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Evening journal., 1915-01-01
MIKE DONLtN.

ST. LOUIS. Jan. Mike Donlin
wants TO be Federal Lacquer. With
his unconditional release from the
Giants in his pocket and his cane in
hand. Sir Mique applied TO Phil Ball
for a job in the outlaw league Mike
would like 70 play in St Louis but
the need Of the Terriers for outield-
ers is slight. If the courts give them
Marsans. Ball told Donlin that he
Evening journal., 1915-01-01

would take the application up with
Gilmore at once. I'm not through by
a long way" said Mike. "They have
mighty few southpaws In that league,
and III bet a suit Of clothes ! can
get into the .35 circle with the Feds.
! hit at that figure in the Giants eX-
hibition games last spring. cracking
good bad and Indifferent pitching as
1t came.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
|SCAND|NAV|A|S
 DIVIDED ON WAR Sweden Boiling, Anxious To Fight But Norway Is
 Keeping Quiet

Stockholm, October 2.-tSpecial Corre- spondence of the Associated Press.)-It has become so conventional to class the Scandinavian countries together, as If the only line of cleavage was an accidental geographical boundary, that the visitor is surprised to discover the fundamentally different points of view and totally dis similar attitudes of the two countries to- ward the war.
 Each country on account of its geo. graphical position and it's trade with both England and Germany has been in the delicate position of trying to continue its commerce without counting the disfavor Of both warning countries, and each couh- try has grown wealthy with the revenues from its increased exports Tor which 1t has beer able to obtain fabulous prices, but these similarities are matters of circum- stance. The striking difference is one in national spirit Sweden brstles with war talk. Knots of war-mad people gather in the hotels and on the street corners brandishtng Swedish, German and Russian papers. fOne gets the impression that it is their regular occupation.
 Norway Is different. There Is no rising hum of war talk in Norway. If not act ually tabooed. conversation about the war is at least in bad form. From Nor way the war seems to have receded to a remote distance, and whatever disturb ance she feels is expressed in lower key. People in this country are more interested in internal politics. They are discussing the development of Norway S water power, the question of national defense. the liberal and conservative par ties and the coming election.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
HOrseshOers Not Worried [, fhn ClAuolo I Dlot, n~al...


 Delegates to the twenty-fourth annual convention of the Master Horseshoers' National Protective association of Amer ica disagreed when asked, What is to become of the horseshoeing business witt. the steady increase of the motor car in dustry?"
 Many delegates agreed horses were les sening in numbers, but said the horse shoeing business is increasing.
 The motor car has helped rather than egates say. Harder roads have been necessary with the advent of the motor car and horses must be shod more often. The average life of good shoes now is from two to three weeks, whereas 10 years ago shoes would last from four to six weeks, according to William E. Murphy of Philadelphia, ex-president of the asso- citation. Although he says there are fewer horses being shod, he adds the average cost of shoeing is almost twice as much as it was 10 years ago.
 Rubber pads are worn by the majority of horses on their front hoofs which add $2 to the old price when iron shoes were used on all hoofs.
 c. J. McGinness of Brooklyn, national secretary of the organization, said the short haul for merchandise would always make horses necessary. for, in his opinion, motor trucks are not efficient except in long hau's.
 He believes the truck business will de- preciate steadily and says that 60 per cent of truck owners will not buy new trucks when their present ones wear out, but rather will return to the horse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
Mobile May Dispose. of Franchise
EASTERN FOOTBALL TEAMS DO NOT SHOW EXPECTEDFORM
Princeton Shows Best Form of Any Championship Mahan Responsible For Harvard's Victory
 Yale Still Weak

New York. October 17.--Leading east ern football teams came through the weekend games without defeat. although their showing was not in every case equal to expectations. Harvard, Yale. Princeton and Cornell. all won from op- ponents capable of testing to some ex- tent the strength of'the big varsity com binations Pennsylvania was not so for tunate. being held to tie by the Navy. which increased the confidence of the Middies as the Army fell before the onslaughts of Colgate.
 In Virginia, victor over Yale two weeks ago, Harvard faced her most formid- able opponent of the season to date. AL though unable to cross the southerners goal line, the Crimson registered three goals from the field, thanks to the clever kicking of Captain Mahan. who appar- enty has set for himself the task of filling Brickley's place. It is well. per haps. that Mahan has developed this ability since the Harvard eleven failed to show an attack either impressive or sustained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
Balfour Writes Book

