of its marvels of inventions
in warcraft of every kind this war
stands in class apart and is being
waged with devices and machines hth-
erto never introduced into warfare
Taken by its magnitude, it is beyond
the conception of the average mind
Every element that plays part in this
terrible struggle assumes proportions
too great for the brain to visualize
Upon the outbreak Of war the com
bined war fund provided by the five
nations was about $500, 100000.
Up to January ]. 1915, according to
the figures given by German paper.
after an exhaustive study of all of the
powers involved, $1,000, 900, 900 had been
spent, which means about s50,000.000
per day, or around s2.000,000 per hour.
and just twice the amount of the war
appropriations. Students of economic
conditions claim that the next six
months of war will be even more eX
pensive, without taking into consid
GRAFTON the value of men killed and
wounded, the destruction of property
and disturbance of commercial rela-
tons. Neither does it include the losses
of naval or air craft, deteriorat tion of
war material, etc.
All authorities claim that though the
combined losses up to date in men to-
tails a million, the gaps in the battle
lines are constantly filled up, SO that
it is safe to assume that the original
Evening star., 1915-02-21
THE STATE OF FRANKLIN

is involved and under the terms OF the
proposition the city OF spokane Woula
pass from under the jurisdiction OF
Washington to that of the new state
The proposal that there should be a
state called Lincoln is II reminder to
many students of American history
that In this country there was once
a state called Franklin. In the pages
of history one may read that iii 11s4
the state of North Carolina passed an
act conveying to the government OF
the United States the lands that now
constitute the state of Tennessee. The
reason for that act was because North
Carolina had grown weary of the bur
den imposed upon the treasury by her
western settlements and had become
irritated at the complaints of neglect
which the settlers in those parts seem
to have frequently made.
After the passage of the act OF ces-
sion by the legislature of North Caro-
lima the settlers in the western lands
of North Carolina. those lands which
are now eastern Tennessee, felt that
they had been cast adrift by their own
state. had not yet been taken up by
the national government and that thus
they were under no government. They
organized themselves into an independ-
ent commonwealth. which they called
the state of Franklin, in honor of that
most worthy American philosopher and
patriot, Benjamin Franklin.
The state of Franklin applied for ad
mission to the Union, or the feder-
alton. but before action on the matter
was taken by the national government
the state of North Carolina repealed
its act of cession. The state of Frank
lin had stormy and heroic career.
North Carolina asserted it's right of
sovereignty over the land, and in 1887
the last legislature of Franklin. held
it's session at Greenville: and also in
that year John Sewer the Governor
of Franklin was put under trial on the
charge of high treason, was rescued
by his fellow citizens, kept out of the
hands of his enemies and was at length
pardoned and remained the leader of
until his death