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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-16
CONTINENTALS QUIT
INDEPENDENT LEAGUE

Managers Of the teams OF the indie
pendent amateur chamionship Of New
Castle county at meeting last night
decided to uphold the protests OF East
End and Wildel against Continental.
Continental objected TO the finding
of the board and withdrew from the
race.
Tremont's protest againts certain
players was not upheld The teams
will continue to play without Conti-
mental and the previous games play
ed by this team will not be counted.
The revised standing follows
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-16
RUNS FOR THE WEEK

Runs scored by all teams Of three
leagues from Thursday. September 3,
TO Wednesday, September is. inclusive.
Only runs that figure in official aver
ages are included. Scores Of incom-
pleted games are not counted. but the
scores Of tie games Of five innings or
moreNare included in the table.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-16
PFACOcK's MAY BIRD SECOND

S. p Peacock's black mare May
Bird took second money in the 2,24
trot at Nazareth Fair yesterday. May
Bird lost out by narrow margin in
two heats to James Morris Sallie Pat
rick.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-16
NEW CASTLE VS.. NEWARK

Newark and New Castle. of the
Del-Mar League will play at New
Castle on Saturday afternoon. Each
team will present its usual lineup
and the usual high class ball isl ex-
pected.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-16
DELAWARE HORSES OUT OF MONEY

Billy Mcfarland, B. A. Lippincott'i
bay gelding, finished fourth in the three
minute mixed purse race at the West
Chester Fair yesterday. Tyson's Ed.
mund G finished fifth in the 2.3o trot.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-16
What Do You Want
10 Know About Sporf7

Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL.
A bets that four Of kind beat
a straight flush. Kindly settle this
dispute. B.
b wins. Straight flush beats four
of a kind.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNALS:
Kindly let me know in your sport
ing gossip Cd which has more speed,
an automobile or an aeroplane. az
Also let me know the record for an
hour run Of an automobile and that
of an aerOplane. H.
CD Aeroplane. co AerOplane, 1869
miles in one hour. NJ. Provost, In
Deperdussin monOplBne, September
20, 1918, In France. Automobiles
miles in one hour, HarrOun, In Mar
mon car, Los Angeles, April Is, 1910.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
% Kindly advise me If there was
better record accomplished than
Milan's, who had 81 stolen bases in
1912, since 1900 90 Also. is an 1T
tempted bunt which goes II feet IN the
air with men on first and second and
one out considered an inheld fly?
A. P.
mCobb stole So bases in 1911.
Milan stole SIS bases in 1912. however,
the best since 1900. GU Yes.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
Cd What is the correct name Of
Jess willard? CD His right age? (3)
Did Jim Jeffries ever travel with a
circus? r.
On That Is HIS right name, as far
/ as I know. (2) He says he was horn
on December %, 1887. (S) He was ON
the vaudeville stage, but ] don't re-
member Of his ever being with n
circus.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
Is the Hauser now playing short
stop for Chicago Federal the Arnold
Hauser who played shortstop for st.
Louis Nationals few years ago?
&C.
Yes.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
To decide a bet will you kindly adj
wise through your most valuable col
umn the ages of Hans Wagner and
Christy Mathewson. d.
MathewsOn was born In Factory
vile, Pa, August 10, 1850. Wagner
was born in Carnegie, Pa, February
"a, 1874.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
viii you please let me know whom
you consider the better second base
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-16

