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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-28
THE PHILLY-DODGER SERIES
THE BEGINNING OF THE END
BUT MAY NOT BE CONCL LJJSTvE
BY GRANTLAND RICE

late August Brooklyn had bea,er a..
lies ten games to four. Then in ny ~. fhll.
series played the Phnlies bagseS ,ast
straight, making II ten 10 nina ~ 49, I'VE
Robby's excited troop. " iAVor OF
OI late Brooklyn hasn't been 49,
strong in these important serl.. 700
ROBINS, however, took three our =, tne
from Boston at home, but droppeA a., .'ur ~
row to the Phillles. Having bea,en NJ p.,I N
iyn nve times running, the PhiIlIe. ,,,,ss
na.uIs,y ma. Deheve they can take at least ,.,
OUT OF three with Alexander on hand \, ~ ~
sure one victory, and with Demaru 70 N.
hkey to go after the other two. anu
All in all, IT'S a complex sltua,,o,
may not be settled until the middls - @ VIA.
week or even until the final game. 'oA'
The East-West Controversy
Sir--In regard to the East-wes, cor.-.
versy In the way OF sporting s,,,-.sn'noo senero-
kindly look over these returns. ''"seY
Heavyweight champion--willard Ks,...
Light heavyweight-Dillon Indiana
Observation-Disclosures Ohio
swimming champion-Langer, Callfor,,.
Open golf champion-Evans InInn,s "'> -
Amateur golf champlon-Tvans ti,In.,.
National League batting charnpion
Chase, California. :
American League batting chamn,o,
Speaker, Texas. y !
American winning pltcher--John.o,
Idaho. ''or'
National League leading pitcher--A,sv.
ander, Nebraska
Here in boxing swimming. golf and bs.,
ball the West holds the champione' leavir.
the East the tennis championship oni,,
Out of dozen firsts the West has eleys,,
and the East one. IL there is any lonre,
any doubt as to which section provides n,os.
Of the sporting title holders, the abovs
count Just about should close out the AZ.
Date' A. d. r.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-28

going, each having qualified to act as ann
bassador from his own particular section
of the United States.
These players viii be drawn at match
play and more than $4,000 will be whacked
up midst the fracas for the title as the
various good warriors fall.
The sixteen men beaten the first day will
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-28
Batting Records Prove Nothing

rHE of
to
presidents
money
all included finding
wonderful Cobb
An example the mistake of given
Not only
pitchers played
hits poorly allowed
Chase the batting
Hushey Fullerton
Phes We viii wager that carrs RosnDoe % O RS o
willing
judged by figures He is today the e, left ss s @
ball.
Collins
December the
spbaI
any foreign substance on the bali by pitchers and n
a
Some OF the masnaes favor giving Philadelphia
making fah bali which
other parks will be considered a
Mccarty was
traded 10 the Giants by the Robins
beswn the clubs
series money the Dodgers were fortunate their for the National
% play against the interests of the Giants
II Jack Barry able to get into the worlds series the
chances OF the Red sox again coping worlds series
- - -, ~ y S", @ .r % non on c a & and Il was due in great
the PhnAes had started With victory.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-28
PLAYING OF MACK RECRUITS
GIVES AS HOPES OF RISING
HIGH IN 1917 PENNANT RACE
Thrasher and Grover, Viewed by Fans Here for
First Time, Expected to Plug Gaps
in New Machine


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aea Of wha
OF 10
n a
the trip right
of
Nick needless
his
IL
though the had deciding
Ebbets on
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February
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Brooklyn
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-21
Lumbering Industry and
Effect of Underwood Tariff

