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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28
BODIE HIT .538
FOR NINE GAMES
He Faced Pitcher 80 Times
and Hit the Ball Safely
81 Times
STANDING OF LEADERS

Roush and Cobb seem safely intrenched
in the lead for batting honors of the two
ma jor leagues and there is very little doubt
that they will keep their lead until the sea-
son is over. one of the interesting features
OF the batting race in tho National is that
two of the St Louis team, which is a rather
bad third in the race, rank among the five
best batsmen Cincinnati, which is fourth,
has two representatives while the Phillies
have not player in the first five.
Ping Bodio hit safely in nine straight
games and during this streak he had an
average Of .53S. out of thirty-nne times
at the bat he made twenty-one hits. which
is some hitting. Roush has hit in ten con-
secutive games for an average of .412, MAX
ing fourteen hits out of thirty-four tries.
The standing of the five best battcrs in
each league follows:
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In the spotlight--Max Carey. The leading
the rhllies cut New YorlS's lead to eight games
by scoring on a double steal with BoecSeE Bill
Rariden pegged to Herzog and caught Boeckcl,
but Carey continued to the plate with the run
that won tho game.
Pat Moran's PhilHes might be called "the
menace
Note that the Browns won the $500 prize for
being the best soldiers in the American League.
However, the Browns can't drill their way to
pcnnant
Babe Ruth is big enough to lick any single
player in the American League. But Cobb
and Neach have something on him.
Rcd Smith kicked a game. away for the
reading the football rules.
Bill Donovan gets new Job every day. On.
day he is fired by Colonel Rupert and tho mex,
day he Is hired back again.
1t begins to look more and more as though
Clarence Is going to win the American eIag,e
pennant. Cicotte and Faber managed to blank
the Yankees.
Roth. Harris and Wambsganns pulled off a
triple steal against Washington, but the Inda ms
made only nine runs and lost the game.
Old Jack Coombs entertained the Cubs at
Brooklyn. He showed them 30 many tricks
with a baseball that they forgot to win.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28
SIX RIDERS WILL RACE
IN BIG FIFTY-MILE EVENT
Two Expert Pacemakers From Boston
Will Be Among Entries
Thursday

Big preparations are being made by the
management of the Point Breeze Motor
drome to stage the bike classic OF the
present racing season on Thursday night,
when the 1917 championship motor-paced
race will be run. The distance will be
fifty miles or 100 laps.
Six riders. all stars. will face the starter
and the pacemakers are so equally matched
that the race should prove an even battle.
Two of the best pacemakers from Revere
Beach track. in Boston. will be imported
here for this race, and It will be interest
ing to see II Jimmy Hunter can show his
usual skill and prowess against such men
as Stein and NORM.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28

HNIIE chap who leaves a burning cigarette
l. on your baby grand or who drops cigar
ashes on your best rug is not bit worse
than a lot of fellows who are playing golf
Last year the dinner tournament of the
Golf Association was held at the Hunting
don Valley Country and the Philmont Coun-
try Clubs. There were about 900 players on
both courses, and what some of them did
to the fairways was caution. As MEM
ber of the Huntington Valley green COM
mittee said afterward: "Our fairways looked
as IL II had been tho annual handicap OF
the gravcdiggers association. That crowd
did more damage to our turf than our MEM
bcrs did in a year. 1t will be n long time
before there is another dinner match played
here"
One OF the interesting exhibits in the
iockerhouse of the Whitemarsh valley
Country Club is photograph of what some
of the club grayediggers did to the course.
1t is just bit of fairway. but the holes
made by the players and the cut turf are
plainly visible. Nowadays most players
take the turf in making iron shots. The
real player takes the turf just after he
hits the ball. The average player takes
it both before and afterward.
Take Divots, but Replace Them
There is not club in the country that
objects to turf taking, but when the players
forget to replace the divots the clubs stand
on their hind legs and howl and no one
blames them. No one likes to play out of
cuppy lie. The shot is not the easiest
in the world to play. The real punish
ment would be to give the gravediggers
cuppy lies all the time, but usually the
ones who suffer are those who take the time
and trouble TO put the cut turf back
Winthrop Sargent has been the very ef-
fcent chairman of the green committee of
the Merton Cricket Club for number of
years, and no other chairman is more
painstaking or devotes more time to his
work than Mr.. Sargent Merton Is always
in the very best possible condition. But
lot of the members were careless and when
they opened a new golf ball they would
toss the paper away, throw empty ciga-
rette boxes in the farway and in putting
would drop lighted cigarettes on the greens
and in many cases would let them lie there,
greatly to the injury of the green's.
SO Mr. Sargent got up a peppery notice
and reminded the golfers that the club was
spending thousands of dollars on the course,
and this matter of using the course as "a
wastebasket for everything under the sun
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Shorts on Sports