man, L. Magee Of the Brookfeds or
G. Cutshaw Of the Brooklyns?
EDDIE.
Lee Magee.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
% Here's one that sticks me:
Pitcher is taken out Of the box with
three men on bases and the score 2
to o in his favor. The first batter to
face the new pitcher triples. making
the score 3 to 2. Later the second
pitcher is taken out with the score
still 3 to 2. The team then bats out
more runs, winning game. Who is
credited with victory? ca A says
Matty once pitched nine games out
Of fifteen played. B says he pitched
nine out of fifteen days. c says both
and B are wrong. Who Is right?
(3) A says Tesreau has not pitched
more than two games in eight DAYS.
B says he has. Who is right? l..
0 Third pitcher. (2) ! haven't
got the time TO look this up. though
Matty pitched n bunch Of games in
the latter part of the 1905 season. (sl
- - NANhNs ? AAt Htto ltitNtu tuItt
games in six days.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
Please let me know If Jim Thorpe
Of the Giants was ever signed up with
Pittsburgh. JACK.
No, but Pittsburgh said they had
some sort OF a claim on him when
he signed with the Giants. Don't
recall what they based II on.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
Please rate Rucker. Matty. Coombs.
Stroud, Tesreau. Pfeffer, Dell. Smith,
Schauer, Schupp. Appleton. Perritt,
Douglass and Marquard.
CAPTAIN.
See Sunday Press for all pitching
records.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
A bets b that Phillies will beat st.
Louis the first game of a double
header. The first game was postponed
on account Of wet grounds and Phil
lies win second game. Who wins
bet7 GEORGE.
Draw bet II first game was moi
played bet Is of.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-16

the August sales II will remain here
for the month of September. after
which it viii be turned over to the
agency which shows the best record
for this month, and so on from month
TO month during the sales-year.
There is always keen competition
among the different sales-agencies
over this trophy, and for the best
sales record. and Manager E. L. III
rich is receiving well merited con-
gratulations over his last months
record.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-16

TODAY'S BASEBALL chances
National League.

New York at Pittsburgh. cloudy.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati, clear.
Brooklyn at Chicago. cloudy.
Boeston at st. Louis. two gemes
clear.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-16

The local branch of the Foss-
Hughes Company is Justly proud of
the record made during the month of
August, they having won the distinc-
ton Of having sold more cars in ex-
cess Of their allotment than any other
Pierce-Arrow agency in this terri
tory comprising all of the east as
far south as Washington with the ex-
ception of New York City and Boston.
The above picture shows the tro-
ply sent to Wilmington as a result Of
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-16
American League.

Chicago at New York. clear.
Detroit at Botson, clear.
Cleveland at Philadelphia, today's
game will be played tomorrow.
st. Louis at Washington, clear.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-16

man, L. Magee Of the Brookfeds or
G. Cutshaw Of the Brooklyns?
EDDIE.
Lee Magee.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-16

Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
Please rate Rucker. Mstty. Coombs.
Stroud. Tesreau. Pfeffer, Dell. Smith.
Schauer. Schupp. Appleton. Perritt.
Douglass and Maruuard.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-16

Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
viii you please let me know whom
you consider the better second base
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18
BOY HAD USED HIS BRAINS
Certainly Window Was Broken, But
Also 1t Had Been Repaired,
and What Then?

An iron hoop bounded through the
area ratings OF. a suburban house and
played havoc with the kitchen win
dow. The woman waited. anger in her
eyes. for the appearance of the hoops
owner. Presently he came.
Please, I've broken your window, %
he said. land here's father to mend
it,
And sure enough, he was followed
by stolid-looking workman, who at
once started to work, while the small
boy took his hoop and ran of.
'Thatn be four bits, ma'am," an
nounced the glazier when the window
was whole once more.
-Four bits!" gasped the woman
But your little boy broke 1.-THE little
fellow with the hoop, you know.
You're his father, aren't you"
The stolid man shook his head.
Don't know him from ADAM" he
said. He came around to my place
and told me his mother wanted her
winder fixed You're his mother,
aren't your"
And the woman shook her head
also.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18
SEEING LIFE U11h
rAN1JOHN HENRY
HSSh ~ GeOIqeVHobdrt
SfX\4WNt'l John Henry on the Street Car
John Henry on the Street Car