for cedar logs at Vancouver are $10.5O
per 1000 feet for shingle cedar and $l2..
20 to $3.50 per 1000 feet for logs suit
able for cedar lumber, while at 50 to
$40 per thousand feet and at Grays Har,
Dor, Washington, $ll was the highest
No sepcitic price was given at Seattle
for cedar logs.
About the time the law went into
effect admitting free shingles, the West
Coast Lumberman, published at Seattle
contained an article from its Everett,
Wash, correspondent that the admiss.
ion of free shingles would be the best
thing that could happen to shingle manu-.
facturers in Washington, because it
would compel them to make as good
shingles MS British Columbia. The item
stated that the British Columbia manu-
facturers used the best part of the log
in producing shingles, while in Washing.
ton as general rule they used the best
parts for cedar siding and other high
priced lumber and used the portions of
the log which do not make well into
high priced lumber, thereby realizing
moro money.
There are not many shingles made in
Oregon, on account of the scarcity of
dar.
| have no information as to the diff.
ference of the cost of labor here or in
British Columbia, but doubt if it is
any less there. l have read statements
by shingle manufacturers from British
Columbia that we can make about n
thousand shingles more per day ON this
side with the same machines as they
use, because of the greater efficiency
OF our men.
l am at loss to understand how the
admission OF British Columbia shingles
free of duty can hurt the sale of our
shingles, when, according to the quota
tious given, the cheapest or lowest
priced shingles in British Columbia are
20 cents higher than the best or high.
est priced ones in Portland, and % cents
higher than Seattle.
As to British Columbia lumber enter.
ing this country, will say that anybody
who is interested can ascertain that
when there was demand for lumber in
the western provinces of Canada, we
shipped lumber by trainloads to them |
venture to say that there is as much
Misrepresentation regarding the effect
OF the tariff ON all products of the
Northwest as have shown exists in the
shingle industries,
THOMAS KISSANE.
Timber Broker.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-21

vance was in skirmish formation and
far more difficult to stop.
Men began to fall behind the
breast-work. Bullets sang over their
heads and spat viciously into the wall
in front of them.
But fifteen of the needed twenty
minutes had elapsed. II they could
hang on for five more!
They were firing at will now. The
volleys had ceased, but there was a
steady, continuous rattle of musketry.
The colonel walked back and forth
behind his line, flercely chewing his
mustache, pausing to glance at the
cloud of skirmishers coming steadily
on. or noting with a groan that his
left was overlapped for a quarter of
a mile and must speedily be turned.
1t could not be helped He was
holding what he could, but his line
was woefully thin and every moment
becoming thinner The singing bull
lets took steady toll.
Down the slope before the stone
wall mass CT men pressed forward
yelling. The thin line behind the wall
concentrated all its fire upon them,
but it no longer availed. On they
came, dogged, determined.
Men dropped steadily, but still they
came on. The twenty minutes were
up. Where were the reinforcements +?
The colonel glanced about. Woods
behind him shut out all view of the
regiments and brigades hurrying
breakneck to the rear that had be-
come the front.
All he knew was that he was alone,
protecting the army from overwhelm-
ing defeat. Cowards, were they?
Even in that red, fiery moment he
had time for an instant of bitter pride
and exultation as he viewed his dead
behind the stone wall.
The rushing mass in front was
close up now. He knew he could not
stop them. He lacked the men. He
had held them back for more than the
time demanded of him.
Should he order his men to fall
back? The regiment had done its
work. More could not reasonably be
asked of them.
They were outfanked on either
hand, and about to be overwhelmed.
Should he order them back?
There came to him another thought.
They called us cowards," and with
that he hurried along the line with
the command, 'Tix bayonets."
He would stay there and meet
them, If it cost him every man. "They
called us towards, boys" he shouted.
This is our chance"
On came that yelling wave in front.
Loading and firing as fast as they
could, the remnant of the regiment
could not stop it. Put not a man be-
hind the stone wall f:nched before it,
The ir2y.tabic we. 1gs t. are
in every .c5. ue1t lid long sin e
sour''' 10 rear. csc who stayct.
wcuIu sta. tc tho .nu.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-21

a shout OF triumph broke out. These
should be the first fruits of their vic
tory. The colonel, crouching now be-
hind the wall, surveyed them coming,
only his head projecting above the
coping.
The impatient privates fingered
their weapons and cursed beneath
their breath: Would they never get
the word to fire? Were they to be
run over again and trampled on with
cut chance?
A hundred yards away a compact
line of men was toiling up the slope.
In the road column swung forward
full in the face of the silent guns.
Then when mems nerves were fairly
swapping with the tension, the colonel
gave the word
The front of the stone wall burst
into flame, and above the rattle of
musketry> came the bursting roar of
the guns in the road, as the gunners
leaped from concealment. Out on the
grassy slope the first line of hurrying,
eager men melted into shapeless
masses on the ground.
In the road the grape and canister
tore great holes in the compact col
umn. The surprisers were surprised,
The front ranks recoiled, shattered
out of all semblance to formation.
But the attack was delayed for only
a moment. Behind that foremost
rank was another which came stead
lily on, leaving a man now and then
sprawling out or writhing in the
grass, but driving straight forward
Notwithstanding. Down the line be-
hind the stone wall went the COM
mand, Cease firing"
1t almost caused mutiny, but the
officers persuaded the madmen to
obey. The enemy came on with n
yell then. Evidently it was but an in
significant force in their front. They
were minded to run over them.
Yelling like sfiends, they rushed
across the open. 1t was Bunker Hill
repeated. Again the colonel let them
come within a hundred yards before
he gave the command to- fire, and
again when the order came. and the
sheet of flame burst forth the advanc-
ing line withered as beiOe the breath
from a blazing blast-furnace.
Flesh and blood could not face It.
They were men who would go un-
finchingly where there was one
Chance of coming through.
Here there was none. . 1t was DEATH
bald and certain. Those who could
recoiled down the slope. Many
stayed silent in the grass.
Meanwhile the carnage in the road
was fearful. The steady plying of the
guns loaded with grape and canister
had piled the advancing column in
mass of dead and dying till the order
came to halt and deploy across the
adjoining field.
This added to the labors of the de-
voted Molliecoddles. The next ad-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-21
That British Columbia Lumber