London, October 2--(Special. )-The book of the moment in London is the collected Clifford lectures on "Theism and Humanism," delivered by Arthur James Balfour, Britain's first lord of the admiralty and formerly leader of the conservative party and prime min ister. MT. Balfour spoke the lectures and so he has had to write the book as, in effect. a new thing. It says much for the eminent statesmans capacity for work that he has been able to do this while attending to his duties as civil chief of the British navy. An in teresting fact Is that the publishers Holder and Stoughton. is one of the foremost houses specially identified with the publication of the literature of liberalism. Incidentally 1t is inter- esting to recall that Balfour once be- fore. on an historic occasion proved that the affairs of state, no matter how grave or how heavy. do not pre- clude his concern with other matters It is recorded of him that during the Boer war while he. was prime minister and while Britain's fortunes were at their lowest. he came from an all i'm : portapt cabinet meeting to highly frivolous picture exhibition. Moreover he took such an interest in the pie lures that one could not imagine that his head held anything more import ant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
SHOWING OF TWO ALABAMA TEAMS FEATURES RESULTS Both Auburn and Alabama Show Wonderful Machine. Vandy and Georgia
 Tech Strong

The wonderful showing of the two Ala bams teams was the feature of the re- Bults of Saturdays gridiron battles Throughout the south. The defeat of the Clemson Tigers at the hands of Auburn by two touchdowns when Clemson de- feate( Tennessee only the Saturday be- bore, and the continued progress of the University of Alabama eleven gives the Alabama gridiron fans another chance to see visions of the championship flying pver an Alabama campus.
 Coach Donahue had his warriors tuned to the highest pitch in the Clemson bat hle. The Auburn tactics of old featured the game. The powerful backs ployed through the line that held Tennessee scoreless and battled the Auburn standard Ao victory. Although Clemson was ex- pected to give Auburn hard fight, the score was not expected to go as high bs it did. The result of the game gave fhe Auburn followers a good reason to ibe jubiliant over the latest Donahue Victory.
 The overwhelming victory of Coach Kel- 1ey's charges at the university gave more Alabama fans joy than any other foot ball result. The Crimson eleven dis played a powerful line and a strong drive that has been absent from the university camp for several years The line is no more looked upon as the thin red line" but charging machine that opens holes Nor the plunging backs to carry the Crimson and white colors to victory. An sother feature of the victory was the re- Garkable bunting of Bully" VandeGraaff F'Bully' placed six placement kicks over hhe bars and failed to miss a single try et goal from touchdown. He promises to be the sensation of the southern gridiron in the bunting game.
 Other games ended as predicted. The continued showing of Florida indicated that they have a good team. The Gators sheld both Sewanee and Auburn tn the same score, ' to o. Georgia Vanderbilt and Tennessee rolled up a big score on weak teams, but the acid test remains ito be applied to each of the trio. Georgia T ech continued to show an abundance of good material and rolled up big score on Pennsylvania, who the week be- fore held the Mississippi A. and M. to 8 scoreless tie. None of the Mississippi teams have yet showed any form and must gather an abundance of material and knowledge before gaining any promi- hence on the gridiron this fall
 The results thus far show that only a Jew southern teams will make a danger ous bid for the championship. Alabama, Auburn. Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt look as the early season contenders. AL though several other teams have a chance, wopdesful practice must be made to out shine the progress of the above four thus far. It will be another hard fight, possi- lbly like the struggle of last year when Tennessee won out by a hair. The com ing Saturday will tell the tale It will eliminate some, but not the above four. They're in the fight for good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
E.N. MAYER. VR0INlA'S SsI; srs. VERSATILE AND POWERFUL BACK.

