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The Washington times., 1917-06-21
Griffmen Are Leading Browns
Every Other Western Club Has Done Better
With the White Sox Taking Six Out
of Eight Played.
By LOUIS A. BOUCHER.

In their inersectiona battles with the four Western
clubs the Grmen have twelve and lost sixteen games
Three tie have been played two with the Indians here
and with the White Sox in Chicago The Grimen win
ming percentage against the this season 9
The Washington times., 1917-06-21
Payers-NelD Baseball After
Baseball Writers Plan Action
Promise to ''Tear Things Wide Open" Unless the
National League Investigates Charges
Against John J. McGraw.

NEW YORK, June 21.-The troubles of John ]. McGraw
connection with his alleged denuncaton of John K Tener
president of the National League not Sport writer's
whose veracy attacked by Mcaw when he repudaed
interviews they sent to their papers, have declared the
The Washington times., 1917-06-21

Nlns-bOdIe- Bates- IOOch. Milan. RICE.
Morgan. Jameson. Gailia. Left on bases
Philadelphia ?: Washington. Z. First base
on halls-On Schauer. ,: on Shaw. .; OF
GalliA. >. Innings pitched-By Shaw, ! 20;
by Gsllia. ID Hits made-On Shaw, 4: on
Gallia 6. Struck out-By Schauer 3: by
Shaw. /. Two-haEe hIt-Milan. Sacrifice hits
Grover Shanks. Judge Sacrifice hy-Fos-
ter Stolen bases-Grover. Morgan. Double
play-JudEe tunassistedi. Umpirss-AessrE.
Hildebrand ard OLoughIIn. Time OF game
i hour and 81 minutes
The Washington times., 1917-06-21

The defeat of Sam Langford by
pearance of one OF the few heavy
weights Jack johnson would never
meet in the ring. For years Lang
ford trAiled johnson, hoping for a
match. only TO be turned down. Now
Langford is fat and slow, and no
match for the younger men coming
TO the front. He displayed great
gameness in Boston. being sent to the
mat while boring into his taller and
quicker antagonist, but as a serious
contender for any ring honors, Lang
ford is done
The Washington times., 1917-06-21

Amos Strunk showed brains when
he made the putout on Jameson in
the eighth. No one else was avail
able. and so Amos did 1t himself.
The Washington times., 1917-06-21

Ping Bodie looks to be in excellent
physical condition. something IN
heard Of when he was with the White
Sox
The Washington times., 1917-06-21

Doc ayers won his daily contest
in right Geld The HillsvilIe noun
tsineer has now won ffty.four and
lost none in the bullpen carnage.
The Washington times., 1917-06-21

The fans gave the Griffmen all the
encouragement they needed from first
10 last. They demanded the release
OF Shaw, and when that came. they
got right behind Gallia and stayed
there.
The Washington times., 1917-06-21
REACH BASEBALL FINALS
Industrial and Henry-PoIk In Play
ground little Games.

Industrial Home School and Henry
Polk School will clash in a series of
three games for the baseball cham
pionship OF the graded schools Of the
District, beginning SATURDAY..
These two teams Of valiant young
sters fought their way to the finals
in the elimination series conducted
by the playground department. in
which nearly every graded school in
the city was represented.
Industrial Home, OF the Georgetown
playground, won the championship of
the western section OF the series. and
HenryPolk. the New York avenue
representative. won in the eastern
section.
Wins In Twelve Frames.
A , to victory over Buchanan in
twelve innings yesterday gave Henry
Polk the eastern title. anil Industrial
defeated Bradley to 3 for the west
ern honors La Jacone pitched for
Henry Polk, and Sickle caught. Caller
and Lowry were the Buchanan bat
terry. An overthrow to second by
Catcher Lowry permitted GreenberR
to score the winning run in the
twelfth. session.
Cherry and Albert formed Indus
trials winning battery. and LAcock
and Trump worked for Bradley.
Gage FOrfeItE Game.
Gage forfeited to Monroe In another
western section game
Industrial and Henry Polk will play
the first game Of the title series
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock on the
tiallinger field at Eighteenth and ID
streets northwest. and the other two
will be contested Monday and Tues
day, on the same groundA-
The Washington times., 1917-06-21

