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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-30

The final count was 9 to 2.
1t was a rotten exhibition of the
national pastime. The Barons played
lifeless game and although they OBJ
tanned a one-run lead in the second
inning, the big session the Gulls had
in the third took the life out of the
game. The attendance was kept down
by brief shower a few minutes be-
fore the game in Birmingham, while
the rain halted the game in the latter
half Of the second inning for ten
minutes.
When play was resumed, Danny Clark
worked Wiley for walk. Jimmy Eschen
sacrificed. Mike Hauser popped out but
Kid Cation beat out his hit back of sec
ond. Cation stole SECOND, and when
Schmidt threw wild to third to catch
Danny, who was slightly off the bag,
the Baron keystoner coupted, and Cation
took third. That ended the Barons' scor-
ing until the ninth inning, when they
attempted very feeble rally, with the
support of the Gulls.
GULLS GET GENEROUS
Harry Swacina staged bit of big league
stuff when he snagged Jimmy Eschens
liner and converted it into double kill
ing. Mike Hauser then singled to right
and stole second with no objection on the
part of the Gulls. 1t was a wonderful bit
OF base running. Kid Cation then sent
a screamer to center, and Mike again
pulled some great base running. scoring
with the Gulls permission. Elmer Pom
der ended the fatal game with liner to
left
The Gulls' big innings came in the
third, and all sorts of fireworks was fur
nished. Seven runs were scored before
single man was retired. To start the UNI
doing of the parson finger Holley hit
roller to Cation and took second when the
Kid used the bleacher for a target. His
aim was perfect. Wiley hunted and was
safe when Perrymans throw pulled
Clark off the bag. Danny Gondofi, an
other recruit from the Georgia-Ala bama
league, pasted one over short and Holley
and Wiley counted. Danny counted
when Cation threw wild to the plate to
catch Wiley. Massey singled to center
and Mcdowell followed with safety to
left AT this juncture, Moley jerked the
parson from the firing line, and. Elmer
Ponder was ushered into the slaughter.
STILL SCORING
Elmer, to start things off right, un-
corked a wild pitch and the runners adj
vanced a bag. He then hit Schmidt on
the leg, and the bases were crammed to
capacity. Mike Burke waited Ponder out
and received a free pass, Massey being
forced across Harry Swacina singled to
right and Mcdowell and Schmidt scored.
Wilcox singled to left and Burke scored.
Holley, up for the second time in the
inning, went out, second to first. Wiley
hunted and Swacina scored. 1t was
Moley's favorite play, the squeeze. Wiley,
however, was out. Gondolfi walked, and
the double steal was worked, Wilcox
scoring. Massey ended the disastrous
session with q roller to Ponder
The Guls had other chances to score,
but played an Indifferent game, due to
their safe lead The Barons didn't have
the slightest chance to overcome the
lead, and the fans were forced to witness
another rotten imitation of the national
pastime.
FIRST
Mobile-Gondolf flied to center. Massey
flied to right. Mcdowell out. Clark to
Derrick. No runs. no hits. no errors.
Birming ham-McDonald singled to CEN
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-30

Summary: Two-base hits, Jacobson,
Chapman Harris Three-base hit. Walk
er. Home run. Harris. Stolen base,
Holmquist. Sacrifice hit. Merritt Double
plays, Graft to Pitler to Hyatt; Holm
quist to Barbara to Coyington. Base on
balls, Merritt Z, Bacon l, Peters 3, Holm
quist 8. Hits apportioned. Merritt IA with
10 runs none out in sixth; Bacon with
2 runs in l inning. Hit by pitcher, Holm
quist (Harrs). Struck out, Merritt 8,
Peters I, Holmquist q Wild pitch, Mer-
ritt Time. 2:30. Umpires. Morgan and
KERN
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TIMELY RAIN GIVES
CRACKERS DECISION

Atlanta, Ca, July 29.-Aided by a timely
rain which stopped the game after one
man had been retired in the second half
of the fifth, the Crackers won a game
from New Orleans, 2 to 0, here today.
The locals made one in the first and
another in the second by hits and Peli-
can error. The New Orleans team,
which had won the first two gan OF the
series, missed two chances to tally in
the game played today. Score:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-30
NASHVILLE VOLS
AGAIN DOWN CHICKS