was the loud pedal ON a piano and he
started to play the Blue Danube
Waltzes."
That man was such a hard drinker
that he gave me the govt just from
standing on my feet
Then 1 jumped OF and swore on
and swore at and walked home.
If the man who invented the idea
of standing up between seats in
SqueeZer is alive he should have a
monument
My idea would be to catch him alive
and place a monument on him, and
have the conductor come around
every ten minutes for his fare.
I've been up and down and over
and across in the surface cars and
my experience is ornamented by
ripped trousers and discolored shins,
but my intellect blows out fuse every
time 1 try to dope out the real way
not to be an End-Seat Hog.
Last Monday 1 jumped at an early
bird open-face car and it seemed that
all the world was filed with joy and
good wishes.
I was smoking one of those Bad
Boy cigars. 1 call it Bad Boy
cigar because as soon as it goes out it
gets aWIul noisy
The car was empty with the excep-
| ton of couple of benches.
Two blocks farther on the car
stopped and a stout lady looked over
| the situation.
I think she must have been color
| blind, because she didn't see the
| empty seats and decided to cast her
lot with me.
a
John" I said to myself, don't be
a Hog-move overt"
And virtue triumphed.
1 moved over, and the stout lady
settled squashfu1ly into the end seat
Her displacement was about fifteen
cents worth of bench.
After we had gone about ten blocks
more every seat in the car in front
| and behind us was crowded, but no
body could get in our section because
the fat lady held them at bay like Ho-
ratius held the bridge in the brave
| days of old.
People would rush up to the car
| when it stopped, balance carelessly fore
| and aft until their eyes rested on the
vacant seats in our direction, and then
they would see the stout lady sitting
there, as gracefully as a concrete
| Sphinx.
| The people would look at the stout
lady with no hope in their eyes, and
then, with a sigh. they would retire
and wait for the next car.
No one was brave enough to clint
the mountain which grew up between
him and the promised land.
After a while began to get a tooth
| ache in my conscience.
John" said to myself in a hoarse
whisper, perhaps after all you were
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18

theT Hog because you moved over.
After the lady had climbed over you
she would have kept on to the other
end of the bench where now there is
nothing but a sullen space
began to insult myself
john exclaimed inwardly, what
do you know about the etiquette of the
street car? According to the newspa-
pers it is only a Man who can be a
Hog on the street cars. and since you
are the original cause of blockading
the port when you moved over, you
must be the Hogi"
Then I got so mad at myself that
refused to talk to myself any fur
Their.
The next day was riding downtown
on the end seat with my mind made
up to stay there and keep the harbor
open for commerce.
Never / said to myself, never
win anyone become a human MerTi-
mac to bottle up the seating capacity
of this particular bench while the
blood flows through these veins and
the flag of freedom waves above me-"
At the next corner very thin little
gentleman squeezed by me with a
look of reproach on his face, the like
of which I hope never to see again,
but was Charles ]. Glue and firm in
the end seat
Then a couple OF Italy's sunny sons
of the name of Microbeini and Germi-
eide crawled over me and kicked
their initials on my kneecap and then
sat down to enjoy a smoke OF domes-
tic rope, which fell across my nostri1s
and remained there in bitterness.
After / had been stepped on, sat
ON, clawed at and scowled at for
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18

will always find four feet, and their
owners, unless one of them happens to
have a wooden leg.
Under ordinary circumstances four
into two won't go, but the Squeezer
cars defy the laws of gravitation.
A Squeezer conductor can put TWEEN
ty-six into nine, and still have four
to carry.
For man with a small dining room
the Squeezer car has it's advantage.
but when a stout man rides in them
he finds himself supporting lot of
strangers he never met before.
One morning I jumped on one of
those SQueezers feeling just like a
two year old, full of health and hap
piness.
During the first seven blocks three
men, fresh from a distillery, grew up
in front of me and removed the
scenery.
One of them had to get out in a
hurry, so he kicked me on the shins
to show how sorry he was to leave
me.
One of the other two must have
been in the distillery a long time, be-
cause pretty soon he neglected to use
his memory and sat down in my lap.
When demonstrated with him, he
replied that this is a free country, and
If he wished to sit down I had no
business to stop him
Then bis friendg pulled us apart, and
i resumed the use of my lap.
During the next twenty blocks I
had Jne of the worst daylight night
mares / ever rode behind
The party who had been studying
the exhibits of the distflIery became
obsessed with the idea that my foot
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18