Clarence Rowland, manager OF the
\. Iite SoX, says that the final Skin
mish for the American League PEN
nant will be between his club and
the present champions, the Boston
Red Sox. 1t doesn't pay for q mana
ger to issue such statements at this
time. They frequently rise up and
smite him when the curtain is drawn
on the campaign. However, Row
lands club today is the only one be-
sides the Red Sox that looks to have a
chance.
The Washington times., 1917-06-21

With Shsnks and Jameson and
Morgan all yelling at once. the fans
welcomed the additional pep"
The Washington times., 1917-06-21
eRIFFmEN CHATTER.
Two more with the Mackmen

Tomorrow is Red Cross day a:
American League Park.
The Washington times., 1917-06-21

The curtains have disappeared from
the right field fence
The Washington times., 1917-06-21

Those pests. Hildebrand and
OIoughlin, are here again.
The Washington times., 1917-06-21

For the Accommodation Of Our Customers Our
VIII Be Open Saturday Evening Until 10 O'clock
The Washington times., 1917-06-21
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.

American League.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-14
FA WI TAN AMATEUR BUGLER
FIatdweIler Prefers Distressing Noise
Made by cornet .Tooter to Man
s5 III Who Wells HMurder' In Sleep.

eve lived once" said Mr.. Flatdwell-
er, Tin the same house with an anna
teur cornet player; and we thought
then that if we ever got out Of that
house we should be happy. It didn't
seem as If we could ever have, in any
other place, SO distressful neigh
Dor. .-.5 2s$3t VIII IT. % A.
"But in this house that we have
lately moved into we heard the first
night we were here the cry OF
Murder! Murderv
.5 "We sat up in horror; listening and
wondering what we ought to do; but
the next moment we heard a female
voice saying: 4. ,@s -.
" "'Edward! Edward! Wake up!
Mercy! What's the 1natterT 4. <,..y
"And then we heard, in mans
voice:z KIDD G. .#
"My gracious! I'm glad that
wasn't true 4 Il. ~ Z. ." #~'" .r@.'
"This was great relief to: us, OF
course, as no doubt 1t was to Ed
ward; but then, as we pulled the bed
clothes up again and our head
touched the pillow, we reflected that
the novice struggling with a cornet
had once seemed the worst thing that
could happen to us but now we knew
better. AS between him and a neigh
Dor prone to a nightmare, give us, on
give us, every time, the amateur
bugler."
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-14
Amphltheater Walls Intact.

Pola, the fortified Austrian naval
center recently bombed by italian avia-
tors, contains the finest Of the old Ro-
man amphitheaters. When Pola was
a Venetian colony, in the middle ages,
the amphitheater lost its tiers of seats,
capable Of accommodating 10000 spec.
tators. They were totally destroyed
by the Venotians, who used the stones
for building their own palaces. They
respected the interior, however, for
this is the only Roman amphitheater
whose outer walls are entirely intact.
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30

Washir Machinery for enroll
ing an army of G25,0G0 men by select
i've draft will be completed in every
detail by July /, two months before
the tentative date considered for call
ing the first of the troops to the colors.
Regulations for the exemption process
will be made public shortly.
Officials have not disclosed the plan
to be followed, but the machinery for
the exemption boards, both local and
review, can be put into operation On
July l, it is stated.
BrigaGier General Crowder, who
worked out the plans for both regis
tration and selection. foresees no more
complication with the selection and
exemption machinery than was expert
enced with registration. Secretary
Baker and his advisers repeatedly
have given assurances that the selec-
ton system will be so fair that there
would be no ground for fears that any
man will be favored by reason of
political or other relations. IN order
that neighborEood knowledge of a
mans work and his dependents might
aid in the task of sending TO the front
men who can he spared at home. the
country undoubtedly Will be highly
subdivided, and tho exemption dis
tricts be small
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
.U-bOAT SUNK BY
AMERICAN GUNNERS
CAPTAIN and Crew Give Details
of The Fight.
TWO SHELLS STRIKE ENEMY
Torpedo Denied Side Of American
Vessel and Tore Away Propeller
Blade, But Failed To Ex-
pIcde and Sink Her.

