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PEL|CANS' DRIVE
AND VOLS SLUMP
NARROWS BREACH
Triple Play Unassisted by
Cotton Knaupp Is Fea-
ture Of Games
BARONS STILL HAVE
CHANCE TO ADVANCE
Crackers Expected Squirt Fails to Ma
terialize-Barons, Travellers and
Chicks Have Chance to Gust
Crackers and Lookouts

Atlanta, August 12.-Nash-
ville's lead in the Southern as
ISOLATION race, so pronounced
a week ago that experts were
predicting the pennant safely
in the hands of the Volunteers,
has been cut down perceptibly
by New Orleans in the past
four days. In fact the drive of
the New Orleans team, which
took three games from Nash
vile and one from Chatta-
nooga, has proved the high
spot Of the recent struggle,
making the contest once again
between Nashville and New Or
leans.
Whether New Orleans, even with
Outfielder Allison and Infielder STAINS
bury recovered from recent injuries
and back in the lineup, can stand the
pace Nashville may set when the Vol
unteers return to home soil shortly, Is
a matter of speculation.
~ nr1a
was featured by an unassisted triple
play credited to Second Baseman Harry
Knaupp, putting the Pelican fielder into
that rare class of which there are said
to be only 13 others ever executing this
play
With almost month left to 60 it is
apparent that league watchers will wit
ness a real two-team struggle for the
leadership.
Recent predictions that Atlanta was due
to challenge New Orleans position in
second place seem to have failed to ma
terialize The Crackers, after a brief
squirt, which gave them a fair hold on
third place have resumed the gait which
has given them about 500 per cent
standing during the season. In the last
five days Atlanta has won three and lost
two games while Chattanooga, the closest
contender has lost two out of three.
Little Rock, which surprised experts
recently with a series of startling vic
tories, has won three and two. Memphis,
Nashville and Birmingham all have man.
aged to get only two out of five. Mobile,
trailing the league. has won one and
lost three games
Forecasts taken out that six Of the
clubs were ready for a fight with New
Orleans for the Pelican's scalp in second
place seem to have been upset by New
Orleans squirt. But Memphis, Birming-
ham and Little Rock still are in position
to dispute the two lowest places in the
first division with Atlanta and Chatta-
nooga before the season closes.
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GRAND AMERICAN
HANDICAP HIGH IN
SPORTING EVENTS
More Than 1000 Trapsh0Ot-
ers Will Participate in
Events-Big Crowd
to Attend
BY PETER p. CARNEY

Baseball has its worlds SERIES" tennis
it's Davis cup competition, and golf its
international matches, but not one OF
these titular contests is to be compared
with the blue ribbon event of the trap
shooting season-the Grand American
handicap.
We are aware Of the broadness of this
assertion and fully realize that there will
be many doubling Thomases, but we can
prove our assertion to any and every
one who cares to journey to Sportsman's
park, in st. Louis, Mo-, during the week
beginning Monday August 81, for on that
day the Grand American handicap gets
going and continues with undated en-
thusiasm for five days. Any sporting
event that will take hundreds of men
away from their business for week or
more, and take several hundred women
away from their homes for the same Pc
Rod of time, is a real sporting event.
That is just what the Grand American
handicap is.
TOURNEY STARTS MONDAY
The tournament opens on Monday, the
21st, at II o'clock, with the St. Louis in
troductory, an event at 200 targets, Is
yards rise. This, as well as all other
scheduled events that follow, are open
only to amateurs. Beginning Tuesday,
the trapshooting will begin at $3.50 a. m.
The first event on Tuesday will be the
Mound City overture of 100 targets, 16
yards. Prize winners in the st. Louis in
troductory are not eligible in this event.
At IL o'clock the national amateur cham
pionship at doubles will be shot. Fifty
pairs of doubles will be thrown. At
o'clock the national amateur singles
championship will begin. This event will
be 100 targets, 16 yards rise. This event
is for the winners of the different state
championships. In case the champion
cannot attend, the runner-up is allowed
to take his place. At o'clock this after
noon and on the following two afternoons
there will be a 50-bird event for the fair
Dianas who are in attendance. There will
also be two prizes in the &c A. H." for
the fair shots who make the highest
scores.
On the 23d the preliminary handicap,
at 100 targets, 16 to % yards, will be shot
The same handicaps in the &c. A. H.
will prevail. The Handicap committee,
composed Of ]. w. Bell, chairman; R. e.
Loring, G. X. Mackie, G. V. Dering and
j. Fl. Noel. will convene on the 18th and
announce the handicaps on the Goth. The
Grand American Handicap will be shot
on the Path This will be 100 targets, 16
to % yards. On the 18th there will be a
consolation handicap, 100 targets. is to %
yards. No prize winner is eligible in this
event.
There will be special matches between
professionals, and a 100-target match
open to all professionals for the Duns-
paugh trophy, during the tournament.
These matches will take place at 8 every
afternoon. Trophies will be awarded the
shooters who make the best score from
Is. II, Is, 49, 20. q, % and % yards in the
Grand American Handicap.
The male heart weighs from 10 to IL
ounces. Its average size is about five
inches long, and one-half inches wide
and two inches in greatest DEPTH
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Comfort for a Nickel
!, Electrical World.