In Mayer, the University of Virginia has one of the best men, that ever per formed on the gridiron Recently the Vir- ginia fullback distinguished himself by proving a powerful factor in the defeat of Yale. Saturday he failed to do any material damage against Harvard, but gave good account of himself Last year Mayer gained the distinction of scoring more points than any other player in the United States except one man and also scoring every point for Virginia in her championship game against North Carolina. Mayors record for amassing points in 1914 was 121, representing 19 touchdowns and seven goals from tonch- downs. Although he is not doing the bunting for Virginia this season, he's a powerful man in the backfield His sue cessor in putting Is Thurman who thus far has outpunted every opponent he has been up against including both Yale and Harvard although Mahan outshined the Nirginian in drop-kicking Saturday,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
EVANSV WILLIE MAY GET
 MOBILE FRANCHISE
President Baugh Has Not Heard of Deal But Admits That Terms Are On With Knoxville-Doubts Chances of
 Evansville to Secure Rights

them some embarrassment during the nast season. and that the Knoxville fans had been dickering with the Mobile of r.cials m an effort to land the franchise but don't believe that the franchise has been disposed of as yet. If the officials should sell the franchise. they would first have to get the Southern league officials to sanction the deal As for the franchise going to Evansville even should the Mobile officials decide to sell out, it seems impossible to me on ac- count of beng such along distance away l hope that the league will remain intact, and l sincerely believe that the Mobile officials have no idea of disposing of their franchise
 Should the Gulls dispose of their fran chise, it would be the second town in the past two years to throw up the sponge" In 1914, Montgomery was forced to cede their franchise to Little Rock on account of poor attendance, and it appears though the Gulls will follow in their foot steps. Although it is admitted that the Mobile franchise was money proposi- ton, expenses were made with the aid of the other towns of the circuit Mobile is not a baseball town, and 1t would not be a surprise to the local fans to see a new team in the official standing when next season rolls around.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18

If rumors are to receive any credit, Mobile will not be a member of the Southern league next season. Although President Baugh would not confirm or deny the rumor from Evansville, Ind. that the Mobile franchise had been pur- chased, he hnted that either Knoxville, Tenn, or Evansville would secure the Gulls' playing rights.
 Although it was rumored in the middle of last season that on account of poor attendance the trulls would quit the Baugh circuit. they stuck the season out. transferring some of their games. To- ward the latter part of the season, Charley Schmidt. manager of the Gulls, denied the fact that they were playing their last year under the Mobile colors and stated Mobile would be a member of the Baugh circuit again in 1916
 T would not be surprised to hear that Mobile had sold it's franchise, although they have not made the fact known to the leagues office as yet stated MT Baugh when questioned on the rumor of the transfer. 'T know that the finan- cial condition of the Mobile club caused
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18

Against Harvard the southern team developed defense far stronger than its attack. and considering the game as a whole. it may be said that Virginia never seriously threatened the Crimson. The chief weakness of the Cambridge eleven lay in the same direction for. although Harvard frequently rushed the ball up the field for considerable gains. the team did not have the strength or strategical ability to pierce Vfrginia's line for a touchdown when the southerners stiff fened.
 Yale's victory over the Springfield Y. M. C. A. Training school was not as convincing as the Blue adherents de- sired. The Yale combination played err ratio football and failed to diagnose the scheme of the opponents attack. It is doubtful if Yale is as far advanced at this time as either Harvard or Prince ton.
 For all round teamwork Princeton gave the best exhibition, overwhelming La Fayette. Cornelrs showing against Bucknell was impressive but the strength of the -vanquished was not sufficient to give true line on the ability of MT. Sharpe's charges
 Colgate clearly outclassed the Army.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
.AGG|ES VICTORIOUS OVER KENTUCKY IN
 HARD FOUGHT GAME
Playing of Bobo and Jack
 son Features Victory of | Aggies = Both Teams
 Use Straight Football