Nashville. July 29.-Nashville took the
third successive shut-out game from
Memphis by punching hits on Barger in
the first and sixth innings. The score
was to 0. giving the local four of the
five games. In the sixth inning Nashville
batted around. three doubles, two sin
giles and an intentional base on balls
accounting for three runs. Score:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-30
Longzvell Confident Winner
Can be Produced at HOwQrd
New Athletic Director Anxious for Gridron
New Athletic Field Being Rushed to Completion
BY CLARENCE G. THOMSON

Planning to push all branches of out
door athletics end gymnastics, work on
the Howard college annette field is be-
ing pushed. The south campus at East
Lake is being graded rapidly and a
number of teams and men are busy
each day in order to complete the grad
ing and surfacing by September 1.
According to members OF the Alumni
association, who are in charge of the
Improvement, Howard will have one
of the finest atheletic fields in the south
when the work is complete. For years
the Baptist teams have been greatly
handicapped for a sufficiently large and
smooth field, The grounds back OF the
main building were partly graded a
few years ago, but the work was not
completed.
Seeing the necessity of such move
members of the alumni got busy sew
eral weeks ago and through their sub
scriptions and donations from mem bers
of the student body, work in grading,
lowering, extending and surfacing the
field was commenced. 1t is estimated
that the work on this field will cost
UP into the thousands of dollars.
Departing from tho old idea Of col
lege athletics, Howard college will this
year attempt to bring into service all
branches of outdoor gymnastics. For
a number of years the college has
produced no basketball team, or any
other team except football and base
ball. However, with the coming of Dr.
j. B. Longwell as the new athletics d.
rector, plans are being made for all
kinds of exercise for the physical Gull
ture Of students.
HOWARD TO RISE
Dr. Longwell is recognized one of
the best posted men in the country on
college athletics, and supporters of the
Baptist institution are expecting much
good to come from his connection at
Howard. While all are reconciled to
the fact that Howard cannot be put on
par with leading teams in the S. l.
A. A. in the next year, or two years, but
they are placing odds against Howard
ranking among the leading colleges IN
the state within three years.
Many inquiries have been made
since | came back to Birmingham re-
grading the whereabouts of Jimmie
Williams and Wyskham, the two famous
ringers that played with Howard
teams in 1909, when 1 was coaching it."
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Games Today
South Atlantic League

At Columbia Columbia 0, Charles
ton @
At Jacksonville: Jacksonville 2, CO.
lumbus !.
At Augusta: Augusta .. Macon !.
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SUMMARY
Two-base Hits-Gondolf and Hauser.
Stolen Bases-Gondolfi, Massey, Wilcox,
Hauser, Cation.
DoublA Plays-Gondolh to Massey 20
Swacina; Swacina (unassstedD; Smith to
Mcdonald.
Bases on Balls-Ponder :, Wiley l.
Left on Bases-Mobile 4. birmingham :
Hit by Pitched Ball-Ponder (Schraidt)
Hits-Off Perryman with runs in 2
innings
Wild Pitch-Ponder
Time of Game-2:01
Umpires-Breitenstein and O'Toole.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-30