Portland, Oct. l6,-To the editor of
the .Iournal-I have seen Judge Burke 5
statement in the Journal stating that
records of the custom house of Portland
show for the past 10 years that no lum-
her or shingles have been shipped into
Oregon from British Columbia, and l
have also read many statements in re.
publican papers aud speeches by repub-
lican congressman and stump speakers,
that the placing of shingles on the free
list has permitted British Columbia
shingles to come into the United States
free and has in some instances closed
down shingle mills and ruined our shin.
gle industries because OF the cheaper
timber and labor obtainablc on the Bri-
tish Columbia side.
The Timberman, published at Port
land and an authority ON west coast
lumber products, at pages So and SO in
its September issue, gives the prices of
cedar shingles at Vancouver, b, C. rang.
ing from $2,05 to $2.70 per thousand, to
the wholesale trade according to grade,
and at Seattle from $3.50 to $3.50, and
at cortland from Sl55 to Sl.s5 per 1000
according to grade. The prices given
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-21
Welded AT WOODBURY..

One of the most beautiful and elab-
crate weddings ever in this city took
place at st. Luke's Catholic Church
last Monday morning at 9 O'Clock,
when Miss Della Beck, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs +. X. Beck of this city,
was united in marriage to Mr.. George
Harry Lenox, Rev. c. A. Maher of
ficiating. The ushers were Mr.. Oscar
Beck and Mr.. j. C. Scollard The
church had been tastefully decorated
in autumn leaves and ferns by the
Misses Mary and Madge Scollard
Following vocal selection, "Oh,
Promise Me- by Mrs. Don C. Cowles,
and to the strains of Mendelssohn IS
"Wedding March," played by Sister
Clementine, the wedding party entered
the church and proceeded up the main
aisle to the altar. The lovely bride,
upon her fathers arm, was> preceded
by six members of the B-Natural Octet,
Misses Mary and Madge Scollard, Mrs.
T. c. Poorman, Mrs. Don Cowles, Mrs.
Homer Alleman and Mrs. II. NJ. Austin,
who acted as bridesmaids, and the
maid of honor, her sister, Miss Nora
Beck. The groom with the best man.
Mr.. A. j. Beck, met the party at the
altar and the six bridesmaids returned
to the choir.
At the Beck home there were IS
covers at the fine wedding breakfast,
served by Mrs. ]. B. Kennedy and
Mrs. Robt. II. Scott. Among those
who sat down TO the elaborate spread
were the bride and groom, maid of
honor, bridesmaids. groomsman, Mr. and
Mrs. Beck and daughter Margaret
ushers. the Misses Bitney and Miss
Helen Scollard.
The bride was the recipient of many
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-21
WILLIAM IL. WHEELER.
(The above letters are reprinted from
the Portland Daily Journal.)
More About Lumber.

NEuStne Ddiiy Nudtu'l
On the first page OF the Eugene Morn
ing Register the following Associated
Press dispatch was printed this morn
ing:
Portland, Or, Oct. 17.-Ten million
feet Of lumber will be exported to fore.
ign ports from Portland and other lower
Columbia points during the next week
or two, according to announcements of
lumber mills here today. This is the
most extensive offshore lumber trade
recorded here in many months. The
Shipments include 3,500,000 feet to the
United Kingdom, 100000 to Balboa
and 100000 feet of Hawaii and Aus
tralia.
On the editorial page, the editor ac-
cuses the Guard and other newspapers
which have challenged republican cam
paign statements regarding the lumber
market before and since the passage
of the Underwood bill with misrepresen-
tation. Read the Portland dispatch
carefully. Ten million feet of lumber
within two weeks. This is not campaign
material, 1t is news item. Oregon
is shipping lumber to the United King.
dom and Australia. Yet the editor of
the Register insists Canadian lumber is
being shipped into the United States
and competition is being severely felt
in loss of orders" The truth is reveal
ed by the news AS printed in the Regis
ter puts damper on the editors cam
paign assertions, We are exporting to
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-21