Starkville. October 1a.-(Special II In one of the greatest games eve1| played on Hardy field, the Mississippi Aggies Saturday came off victors over thu gridiron warriors of Kentucky StateI the score being ls to 0. The game
 was on par with that played las
 saturday when the Aggies and
 Pennsylvania battled to scoreless tieN Kentucky went down today in defea battling ganlely from whistle tt1 whistle. The scoring came in the firsd and third quarters.
 In the first period A and M went| down the field on straight footbalid making first downs conclusively until they crossed the goal line. Patter'| failed on goal The remainder of thej quarter and the second quarter was| fought evenly. In the third quarterl Kentucky kicked to A and M Jones| receiving and returning 10 yards A .| and M. was held for downs and the] ball went over. Kentucky was held forj downs and ball went over again. A. and1 M. skirts Kentucky's end for first] down. A pass from Noble to Gaddy1 netted 15 yards. Again A. and NJ. was, able to register first down. Bobo takes ball around Kentuckys right end lY] yards for touchdown. Patten failed to1 kick goal. This ended the scoring as] the sultry weather had taken the pep4 out of both sides and both seemed con "A tented with occasional rushes.
 Kentucky played brilliant ball ati times but the stiff defense of the localss broke up their rushes at times whenI Kentucky became fa T, all halfback for A. and NJ. played a stel-i lar role as did Captain Raney andi Spurlock For Kentucky. Gradfelder at left half and Captain Schraeder at full, back played sensational ball.
 Kentucky worked her fake playsl well at the beginning of the game butt later she had better luck With straight football. The Aggies' success came inI her ability to gain .consecutively. TheJ fierce driving attack of Fullback Jack son of A. and M featured the first halfl of the game but he was severely int jured in the third quarter and was suc-| cessively relieved by Shaw.
 The lineup:
 Kentucky-kinne, right end; Thomp- son, right tackle; Simpson, Stubbs, right guard; Dimpsey, center; Britain, Shred, left guard; Sever left tackle Crutchers. Bird, left end; Rhodes, quar- terback; Hayden, right halfback; Crab fielder, left halfback; Shraeder full back.
 sissippi-Gaddy, Hamilton. right end; Raney, right tackle: Brunson, Blount right guard, McArthur. center Patten, Banks. left guard; Spurlock. left tackle; Scott, Shaw, left end Noble quarterback; Bobo, Schwill, right half back; Jones. Stewart. left halfback Jackson. Shaw, fullback.
 Summary: Touchdowns; Jack l. Bobo l. time of quarters. 15 and l2I minutes; referee. Carter, Virginia; um- pire, Kerr, Tennessee; field judge, Stroud, Louisiana. M
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
BASEBALL STARS PREPARING FOR
 EXTENSIVE TOUR Report Tuesday for North east and West-TOur
 Will End on Mo-
 vember. 23

Chicago, October 17.-Basebal stars of the American and National leagues be- gan arriving here today preparatory to departure on Tuesday night on tour of the northwest and west as the all-Ameri- can and all-National teams Frank Ban croft business manager of the Cincin- nati Reds, will be in charge of the play CTS.
 The teams will lineup as follows:
 Americans; Klepfer Ayres, James and Harper, pitchers. Henry and Cady, catch CTS; Hobitzell, first base: Mullen, second base; W. Schang. third base; Snanks, shortstop; Walker, Roth and Strunk, out fielders; Pipp. utility.
 Nationals: Coombs. Alexander, Pfeiffer and Vaughn, pitchers; Miller and Me Carty, catchers; Daubert, first base Evers, second base; Groh, third base; Fisher, shortstop; Carey, Killfer and Magee, outfielders.
 The tour will end November 23
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
The Returns From Vermont

The returns from Vermont are inter esting when they are political. But they are doubly interesting when they concern sugar and sirup.
 This year some 450.000 gallons of maple sirup has been produced in the Green Mountain state. It is comfort ing to hear the amount because it is stated in imposing figures. With all this sirup flowing majestically down out of the northeast. even the dwellers in cities ought to get enough to conceal their buckwheat cakes under translu- cent. fluid. golden velvet.
 Now. if someone would but create enough straight-out. unpatented old fashioned buck wheat--but that Is too much to ask. We shall have to rely upon the sirup to produce the delicious illusion of our younger days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
VILLA EFFECTS CAPTURE OF
 HIS DESERVING GENERAL $