1t has been estimated that the sense Of
smell in human being can detect the
three hundred millionth part Of a grain OF
muak.
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said DR.. Longwell yesterday. There
are also questions being asked as to
whether l will bring them or other
famous ringers into the game at How
ard. To this, l wish to state that How
ard will use no ringers in the future.
I closed out my business in New FORK
and connected myself with Howard col
lege permanently, for the sole purpose
of building and elevating athletics.
While Howard has been sticking strict
ly to the S. I. A. A. rules since be-
coming a member, we expect to con-
tinue in the association and to play
clean athletics in every way.
while 1 cannot say what I will be
able to develop In the way of a foot
ball team for next season, prospects
look fairly good. 1 do not know ans of
the men I will have to work with. what
they can do or how far I can depend
upon them I will have to build strictly.
from local material. and practically I'M
experienced material; SO there is moth
ing definite that l can say.
WILL HAVE GOOD MEN
From what others have told me, /
think Howard will have some good
men. as most of the last years teams,
1 understand, are planning to return,
together with some good material from
high schools. I am going to put them
to work as soon as possible. and IL
work will add to making a team we
will have one.
I'VE will be facing a situation that,
in my opinion, will make US all work.
and that is the opening game al Rick
wood Field with Auburn. l know what
that means, as I played them the first
game in 1909. with the crimson and blue
warriors. We had a hard fight and held
them to two touchdowns made in the
last five minutes of play. the score be-
ing IL to 0. While both teams have
strengthened considerably since that
time. and Auburn has been leading the
state for the last few years in foot
ball, we are going to try to give them
good fight for victory"
DR.. Longwell appeared delighted
with prospects out at Howard. He
probably is one of the most enthusiastic
athletes in the country and anything
in the way of good, clean sport is not
passed up by him. He was more than
pleased with the work being done on
the athletic field, and said that he was
going in for football, track, tennis,
baseball and all kinds of outdoor gym
nastics, until the gymnasium is built,
when he thinks many other forms Of
physical culture may be introduced
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Chattanooga ...................... 900 00"-0
Called in last half sixth inning account
Of rain.
Summary: Two-base hits. jacobson.
Stolen bases. Harris. Sacrifice hit, Allen.
Double play. Hyatt to Harris to Peters.
Base on balls, Allen g. Baumgardner l.
Hit by pitcher, Baumgardner ! (Hyatt)
Struck out, Allen 8, Baumgardner h
Time. ITO. Umpires. KERN and Morgan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-30
Southern League Standing

Results Yesterday
Birmingham 2. Mobile 9.
Atlanta 2, New Orleans 0.
Little Rock IS, Chattanooga I.
Nashville 4. Memphis o.
Games Today
Birmingham at Nashville.
New Orleans at Memphis.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-30

Cook out. hit by batted ball.
Score by innings
Memphis Observation-Disclosures 900 900 900
Nashville .........................1 100 003 0Os-4
Summary: Two-base hits, Baker, Will
liams. ELAN, Chadbourne. Double plays,
Sheehan to Kaufman; Kaufman, ELAN
to Kaufman. Struck out Ellis 2, Barger
J. Sacrifice hit, Sheehan. Stolen base,
Kores. Time. las. Umpires, Rudderham
and Hart.
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SCALED in fifth, with one out.
Score by innings:
Atlanta Observation-Disclosures. 10 o.
Summary: Two-base hits, Thrasher.
Perkins. Sacrifice hit, Munich. Struck
out Brennan 8. Smith l. Double play,
Mcdonald unassisted. Umpires, Will
liams and Pfenninger. Time As minutes.
Called on account of rain.
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oh! Gee, but that was a rotten
O
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Correction, Nope, it cannot be
called a game, but 1t can be truly
an imitation on the part of the
BarOnS.
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FIRST

Mobile-Gondolf flied to center. Massey
flied to right. Mcdowell out, Clark to
Derrick. No runs. no hits. no errors.
Bir1ning ham-McDonald singled to CEN
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Agony and everything else was
endured. Would certainly been lucky
to have been on vacation in
order to miss that affair. The Gulls
played a real game. They were
chucked full of scrap and started
the game determined to win. The
Barons were lifeless, not at the
start, but after the neat little
lead had been secured by the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-30

"Rube' Marshall will not likely pitch
again this season. according to his
physician. He has been operated >on
and is not expected to recover suffi-
GENTLY to get back in the game With
this star gone and Kid Elberfeld
now out with an injury, Lookout
chances have suffered a severe blow.
1t seems strictly two-club race, Vols
and Pels. with the former having all
the best of it at this time.
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FOURTH

Mobile-McDoWell struck out. Schmid
flied to center. Burke flied to Clark NJ
runs, no hits, no errors
Birmingham-Coombs flied to center
Clark out, second to first Meusel out
short to first. No runs, no hits, NJ
errors
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-08-18
Old Building Goes.

Workmen started early We'd
nesday morning tearing down the
historic Abraham building adj
joining the Centennial block on
South Billiard street. The Abra-
ham guiding is a two storystruct-
ure built in 1871 and contains
the first brick ever made in Sill
yer City. The Centennial block
adjoining it was erected in 1879.
Both structures will be s~uperced-
by a modern pressed brick bust
ness block. The Centennial block
will not be demolished until the
portion of the new building oc-
cupying the Abraham building is
completed when Al Dano will
his saloon from the Centen-
NAL building iuto the new struct-
ure. H. S. Gilbert has the con-
tract. Silver City Enterprise.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-08-18
SOCORRO
Big Fire Loss.