story of sea fight under modern
conditions which thrills to a degree
which no fictional tale of battle with
blcodthirsty pirates of the Spanish
Main could ever achieve was told in
Baltimore by the members of the crew
of the American steamship Norlina.
The Norlina entered an American
port recently after perilous journey
across the Atlantic from port on the
British west coast, during which she
was hit by a torpedo, which failed to
explode and in turn twice struck the
attacking German submersible with
shells and apparently sent her to the
bottom, never again to rise.
A wireless message was received by
the Norlina during the trip from one
British vessel that had been torpedoed
and which is believed to have gone
down. Two other British vessels were
seen in battles with submarines. In
each of these cases the men of the
Norlina watched the shells from the
around the attacking submersibles
until the latter returned without, for
the time at least, getting their intend
ed prey.
When the Norlina was attacked a
torpedo, launched from the modern
pirate, hit the American ship fairly
amidships. The missile failed to ex-
plode, and after the captain had as
sured himself of that fact, he recalled
the men who had been sent away in
the lifeboats as the torpedo struck,
and turned loose his fore and aft
suns, manned by gunners OF the
United States Navy, and put up fight
with the U-boat which will so down
into naval history of the great war as
one of the most gallant of actions
fought by. merchant steamship
against a superior and treacherous foe.
Probably Destroyed.
The battle ended with the U-boat's
periscope smashed and two hits regis
tered fairly on her superstructure,
with possibly a third hit recorded. She
submerged hastily, leaving behind her
a trail of wreckage and cloud of blue
smoke That the steamers guns sank
the submarine is the firm belief of
every man on board, and the belief is
supported by the fact that, although
the U-boal had submerged of her own
intent twice previously and reappear-
ed, the third time she went down she
went down for good and was not again
seen on the surface.
This, briefly, is the story. In its
details it stands out as one of the
most spectacular incidents of the bat
tie which RACES day and night, with
cut ceasing, all over l;.e surface of the
Atlantic Ocean between American and
Allied merchant ships and the sub
marines of Germany.
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
Machinery for Enrolling Big
Army Complete BY July |.
EXEMPTION REGULATIONS
Brigadier-GeneraI CroWder Foresees
No More Complication Than
Was Experienced With
Registration.
e,649,e3s MEN ENROLL FOR
COUNTRY'S SERVICE.

Washington.-War registration
returns, virtually completed by re-
ports from Wyoming and Ken
lucky, show e,64e, e3s n;en between
the ages OF twenty-one and thirty
years, inclusive, have been enroll
ed for the country's service.
In addition to the regularly tabu-
lated total, 6,oo1 Indians were en-
rolled by State officials, or on
reservations by Interior Depart
ment agents.
Counting the 600: 1850 or more
men in the Federal service and not
required to register, the provost
marshal-generai's office said the
Census Bureau estimate Of 10,275,-
GOA eIigibies was approximately
correct, and that few siackers are
to be sought.
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
SERIOUS FOURTH SUGGESTED.
People OF Country Asked To Reflect
On Gravity Of War.

Washington.-A plea that "Inde-
pendence Day be observed this year
with solemnity rejecting the sober
determination of a democracy at war
for it's ideals and its existence" was
made in a statement issued by the
public information committee.
Noise and useless illumination and
unthinking celebration have no proper
place in times such as these" said
the statement. Let there be a re-
turn to those ceremonies and adj
dresses which prevailed in other days.
Every organization should cooperate
to make it such a celebration as will
carry to every home and every ele-
ment among our people the gravity of
issues that strike to the very root of
the nation born 141 years ago and
dedicated to freedom"
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
BATTLE FIERcER IN TYROL.
Italian and Austrian Guns Shake En-
tire Mountain Range.

Amsterdam-The Cologne Gazette's
correspondent en- the Tyrolean front
Communi Plateau has assumed
extraordinary dimensions. Drumfire
continued the whole night, reaching
such violence in the morning that the
mountains in all Southern Tyrol re-
echoed The battle, says the CORE
spondent, extends along the entire
front from the Sugana Valley to
Asiago
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
HOUSE PASSES
DRY FOOD BILL
Prohibition Section Goes in at
Last Minute.
NO FOODSTyFFs FOR LIQUOR
Measure Would Empower President
To Take Over, For War Pur-
poses, All Liquor Now
On Hand.