twenty minutes. began to discuss
myself to myself.
john / whispered. do you really
think that the general public appre-
ciates your effort to keep the Harbor
open?''
And then myself replied to myself
with sigh of exhaustion, Il don't
Think"
john I said to myself, no mat
ter what your motives may be the
other fellow will always believe you
are trying to get the best of it. II
you move over and give the end seat
to another gentleman. he will consider
it only as his right. If you don't move
over he will think you are a Hog for
keeping that which is as much yours
as it is his
/ began to grow confidential with
myself
Civilization is a fine idea. but HUI
man Nature can give it cards and
spades and then beat it OUT" / told
myself THE Human Hog was in
vented long before the openface street
car began to stop for him, and there
isn't anybody living who should stop
to throw stones at him. because
selfishness is like the measles-it
breaks out in unexpected places. All
a moment in the life of every man
when he gets near enough to it to be
called a Ham Sandwich"
Just then the Disinfecti brothers.
Microbeini and Germicide. walked
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18
CUTIcURA SHAVING
10 Up-to-Date Shaving for Sensitive
Skins. Trial Free.

Prepare razor. Dip brush in hot
water and rub 1t on CuticuFa Soap held
in palm OF hand. Then make lather
on face and rub in for a moment
with fingers. Make second lathering
and shave. Rub bit of Cuticura Oint-
ment over shaven parts (and on scalp
If any dandruff or itching) and wash
all on with Cuticura Soap and hot
water, shampooing same time. One
soap for all-shaving, shampooing,
bathing and toilet. It's velvet for sem
sitive skins. No Shiny mug. No germs.
No waste of time or money. Free
sample each, IL you wish. Address
postcard, "Cuticura, Dept. KY, Bos-
tom" Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18

nEY friend, Hep Hardy, presented
lVk me with a neat little gold ham
mer day before yesterday. Why, /
don't know.
But now that 1 have it I might as
well use it.
Every time / hop into one of those
roomy, comfortable street cars in a
city of the second, third or even
fourth class 1 Immediately contrast it
with the wood boxes we use in New
York, and 1 find myself growing red
In the face and biting my nails.
Those Squeezer cars that prowl the
streets of New York are surely the
breathless limit, aren't they?
The Squeezer car is the best genteel
imitation of a rough-house that has
ever been invented.
They are called Squeezers because
the conductor has to let the passen-
gers out with a can opener.
Brave and strong men climb into
a street car, and they are full of health
and life and vigor, but a few blocks
of the road they fall out backward and
inquire feebly for sanitarium.
To ride on a Broadway street car,
for instance, about eight o'clock of an
evening brings out all that is in a
man, including a lot of loud words he
didn't know he had.
The last census shows us that the
street cars in the city of New York
have more ways of producing nervous
prostration and palpitation of the
brain to the square inch than the
combined population of Amsterdam,
Rotterdam, Tinkerdam and Gotterdam-
merung.
To get in some of the street cars
about six o'clock is a problem, and to
get out again is an assassination.
One evening recently / rode from
Forty-second street to Fifty-ninth
street without once touching the floor
with my feet.
Some of the New York street cars
lead a double life, because they are
used all winter to act the part of re-
frigerators.
1t is a cold day when we cannot
find 1t colder in the street cars.
The germs in our street cars are ex-
tremely sociable and will follow a
stranger all the way home.
Often while riding In the New York
street cars have felt a germ rubbing
against my ankle like a kitten. Being
a gentleman, at least specifically, i
did not reach down and kick it away,
because the law says we must not be
disrespectful to dumb brutes.
Many of these street cars are built
on the same general plan as a can
of condensed milk
When you get out you cannot get in
and when you get in you cannot get
out, because you hate to disturb the
strange gentleman that is using your
knee to lean over
Between the seats there is a space
of two feet, but in that space yor
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18
Neiahborhood Diplomacy.