The Ozark company's one Of
the largest in the Kelly camp,
was totally destroyed by fire
early Thursday morning. The
fire is supposed to have originated
from the exhaust pipe Of an oil
engine. The loss of the mill and
its contents of valuable machinery
amounted to about $4,000 but
it was we'll insured, according to
report. The company's pay roll
amounted to about $4,000 a
month, so that a result of the
fire and the consequent suspen-
sion of operations a large num-
Der of employees will temporarily
be thrown out of employment. 1t
is announced that a bigger and
mill will be built at once.-Socor-
70. Chieftan.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-08-18
LINCOLN
A New Distinction.

Lincoln county has distinction now
that no other County in New
Mexico can claim. DR.. c.. E.
Price reports three boy babies
born to Mr.. Mrs. T. M. Beckham
living near Alto, on last Saturday
night. The Doctor says that these
trlplets are fine, lusty fellows and
give promise of rapid growth and
natural development in every par
ticular. 1t is said that the Beck
have been married only
three years and have four sons, the
eldest a lite more than a year old.
Their home is likely to be an UNI
usually attractive one for years to
come. Captain Mountaieer.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-08-18
EDDY
Little Girl Lost.

Last Saturday afternoon the
four year old daughter Of Ira
Taylor and wife, who live out on
a ranch near Walnut or in that
vicinity, in some way became Sc
parated from the other children
and wandered all the afternoon
and night, and was found next
lay, Sunday, noon about ten
niles from home. When found
she was close to the ranch house
II Chas. Examiners on Walnut.
The children had gone down in
he pasture to play, and went on
to the house thinking she was
coming; VIXEN they went back to
find her she had gone the opposite
way from home. Her track was
seen one mile from the house, and
she turned and went south, two
miles, it was getting to late to
track her, 50 Mr.. Taylor went
over to the VIII Simmons place
on the Black River getting there
about ten O'Clock. Mr.. Simmons
took his car and went to get help
TO find her, getting Johnnie Reed,
Cecil Cass, and Barney Beech to
helphim hunt the child. T~heyfound
her track, she wore shoes, in the
canyon at the mouth of Walnut
and tracked her close to the Gram
mer home, where she apparently
had stopped to play, and seeing
the house went off another way,
where they found her. She did
not seem excited in the least and
knew her father. Mrs. Taylor
was frantic with grief. When as
ked where she slept she said I'M
Ter a bush. She did not seem
and not very hungry. al ,
hough she walked a long way.-l
Current h
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-08-18
CHAVES
Thought He Was Shot


Charles Whiteman had a thrill
ling experience last evening when
he was about to close the White
man Bros. store for the night,
when two shots rang out in the
silence just as he was in the act
of closing the door. He remem-
bered that a partial drunken
Mexican had sought the wareroOm
OF the store earlier in the after
noon in order to sleep off the eff
fects Of the JOY water, and as the
smoke was coming from this see
tlon of the store he concluded
that the Mexican had turned his
,-rtillery loose on him with a view
70 murder or robbery, or both.
Crouching behind the counter,
Mr.. Whiteman secured the revol-
yer which is kept in the store, and
with considerable stealth made
MS way to the wareroom. He
encountered the Mexican stretch
ed out on the floor with a smok-
lng revolver in his hand. He
concluded that the Mexican had
committed suicide and went out
N the street to hail a police Of
1cer. He attracted the attention
If a passerby and told him that a
Mexican had been shot in his
store, The passerby noticing that
Mr.. Whiteman held a revolver in
MS hand, asked him if he had
I.led the Mexican, Mr.. White
nan said "No' the fellow had ap-
~parently taken his own life. The
NO thereupOn went to the ware
com and discovered that the
Mexican was very much alive
and ready to make his exit from
the store. The drunken fellow
mad evidently awakened from his
>tupor and imagined that he was
n reVoIution-torn Mexico and
started some fireworks from his
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-08-18
Another Robbery.