WASHINGTON. = The administrator
Food Control Bill, giving the President
broad authority to control the dlstrlpu-
ton of food, feed and fuel for war pur-
poses and appropriating $l52,o00,ooo
for it's enforcement and admln!stEa-
ton, was passed by the House after
far-reaching prohibition provisions had
been written into it.
The vote was 365 to 5. Representa-
tives McLemore, Slayden and Young
of Texas, Democrats, and Meeker, Mis-
souri,, and Ward, New York, Repubii-
cans, voting in the negative.
The prohibition provisions adopted
would prohibit the use of foodstuhs
for the manufacture Of alcoholic
beverages and give the President au-
thority to take over for war purposes
all liquor now on hand. They were
put into the measure in committee OF
the whole. and when the bill came up
in the House proper the anti-prohibl-
ton faction did not demand that they
be voted on again.
The bill now goes to the Senate,
where it probably will be substituted
for a similar measure already under
consideration. Leaders hope to get
the measure to conference by July l.
Few important changes were made
by the House outside the prohibition
section. The control powers of the
President were limited to articles
especially mentioned in the bill instead
of giving him blanket authority; vol
untary aids in control work were made
subject to the penal provision; all per-
sons in the food administration except
those serving without compensation
were placed under civil service and
the President was required to make
annual report on the operation of the
bill.
1t is expected that a fight will be
made on the prohibition section of the
bill in the Senate, although much pro-
hibition sentiment has been apparent
there and equally far-reaching amend
ments are pending.
The amendment designed to cut off
manufacture of liquors was adopted
1872 to ia. 1t was submitted by Rep
resentative Barley, Of Kentucky,
Democrat, and would provide that no
food, food material or feed could be
used during the war for the manufac-
ture of alcohol or alcoholic beverages
except for governmental, industrial,
scientific, medicinal or sacramento
purposes.
On the amendment authorizing gov
eminent use OF distilled spirits there
was no roll call and only few scat
tered nays were heard on the viva
voce vote. Originally proposed by
Representative Webb, of North Caro-
lima, it was accepted by Chairman
Lever, of the Agricultural bill, and
was adopted on his motion.
Debate Was Warm.
There was a hot debate over the
prohibition features Vets and drys
accused each other of unfairness and
Representative Meeker, of Missouri,
Republican. and Representative Kelly,
of PENNSYLVANIA, Democrat, got into
such a row that their friends sur
rounded them to prevent a physical
encounter and then had the words
they exchanged stricken from the
record.
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30

gets for artillery, whereas fixed
trenches can easily be photographed
from airplanes and the heavy guns can
almost at once be registered on them
without any great difficulty.
The Germans in the last few days
of fighting have shown particular de-
sire to cling to the shell holes as long
as possible before retiring to their
fixed lines in the rear. This is quite
change from their ordinary habits,
for heretofore they have loved their
deep dugouts in the trenches with
love that seldom brooks separation.
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30

ing carried on day and night between
large bodies of opposing troops lying
out in the shell holes.
Some of these holes blown by heavy
calibered guns, are really enormous
craters, in which twoscore of men can
establish and fortify themselves.
Shell holes lend themselves to quick
conversion into machinegun emplace-
ments, and those CHASTITY weapons form
the chief means Of defense.
The offensive weapons in shell-hole
warfare generally are hand grenades.
Shell holes naturally are not easy tar
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
Planning Great Air Army.
MAKE USE OF SHELL HOLES
Soldiers Abandon Trench Lines for
Shelter That Cannot Easily Be Dis
cerned by the Enemy.

British Headquarters in France
The western front nowadays is marked
by many changing phases. East of
the bloody Monchy lie Preux, on the Ar
ras battlefield, and west of Warneton,
on the Messines battlefield, trench lines
have been forsaken and fighting is be-
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
WILSON BACKS AIRCRAFT BILL.
Measure Carrying 5000, 100000 Will Be
Introduced Next Week.

Washington.-Approval has been
given the Defense Councils aircraft
bill by President Wilson and it will be
introduced in Congress this week. 1t
will provide an initial appropriation o.
$500. 100000 and the program calls for
construction within year of between
$4,000 and 10000 airplanes.
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
SMALL SUBSCRIBERS FIRST.
To Receive Full Amount Of Liberty
Loan Bonds.