L
Travellers, especially statesmen, may
be heard about this time Of the year
to be kicking, in addition to the char
acter of food obtained on the road,
about the STIFFNESS of hotel rooms in
general.
Few hotels are provided with cleo
trio fans in the rooms because the
guests would be inclined to keep them
going continuously. thereby running up
a large electric bill for the hotel.
To take care Of this situation a
southern manufacturer has devised
prepayment fan, which is described in
the Electrical World. When nickel
is. dropped in the slot provided. clock
element in the base of the fan is
wound up for one hour, giving the
user one hours service of the fan.
Several. nickels can be inserted in
succession for as many hours use OF
the fan as are desired, and this pre-
Maid service can then be taken either
in one continuous breeze or in install
ments by turning the current on and
off at the socket.
The energy used in our bodies for the
work of circulation, respiration, digestion
and keeping up the temperature as equal
one day to raising $500 tons zone foot
high.
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GEORGIA-ALABAMA
LEAGUE OFFICIAL
VERAGES COMPILED
Don Flynn Leads Hitters With .365-Shaw and
Reynolds Follow-Nolly Leads Pitchers Gates
Second Wiley in Most Games With Is Wins
and Five Defeats

hiers Alabama
Annison
Flynn leading
Molly pitchers
respectively
complete batting pitching
piled President Jemison, follows
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ng pitchers for IS games:
DAILY DOPE
ON THE
SLUGGERS
Watch
'ern
Fight

By landing for two hits in as many
times at bat, Iris Speaker made a gain
of five points on Ty Cobb in the batting
averages, the Georgian failing to hit in
three times up and losing three points
from his standing of Saturday morning.
jackson also failed to hit in two trips to
the plate and fell two points.
In the National league both leaders,
Dave Robertson and Jake Daubert,
dropped, the former losing one point on
one hit in four times up and the latter
three points on one hit in five times at
the bat. Wagner again was not in the
game. The averages:
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Robertson still holds first place and
Daubert continues second among Ma
tional league batters. Hornsby leads
in total bases with 1859; Carey, Pitts
burg, in stolen bases with "a; Flack,
Chicago, in sacrifice hits with 80;
Williams, Chicago, in home runs with
10.
Burns, New York, leads in runs scored
with 66 and Brooklyn in club batting with
26O
The leading batters among those who
have played half or more of their team S
games, including last Wednesdays, are
as follows, according to averages pub
Hshed here today:
Robertson, New York, 1886; Daubert.
Brooklyn, 1928; Hornsby, St Louis, .321
Wagner, Pittsburg, .319; Chase, Gin
cinnati, .314 Long, st. Louis, BIB; Zm-
norman, Chicago, 300; Wheat, Brook
Ign, .299; Hinchman, Pittsburg, POI;
Whitfield, Philadelphia, .294 Schultz,
Pittsburg, .293.
Leading pitchers for Is games:
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SPEAKER STILL LEADS