Monday nlght'during the down.
pour rain, thieves entered the
store of the F'inley-Pratt Hard
ware company and carried off
seven revolvers, two knifes and
$4.05 in cash from the register
which had been left to begin next
days business. Entrance was
gained through the transom over
the door at the rear of the big
store, the thieves breaking the
glass from the outside and drop
ping over, but cutting a hand in
the transaction, as blood was
found on the transom and on the
show cases from which the re-
volyers were taken, and also on
the cash register. The theft was
not discovered until the opening
of the store Tuesday morning. AS
far as known there is no clue to
to the robbers but the officers
are on the hunt, and the chances
are-judging by the past exper-
fence that the thieves will en-
JOY a fancied security for a few
They can't get away from
our sleuths. This is the fourth
robbery in the last thirty days
that Of the Roberts earborne
company, the Leck store and the
saloon all having occur
red in that time, but the officers
nave succeeded in arresting the
perpetrators of all except the
Leck robbery, and the thieves
ire now in jail. Carlsbad Argus.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-08-18
TORRANCE
Well Looks Good.

r. N. Maxwell was in from
the Pedernal country yesterday.
He reportslthat his well i down
about 800 feet. He struck a little
water enough to drill with some
time ago. The past three weeks
he has been in granite, the hard
est he ever struck. 1t took him
twenty days to 90 through twenty
feet of it, but when he got through
with it he struck sandstone, and
the water rose in the we'll about
eighty feet over night. He hasn't
tested the flow yet.-Estancia
Herald.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-08-18
QUAY
New Copper Vein

f. NJ. Christian, who has been
prospecting for ore in the vicinity
Bull Canyon for a number of
years, was rewarded a few days
ago with a successful location of
a vein of copper that is large and
easy at access which will test bet
ter than 16 per cent or as good as
the best in New Mexico. Mr..
Christian was assisting in the
Pintado district where Geo. Muir
ray a mining engineer of sixteen
years experience was working and
he secured his services to assist
in locating the main deposit of
copper from which it was evident
particles in the bottom of the
canyon had washed away from.
Murray accompanied Christian to
the camp at Conant spring where
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-08-18
GRANT


That the IS Mining Company
viii soon begin the erection OF
an re treatment plant at THEN
camp three miles south of Lords
burg the belief of those close
ly ass0 Iated with the company.
A test mill has been established
by the IS Company at the Texas
School of mines Building at Fort
Bliss, Texas. J. w. Crowdus is
in charge of the plant and is
making complete tests of hota-
lions and wet method of treating
the 50 mine ores. Representa-
tlVes of several of the largest
tiotation unit manufacturers and
%patentees have visited the mine
and have gone into the problem
of concentrating the ore. A num-
Der of shipments of ore have been
made to various test plants, and
it is believed that the correct
method of treatment will soon be
solved. L~ordsburgh Liberal.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-08-18
Melon Thefts

Some complaints are being whis
pered around about melon thefts
IN this country lately. 1t is held
that a persistent prosecution of
all cases where sufficient proof is
o%btainable, would tend to lessen
the practice and also teach some
people a more wholesome respect
for other peoples property, A
few worthless scoundrels who
never plant or cultivate, should
not be allowed to feast with i'm
punlty upon the labor of honest
men.-La Lac Cor. Alamogardo
News.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-08-18

he proceeded to!view the surround
ing cliffs and trace the formations
from the bottom of the canyon
to 300 feet up the cliff and while
killing a big rattle snake Murray
glanced up the cliff and to his
amazement a vein of copper was
exposed which it is said two men
with picks could have mined two
or three tons of the substance
within five hours. At the price
of copper today the gross ton as
mined from Bull Canyon would
be worth ~$114.-Tucumcari
News.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-08-18
NEW MEXICO STATE NEWS
m- From Special Correspondents and State Papers

entered a badger hole. Help and
tools were secured and the re-
ptile vas unearthed. 1t proved
to be six inches in length and
had fourteen rattles. Its body
Was no. larger than that of an Or
binary snake of that length ex-
cept in one place, where it was
as large as a mediums sized water
melon, the distented part having
made the broad trail. When cut
open it was found that her snake
ship had swallowed two full
grown jack rabbits-Ft Sumner
Review.