WASHINGTON. - Treasury officials
have reached a tentative decision that
all subscribers to the Liberty bond Of
fering in amounts of $4,000 or less
shall receive their full subscriptions.
Any reduction necessary because Of
the over-subscription will come on
higher amounts Revised unofficial
estimates as to the total subscriptions
today placed the figures at approx
imately $2,S25, 100000.
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
SHIPPING ROW LASTS.
President Authorizes Denial Of Den
man-GoethaIs Settlement.

Washington.-Pres Wilson au-
thorized Secretary Tumulty to say that
the President has not already settled
the difficulties between Chairman Den
man. CT the Shipping Board. and Gen
eral Goethals, of the Emergency Fleet
Corporation, over the wooden ship
building program. The President, M
Tu.uulty said, was waiting for furthe,
information, which he expects to OF
tain in a few days.
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
EXPLOSION SHAKES HAVANA.
Magazine Blows Up n Fort-Onc
Known Dea1.

Havana-An explosion IN the maya
zine of Cabanas fortress across the
bay from Havana shook the entire
city. One person is known to dead
and many were injured. 1t is believed
a bomb was exploded.
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
TO INQUIRE INTO COAL COST.
Senate Committee VIII Also Take Up
Various. Metals.

ashirgton.-lnCuiry into rroduc-
ton, prices and trans po-taticn Of coal,
steel, copper and other basic materials
over which Government supervision
may be proposed during the war was
decided upon by the Senate Interstate
the first subjec: taken Up this week.
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
U. S. FLEET ON DUTY.
Admiral Caperton Arrives In Brazilian
Waters With Squadron.

Rio Janeiro-Rear-Adm William
B. Caperton, commander-in-chief of the
Pacific fleet of the United States Navy,
and the members of his staff have been
received with honors here. The
American officers visited the Minister
of Marine under the escort of a Brazil
ian naval battalion. The exercises
included the playing of the national
hymns of the two nations.
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
FISH TRUST ALLEGED.
Government Goes After New EnoIand
Companies.

notwithstanding aimed at al
troll of the fish industry were brought
by the federal government under the
Sherman Act against the Boston Fish
Pier Company, the New England Fish
Exchange, the Bay State Fishing Com
pany, the Boston Fish Market Cor
poration and the Commonwealth Ice
and Storage Company.
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
EGGS IN STORAGE INCREASE.
5,23e,ee5 Cases Reported In 264
Houses On June IS.

Washington.-For the first time in
months, holdings of eggs in cold stor-
age plants are greater than at the cor
responding season of last year. Agri-
culture Departments reports for June
Is, showed that 264 storage houses
had 5.239,9S5 cases in storage, compar-
ed to 5,151,42 year ago. Butter
holdings on June Is were 17.3 per
cent. less than on that date last year.
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
OUR FLYERS IN FRANCE.
Fifty American Aviators Welcomed BY
the French.

Nice, France.-Fifty American avia-
tors arrived here to undergo a course
of instruction at the seaplane depot.
They were given the heartiest of well
comes by their French comrades.
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
U. S. PLEDGED TO RUSSIA.
Will Fight Till World Is Safe For
Democracy.

Petrograd. = Declaring that the
United States was going to fight until
the world was made safe for democ-
racy, Elihu Root, head of the American
mission, made his first public appear
ance here. Mr.. Root spoke to large
and enthusiastic Russian audience,
gathered under the auspices of the
Russian-American Committee for H.
dustrial and Economic Rapproche-
ment, recently organized.
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
FORESTRY CHIEF IN PARIS.
Major Graves Will Work To Conserve
French Forests.

Paris.-Among the latest reinforce
ments to the American military mis-
sion is Major Harry Scion Graves,
Chief Forester of the United States,
who was commissioned a major in the
reserves when he volunteered to in
vestigate forestry conditions in
France
Middletown transcript., 1917-06-30
S50o,ooo AMBULANCE GIFT.
Ford Motor Company Makes Donation
To Red Cross.

Detroit-Five hundl ed thousand dol
lars worth of Ford amhulances will
be given to the Red Cross. This de
cision was reached at meeting Of the
board of directors Of the Ford Motor
Company