There were few changes among Amer
lean league batters. Speaker, Cobb and
jackson are relatively in about the same
positions. Cobb now has 40 stolen bases;
Weaver, Chicago, leads in sacrifice hits
with 81; Bayer, New York, in home runs
with eight; jackson in total bases with
202; Speaker in runs scored with rs, and
Detroit in team hitting with .255. Lead
ing batters:
Speaker, Cleveland, $3.50; Cobb, Detroit,
1858; Jackson. Chicago. .S41; Roth, Cleve-
land, .319; Sisler, st. Louis, .29S; Felsch,
Chicago, .29S; Nunamaker, New York,
.297; Hoblitzel, Boston, .294; Burns, De-
troit, .293 Strunk, Philadelphia, .293
Leading pitchers for IS games:
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INTERESTING DOPE
ON TEAMS ABILITY
HOME AND ABROAD
Barons Are Best Fielding
Team at Home, But Rank
Poorly Elsewhere
VOLS WIN THE MOST
GAMES AT HOME PARK
Travellers Bat .294 on Home Lot-The
Gulls Give Barons Battle for Bot
tom Position in Each Event,
But Win Majority Easily

Some figures on how the Southern
League teams have been performing at
home and abroad would probably be of
interest to fandom of the league and the
figures are given herewith.
At home the Nashville team has the
best percentage of games won and lost,
with New Orleans second and Memphis
third. Here are the figures through last
Tuesfav's games.
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with eight; Jacob son, Little Rock, in
total bases with 1874 and Little Rock in
team hitting with .267.
Leading batters including Tuesday 8
games:
Rumler Little Rock, .341; Jacobson,
Little Rock, .339; Moran, Atlanta 1921
Thrasher, Atlanta, .317; J. Harris, Chat
tanooga, .313; Knisely, Memphis. .319; C.
Mcdonald, Atlanta, .305; Manning Little
Rock, .29S; Meusel, Birmingham, .297;
Coombs Birmingham, .296; Schmidt, Mo-
bile, 1886.
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A Simple Declaration

From the Washington Star
What are your views on the tariff?'
I'm for protection of everything that
my constituents manufacture for sale"
replied Senator Sorghum. And I favor
free trade for everything that they are
compelled to buy for cash.
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The Birmingham Barons are the best
fielding team on the road, with Memphis
second and Nashville third. Strange to
say, practically every club in the league
has fielded better on foreign soil than
they .hawe on their home grounds, Here
are the figures through Tuesdays games:
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Very Strange
From Puck.

= uCNs ~ n
Friend-What is the strangest case that
you ever had in life insurance?
Agent-Miss Oldbud. She took out
2o-year endowment policy in 1896 when she
was 10 years Of age. and It natures this
year when she Is q.
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The Little Rock Travellers are the best
hitting team on their home lot with an
average of .294 Atlanta is second and
Nashville third. Here are the figures
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FIGHT FOR BATTING
SUPREMACY SHOWS
BUT LITTLE CHANGE
iris Speaker Retains Lead Over Ty Cobb and
Dave Robertson Still Leads Jake Daubert.
Coombs and Meusel Nearing the 300 Mark.
Grimes Average Increasing

Chicago, August 12-Litte comparatively change
marked the past week the struggle for batting supremacy Of
both the American and National leagues
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The Price of Peace

From the Boston Transcript.
81 quarreled with my wife yesterday
and we haven't spoken since"
why don't you make up?"
I'm going to- All I'm worried about
now is the indemnity"
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CAROLINA LEAGUE

At Charlotte: Charlotte 6. Raleigh 3.
At Durham: Durham 4, Greensboro ..
AT Winston Salem: Winston Salem
J, Asheville 6.
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The Nashville Vols are the best field
ing team on their home lot, with the
Memphis Chicks second and New Orleans
third. Here are the figures through
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The Atlanta Crackers are the best hit
ting team away from home, with Little
Rock second and Mobile third. Here are
tho fiax,lras thro,ls oh Tue sda vs.
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The league leading Vols are also the
best road team. New Orleans is second
and Chattanooga third. Here are the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13
E. runs
GRIMES ADVANCING