British possessions.
Several days ago Lane county far.
mer who is 4 republican and who is sup.
porting President Wilson, came into the
Guard office. Before the passage OF
the Underwood tariff bill he said he
built a house and that he paid 81 per
thousand for the lumber Recently he
stated he had built another house and
paid SIS for the lumber.
The editor of the Guard Yesterday
following this statement made an inves-
tgation of the lumber market in Eu-
gene. The dealer stated that the far
mer did not buy this lumber from the
same class of dealer at such great
variance in prices. That the first pur-
chase must have been made from a small
country NIL and the last from It jobber,
he stated.
The farmers figures, so far as they
affect conditions before and after the
passage of the Underwood tariff, how
ever, We're sustained by the dealer. TAX
ing figures from his books for 1912 and
1916, increase in the price of lumber
are shown as follows: common lumber,
25 to 35 per cent higher; dressed lum
b. T. 10 to 10 per cent higher; shingles,
S5 per cent higher.
Following statement sent out from
the republican campaign headquarters
and published in many Oregon standpat
republican papers to the effect that
"under the Underwood law Canada is
selling in Oregon and Washington an
nually about $25 100000 worth of lum-
Der and shingles" Thomas c. Burke,
collector of customs for Portland, issued
u statement to the effect that "no lum
Der of any kind or shingles, has been
imported into Oregon from Canada at
any time during the past 10 years."
As an official of the United States
government, not as a democratic cam
paigner, he denied falsehood spread
about this state for the purpose of de-
ceiving Oregon people.
'1t' has been a very conspicuous
word throughout the republican cam
paign. 1t has been repeatedly asserted
that "if the war should end We would
need n higher protective tariff on lum-
ber, " The news item as taken from the
Register and published in connection
with this editorial sheds some light on
conditions which win prevail on the Pa
cific coast after the war comes to an
end, While the war is in progress we
are exporting l0,0O0,000 feet of lumber
within two weeks. After the war, the
Pacific coast will enjoy the most pros
porous era in its history. Europe is GO
ing to rebuild its cities. The lumber
supply of the world is very limited. The
Pacific coast is going to be in the ex-
port business. Its mills will hum with
industry as never before. No high tar
iff on lumber is going to bring about
this condition. 1t is going to come, be
cause we have the lumber and the facil-
tiles to supply it, Under the circum-
stances high tariff on lumber would
bring about but one condition. 1t would
permit the mills to sell TO the American
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-21

across the river. the enemy proceeded
to take the offensive. BY rapid
march in the night a long column
crossed the river some miles above,
aiming by wide detour to fall sud
denly and Unexpectedly upon the rear
OF the demoralized force.
So silently and swiftly was this
maneuver accomplished that no word
of it reached the rival general till his
communications had been cut and a
frightened crowd of teamsters and
camp-followers came streaming up
the road.
Close on their heels appeared the
van of the eager enemy. In their
way stood only the despised and re-
jected Molliecoddles.
At the first sign of trouble the
colonel of the regiment deployed his
men across the road and prepared to
hold that line It'll the cows came
home"
A stone fence afforded excellent
protection and the Molliecoddles
spread themselves along this breast
work with the hot blood humming in
their veins. Cowards, Ell?
They would show what sort of cow
ards they were. They ceased that
moment to be collection of units,
and were in a way to become regi-
ment.
They were madmen, most of them,
ready to go red-eyed and homicidal
at pin-prick. They had been goaded
and buffeted with no chance to reply.
They had read ironical newspaper
comments by men who had never
smelled powder till their nerves
were strung like hair-triggers.
Almost to a man, they yearned for
slaughter with the primitive thirst of
sayaSery. They wanted to get square
They wanted to clear themselves
They wanted to show up their critics
for the blatant liars they were.
Across a field in front of them came
a line of hurryins men, followed by
another and another They were
overlapped on either flank. What
matter? An aide galloped up to the
colonel.
Hold them for twenty minutes!"
was his cry, almost despairing Hold
them u you lose every man."
"I'E hold EN-" said the colonel
grimly.
He new the temper Of his men. 1t
was identical with lis own.
Direc a b.>,tery whirled up and
unllmb d in the road. That would
help. The staff officer had gone to
hurry up the support. The colonel
stalked along his line.
Across the oran ground in front
the enc ny neareA rapidly. They came
almost reokl sssly, expo citing little op-
position. The only task they saw be-
the river.
They - = or = - ne wall with
yell. =, ~ = as in the road
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-21