MY neighbor. in the most urbaDe
way, has notified me to keep my
chickens out of his garden"
And your
with the utmost courtesy I have
informed him that my chickens may
go where they please"
You must have been reading up
on diplomatic matters"
Yes, it all illustrates current prog
ress. A year ago. over. the same cpl
sode, we would have been scrappinsr
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18
He Understood,

my husband has deserted me and
I want warrant" announced the
large lady.
What reason did he give for desert
ing you?" asked the prosecutor.
Il don't want any lip from you.
want a warrant 1 don't know what
reason he had"
Il think l understand his reason"
said the official feebly, as he proceed
ed to draw up a warrant.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18
Safety First

The cook left today III have to
make the dinner myself"
Dent do it, dear. Let's go to res
taurant. It's cheaper than paying .
doctors bill"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18

Beautiful, clear white clothes delights
the laundress who uses Red Cross Ball
Blue. All grocers. Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18

Unless you have met a mother jus
after her baby cuts its first tooth, yoI
have never seen real excitement
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18

Irate Officer-Darn it, man! Duck
your head-don't you know you'd get
shot?
Fastidious Recruit-Ye-es, sir; but
this beastIy grass keeps tickling my
nose!-London Opinion.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18

An unmarried woman begins to have
hoping.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18

Some husbands look as IL their
wives had got them In exchange for
trading stamps
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18

And the man who has all his prop
erty in his wffe's name can't even
call his soul his own.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18
INTERNATIONAL.
SUNDNSQlOOL
LESSON
(By o. E. SELLERS. Acting Director of
the Sunday School Course of the. Moody
Bible Institute-)
LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER IL
ELlJAH's FLIGHT AND RETURN.

LESSON TEXT Kings 1s:s-1s CRea
entire chapter).
GOLDEN TExT-Be still and know this
I am God Ps- 46:10.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18

important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle Of
CASTORIA, safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that Il
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-05-19
Otto FlciSchmann Dead.
An Army is Needed.
The State

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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-05-19
WORLD SEARCH FOR sTRIBLING
Salvation Army Comes to Aid in
Quest for Lost Man.
(Atlanta Constitution, May 14.)

kRlluIld May M
At the request of Mrs. George T.
Stribling, Of TurnerVille, Haber-
sham county, Georgia, worldwide
search is being made for her son, II.
Eugene Stribling, through the At
lanta headquarters Of the Salvation
Army. Young Stribling strangely
disappeared from the Atlanta Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons a
year or more ago, and all efforts so
far to locate him have failed.
Traces of him have been gather
ed from time to time in Texas, Colo
rado and Oregon, but during the
past few months there has been no
word received whatever, although
the Salvation Army here has sent
out word to every army post in the
world to assist in the search The
only assistance his mother could give
Brigadier Crawford when the search
was first instituted was the informa-
tion that when boy her son had
often declared he expected some day
to visit the Alaskan gold fields in
search of adventure and fortune.
An important department of the
Salvation Army's work is that Of
tracing people who are reported
missing, and through this depart
ment, which is regularly organized,
many people have been located.
Another pathetic instance is told
of Geo. Y. Wilbey, formerly Of At
lanta, who left here to make his
home in Parell, Mexico. His sister,
who is now in a dying condition and
who knew something Of the efficient
work OF the Salvation Army in this
direction, requested that search be
made fol her brother Inquiry at
Parell showed that he had left there.
but it was not known where he
moved. Fear is expressed that he
may have been killed in the Mexican
revolution or by bandits It is to
determine whether this was his fate
or whether he returned to the
States" that the various Salvation
Army posts the country over are
working.
If the young man is alive, the
probabilities are that trace of him
will be found in the near future
through the efficient work Of this or
ganization.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-05-19
FINE AUTOMOBILE BURNED.
John McGill's Machine Caught Fire
While Being Worked On.
(AnderSon Mail, l2th.)

John A. McGill suffered the loss
Of fine Firestone automobile, val
ued at $1,000, early this morning
when his garage was burned and
the machine totally destroyed.
At o'clock call was sent into
the fire department and they were
asked to come to the home Of John
A. McGill which is two miles west
of the city. OF course the fire de-
partment did not respond to this call.
For a while it was feared that the
home and all of the outbuildings
would be burned, but the fire was
soon gotten under control.
Mr.. McGill was doing some work
on his car and had it in the door of
an Clubhouse used as garage. He
attempted to crank the machine and
when he did so the car back-frcd
and in a second it was covered by
the rapidly growing flames.
The machine was a Firestone car
5-passenger, and cost $4,000 when
new. Mr.. McGill had 1900 insur-
ance on the machine.