Rumler, now with the Browns, still
holds the Southern association batting
lead Wares, Little Rock, leads in stolen
bases with 81; Sheehan, Nashville, in sac
rifice hits, with sc; Rumler in home runs
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South Atlantic League

At Augusta: Augusta T. Charleston /.
At Columbia: Columbia 0, Columbus 6
At Macon: Macon Z. Jacksonville 4.
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13

The male heart weighs from 10 to IL
ounces. Its average size is about five
inches long, and one-half inches wide
and two inches in greatest depth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13
HERS, RECORDS

Faulkner Admission; Of Grimm, Newton
Shook Goans Bowden OF
led to register a hit during the season..
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Danbury Hatters

U. C.-The Danbury hatters' case grew
out of n strike by union hatters employed
by ID. h. Loewe g. Co. of Danbury, Conn,
in July, 1902. The following year the COM
pany brought suit against Martin Lawler
and 239 other members OF the United Hat
ters of North America for maintaining a
boycott in violation of the Sherman anti
trust law. The defense was taken up by
the American Federation of Labor, while
the prosecution was supported by the Anti
Boycott Society of America. In 1908 the
Supreme Court handed down verdict of
Interpretation, in which it was maintained
that the acts charged constituted a viola
tion of the Sherman law. Late in 1909, in
the United States District Court at Hart
ford, jury rendered n verdict for the plain
tiff OF $4,000. Treble damages were
awarded I'm accordance with the Sherman
law. This verdict was set aside by the
Court of Appeals, but In n new trial the
Jury, late in 1919. rendered a verdict for
the plaintiff of $4,000 and costs, this sum
being trebled. The case was then taken to
the United States Circuit Court OF Appeals,
which, on December 1S, affirmed the judg-
ment of the lower court. The plaintiff got
total damages OF s272,o0O.
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WHAT MONEY CAN'T BUY

COME things cannot be bought for
~ money, as Mr., and Mrs, James Pank-
hurst, of Amboy. ILL.,. have discovered
They offered $4,000 TO be paid at their
death TO any satisfactory young woman
who would live with them and take care
Of them TO the end. They secured a girl
from Chicago, who thought she was will
ing 70 meet the conditions She has dis
covered that $4,000 is not enough TO pay
her for what was required; that is. cell
bacy and care of two old people.
But there are hundreds, IL not thou
sands. OF young women who are doing for
nothing In this State that for which this
Chicago girl was 10 receive a considerable
sum There Is doubtless no reader OF this
article who IS not acquainted with one
or more girls who are living at home
and taking care OF the old folks Just be-
cause they need her care. Some OF them
are supporting a widowed mother or an
invalid father with uncomplaining deyo-
ton. And there are young men equally
unselfsh.
no money could buy this service and
no money could pay for il. The fact that
il Is rendered freely Is one Of the things
which make this wicked old world worth
living IN
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WHY NEGROES DON'T VOTE

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger
Slr-After reading your editorial. BE
Fair to the South" have been trying to
recall the schemes resorted TO by the va
rious States to restrict the negro vote. My
wife asked the "how?" and though I've
read from time to time of its being done, l
couldn't fully tell her how they got around
the Fifteenth Amendment TO the Constitu-
tion. l know the way isn't the same in
all the States. but ! couldn't answer her
question as l wanted to. Please inform me,
and oblige. H. S.
Philadelphia. November %.
[The grandfather clause" was declared
unconstitutional by the United States Su-
nreme Court several -" ago. 1t was
Indirectly the instrument of dIsrranChise-
ment Many of the Southern States imposed
strict property and educational qualifica-
tions for voters The effect was to dis
franchise thousands OF whites as we'll as
blacks. The additional provision. however,
that no man should be disqualified whose
father or grandfather had been legal
voter, say in 1867, allowed lliterate whites
10 retain their vote. The disfranchisement
of blacks is accomplished now entirely by
means of property and educational tests,
together with a certain social pressure"
that keeps blacks away from the polls By
general consent In the South the whites
fight their political differences out I'm pri-
marles and unite thereafter 10 support in
the regular election the primary nominees.
Editor Of the EVENING LEDdER.l
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..Rest.selllng" skim in lltern