They were lamentably few, but
those few were bad men to face. At
their colonel's call they rose, gripping
their weapons, whole men, men with
bleeding heads, men with limp arms,
men who rose only to fall again and
again struggle to rise.
With yell the wave broke over
the stone wall, and in an instant the
MolliecoddfeS were overwhelmed.
Fighting like demons, madmen, or
heroes, they went down before su-
perior numbers. but not before they
had taken full toll for their defeat.
Through his glasses the general in
command saw their heroic stand. The
regiments breaking from the woods
behind saw it and burst into cheers.
A sudden wave of firing broke out on
either flank, and then the conquering
enemy. reeled before the charge OF
the advancing regiments.
A moment Of fighting hand to hand,
bayonet to bayonet, ant then the
fresh troops dropped beHlnd the stonsy
wall and poured calling fire into
the retreating foe. The day was won,
the army was saved, and it was the
Molliecoddles who had done it.
In the camp of the Moliecoddles
that evening men sat weary and de-
jected about the fires. Their attitude
seemed much the same as on that
other evening. There were gaps in
every group, and mems voices were
low and awestricken.
They discussed their casualties with
an appearance of wonderment. Tuck
er's gone, eh?" BILLY AIKEN got it in
the head" They've took off Nor
tons leg" and so forth.
How's the Old Man to-night?"
asked one. Heard anything?"
They say he's don' well. II ha
pulls through, l reckon they'll make
him brigader."
TOO bad they got him. He hadn't
ought to have stood up"
well, anyway, we held EN-"
That was the finale always. No
matter what had come to pass, no
matter who had died, or who was
wounded, or who was missing: "Well,
we held 'em."
A battery came past, the trace
chains rafting, the wheels clankirg
in the ruts.
What regiment is that?" called an
officer.
THE Molliecoddles." cam, the de-
fiant answer.
"Oh!" said the officer, and the bat
terry moved oil.
But every gunner's eyes turned sud-
denly toward the camp-tires, and the
Molliecoddles returned TIE gaze with
erect heads. 1t was as though they
asked: IF it wasn't for us, where
would you be?"
And from the faces of the gunners
one understood that they had no ade-
quato answer.
(copWi0ht The Frank 4. Munscy Ca)
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-21

clerks and small business men in a
certain well.known city. Their hands
we're white and soft and their chests
not astonishing either for length or
breadth.
Therefore. because the spirits less
easily discerned than the flesh, their
comrades-in-arms, veterans Of two
campaigns, dubbed them the Mollie-
coddles on their first appearance.
The regiment suffered the label
with only a mild resentment. Indi-
idualiy. they knew they were not
towards. and they trusted confidently
in the future to justify their presence
in arms.
AS regiment they had not yet
found themselves. They had no esprit
de corps They were a collection of
units instead of the cingl and par
ticular entity reGimerC should be.
Then cane .e astropne.
The army vas cling the encw.
with river in =, rear, and !. SO
hapL d thai the Iolliecoddles held
th0 trer right wing. Here the
general commanding made his initial
mistake, 1880, ..... ........,..... .
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-21

IN the camp of the Molliecoddles,
at the rear with the baggage
wagons, men sat silent about the
fires and avoided one another'5 eyes.
Now and then one cursed bitterly
and the others would turn his way for
al instant and then come back to
their vacant staring. Bcwilderment
seemed to be their attitude, utter
blind bewllderment
'We never had u chance" NUT
tered one. I'VE never had a chance"
Another suddenly flung down a
paper he had been reading in the red
light, cursed like a drover for a mo.
ment, and fell silent again.
In his tent the colonel spoke bit
terly to his adiutant.
They needed scapegoat, and
they've pitched on us" he said.
A common sentiment ran from the
head OF the regiment to the meanest
private in the ranks. 1t was, more
over perfectly legitimate, we'll.
founded sentiment, and the fac
upon which 1t was based were the
Tho Molllecoddles were a brand
now regiment Most of them had been