Fl Paso, October 17-An official re- port from the mobilization camp of Gen. eral Villa at Casas Grandes received to- day tells of the desertion of three gen erals and 300 men and the fate meted out to them.
 Gen. Donate Lopez Pallan, chief of the Chao brigade, says the report Gen. Uriel Lopez and Colonel Angel Ocoea de- serted eight days ago, taking more than 300 men who killed small groups of loyal troops they encountered. Some of the deserting soldiers upon learning the plans of their leaders returned to us volun- tarily.
 General Villa ordered the forces of pursue the band. Three days ago Ochoa surprised the deserters on the Monte zuma ranch, in the heart of the noun tains, and made prisoners.
 Tn the skirmish S5 deserters were killed. We had no casualties. All the supplies taken by the deserters were captured. General Pallan escaped on foot with about 20 men, going toward Balleza. Among his effects was found a large Amount of silver currency. the bribe he accepted to cause the desertion This money, we learned, had been sent to him on three mules.
 When the deserters had been captured they had been reduced to eating mule meat.
 Most of the prisoners taken were offi- cers and of the Ochoa brigade.
 The prisoners are arriving today in the camp. Three thousand women and chil- dren. camp followers of the westward migrating Villa army arrived at Juarez today. being sent back from Casas Grandes
 It was later reported here that sev- eral hundred crossed the border to El Paso in search of food.
 The Carranza consulate today received the following message from Gustavo Es-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
Sisters Nurse on Opposing Sides

London. September 25.-(Specia1. )--T can't think how they managed It. but those devoted sisters. the Duchess of Croy and Mrs. James Hagen HSde, have been making flying visit to London. afraid of their lives. poor dears, that they would be recognized Now. how ever, as they are both back in their respective lands, Germany and France, it's no harm to let the cat out of the bag. They were the Misses Leishman Of Phtsburg. II. $, A The duchess mar ried the Duke of Croy when her father was the American ambassador to Ser lin and she Is now nursing wounded in the land of her adoption. while her sis- ter who. before her second marriage was Countess Gontant-Biron, is one or the leading women in the French Red Cross society and is a splendid work CT Sh. is frightflilly rich, for her second husband. James Hagen Hyde. is millionaire I don't know how many times over, and has a dream of a house outside Paris. The two sisters did en- joy themselves here They stayed at an hotel of which I won't tell you the name and they trotted about every where sightseeing and going b the thea tres
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
All Ahout Mouses

Youth Arthur. the pride of the fam fly. had been attending school all Of six weeks, and his devoted parent thought it was high time he should find out ho wthings were running. So he asked one afternoon:
 And what did my little son learn about this morning?"
 "Oh. mouse. Miss Wilcox told us al about mouses."
 That's the boy. Now, how do you spell mouse?''
 It was then that Arthur gave prom ise of being an artful dodger. He paused meditatively for a moment then said.
 Father. I guess I was wrong. 1t wasn't mouse teacher was telling us about It was a rat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
LEW DOCKSTADER AND GREAT BILL AT LYRIC
Election Returns Will Be Feature Tonight-No
 Matinee Today

One of the best bills of the season with that world famous minstrel. Lew Dock stader, the big headliner. will open at the Lyric tonight.
 owing to the inability of Lew Dock sta der and other acts on the bill to ar rive in time from New Orleans. where they have been playing at the Orpheum theatre. there will be no matinee at the Lyric today The coupons for to- days matinee will be good for Tuesday, s matinee.
 The management gives assurance that the new bill is one of the best of the sea son, and record crowds are expected As special feature tonight election re- turns of the city commission race will be announced from the stage at the Lyric Adv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
Of Course

From Judge
 Mamma was taking daughter to task.
 'I don't like the way you and Jack hang over the front gate every even ing" she remonstrated
 Well. as to that. theres,a great deal to be said on both sides replied tho daughter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
Social Sensation

From the WashlngtOn Star.
 Society doesn't concern you much here in Crimson Gulch," said the ob- servant visitor. i-
 What do you mean by society?" in- quired Broncho Bob.
 You haven't any tuft hunters around here."f
 Yes. we have A bunch of lnjuns got out their scalpin' knives an went on the warpath only last week.