'Best.selling" skin in literature and
eratory reaches its apex in the Nebraska
peace zone OF statesmanship, but the
President could beat Bryan at It, IT'S
said the address TO Congress will be 1000
words long, which is so short that nine
out OF ten will read it. whereas but one
IN ten read the old encyclopedia mes
Bages. Mr.. Wilson has written somewhere
that the reason the spoken address to
Congress was abandoned was because
President Jefferson was an uncertain
speaker, 1t took us more than cen.
fury to evolve a man very sure OF him
self. evidently but there is something
more 10 It than that. 1t is that little in
production to the newspaper stories telling
about the President leaving the White
House in an auto at s;Ss and wearing a
high hat, etc. ''Why." exclaimed the
Colonel. according to the eartoonist, "did
/ never think OF THAR
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SOCIAL REVOLUTION
To tho Editor ot the Epeninp Ledaer

4 tHo HuitOT oJ tHb evening LCugoT:
Sir--If the railroad managers of the
country really try to stop the enforcement
of the Adamson law they will simply prove
themselves to be a pack of ignoramuses
in 30 far as their ethical conception of tho
future is concerned, at least They cannot
any more make void the legislative essence
of that law than they could turn republican
America back into "A monarchy, For their
own good and for the good of us all, they
had better soon be duly impressed with the
fact tn6t they and their kind can gain an
immeasurably larger amount of real profit
In the end by intelligently anticipating the
host of similar laws which are to come,
rather than by bigOtedly encouraging an
opposition which will powerfully tend to
fashion the times when such institutions
shall be established by sheer force in the
hands of the labor element So let these
powers that be in our land with wisdom
submit to tho great economic changes which
are surely and inevitably coming upon us,
backed up by the resistless might of awak-
ening and arising forces which no power
or combination OF power on earth could
ever permanently Withstand.
CHARLES c. RHODES, Jr.
Philadelphia. November "a.
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GIVING THANKS

To the EduoT OF tHe EVe"lHV LeuVSI'
sIr-'It is a good thing to give thanks
unto the Lord. Psalms, Xcil, l. There are
perhaps few people In the world whose con-
dltlons, or circumstances are so unfoTtu-
nate but that there are others even more
unfortunate. Without any appearance,
therefore. OF being pharisaical. vast ma
jorty can give thanks that they are not as
others are. This probably holds true not
only in the life of the individual, but in
that OF the nation as we'll, and is especially
applicable at this time in the life OF our
own nation as compared with those nations
in the agonies OF war,
These thoughts suggested themselves to
nv mind in contemplating the near ap-
proach of our national Thanksgiving, when
we are enjoined to give thanks for the
peace and prosperity which has been be-
slowed upon our own country, and at the
same time think of the distress Of those In
war-stricken Europe. Even though there
are those among us, who perhaps for their
own Standardization, or aggrandizement,
think this country should be at war. we
have abundant reason 10 be devoutly
thankful that we are, broadly speaking at
peace with all the world; that our fair
land has not been drenched with hlood, and
that we are but indirectly sharing in the
responsibility OF such being the case in
other lands When, however, Il comes 20
giving thanks for our prosperity, and We
take into consideration the part we are
playing In the great war drama now being
enacted upon the stages OF Europe. and
the fact that our much yaunted prosperity
Is so largely due TO that titanic struggle Il
would seem that those who are the direct
beDehciarles OF that conflict would find Il
difficult to give thanks tor tueir prosperity
without a considerable qualm OF conscience.
Then there are hosts OF others. whose in
come has not kept pace with the Increase in
the cost OF living. 70 whom the apparent
prosperity OF the country Is but phantom
or . vision. as Il were, beyond their grasp.
ana who therefore cannot well give
thanks without some degree of mental
reservation.
So Whils this festal occasion Will most
undoubtedly. have have = dark side to
lsome IS Is va hays> q brlktt ~ 3