sSss the WIN yGaps syssf
Scn Ter h% 6shaa IL s g. Sss e. f.d S
retiring for & pinch hitter all the runs scored
until eighth inning. therefore Mayer % secured p1SG
from Ind!anapolis, Ind won two championships
az the sRors 'T caS
G the Ssn aosa1S es Oysr sysn
fsrrs for yTs cyassy III sas pns as eSs,S
and the oyard soafss IL s sxsn' in i0i aS
tho ss scd II SSrp " BY
Esa sst q r. points IL wSiss the
sSdsuEdsy Mff had twelve points
speed was SOL miles per hour
RPh .bs de the Is Ssys
Chicago Speedway on Labor Day
ss RUs ssna
ers, pitcher OF the Kansas City club.
souri,: has eonarmed the report that he win not
S%Pfse Sed m ST. r. Hs ous ss a bart r. q ss to Se
simpson enrolled as a. student officer at Fort
Sheridan yesterday.
W M. sammond. of this city. won the weekly
trapshooting tournament held on the Million
Dollar Pier. Atlantic City. yesterday. by smash
ing fifty targets straight.
Secretary Leon Benedette. of the Southern
A. A. u, has announced that his district viii
not be represented In the national championships
to be held the latter part Of this week in Sd.
Louis -
IN. ,ssAI:tss yho VII. yssss.sn. u. German.
-, X q 1ei3s1 n l''': i'a's's's' 81
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28
NORRIS WILLIAMS HAS PLAYED HIS
LAST GAME IN ANY TENNIS TOURNEY
UNTIL GREAT WAR ABROAD IS OVER
Three Years Ago He Faced Wilding in the Last of
the Davis Cup Series-Wilding Is Dead,
Mclaughlin Is Passing
By GRANTLAND RICE
Chant of the Second Division Bug

Come on, you grand old Winter League;
Rdus NIT this fagging summer season,
T EnoagI 'G 70 sap sap a teyop,os p sOyso; rcGson.
Beyond the borders of the rose,
Oh, bring again the old Stores inning,
When vdljdntIy across the snoWs
orr gallant ball Glib starts to trimming.
Come on, oh gallant Winter Time,
When "Mogul Smith predicts a pcnndnt,"
When from the cellar depths ne climb,
And first place f,,ds as there a tenant;
A tenant on the topmost hW
Where every dub becomes hummer
Through March and prH, on untN
We hit the chutes again neat Summer.
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Three Years


i v,ui,,,s fo,,,a ,,i,,so,s ,,o,,,o .n,,or,,
u,;,.,,,, =, -, = a., .,,., ,,...,.a
"''u'"e III VIC 'a9' VI ''i' avs cup ''iie
the last, at least, until peace comes back
War had just peen declared, and wildlng
knew then il was only a matter of days
until he started for the front
With the yastness of the wars first i'm
petus there NAV have come TO Williams
even then the thought that he too. might
some dav be called upon to surrender the
racquet for the gun. or perhaps it never
occurred TO him that his country would be
'arrgu TI'i ILL., ,,o,.s ho,,o h-o,,,,t obout mara
than n trIae in the way of change, Wilding
las ma ssed on to the Far country and Will
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28
BESSIE RYAN STARS
Philadelphian's Impressive Showing at
Wheeling Elates Local Fans

Philadelphia natatorial followers are
elated with tho impressive showing made
by local mermalds in the Amateur Athletic
Union meet held on Saturday at Wheeling,
w. Va. Miss Bessie Ryan, of the First
Regiment Swimming Pool, of this city. was
the star OF the meet, as she captured the
l00-yard dash, defeating Miss Elizabeth
Becker. of the philadelphia Turngemeine.
burgh and Wheeling. Miss Ryan also won
the 200-yard handicap and was placed third
In the 1O0-yard handicap. In the latter
event she started from scratch.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Carey to Meet Doyle at Cambria

The Cambria A. c. has secured Tommy
,vind-up this Friday evening. Danny
Hughes and Tommy German will meet in
the semifnal The rest of the show fol.
lows: Jack McDermott and Walter Brown
Johnny Bradley and Young Tierney and Joe
Wright and Young Davidson.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28
Grand Circuit at POughkeepsie

PoUGHKEEPslE. n. Y, Aug 2s.-rhis
citys Grand Circuit race meeting will open 10.
day at the Hudson River Driving Park. Owing
to the fact that several of the late closing
events failed to fill. the meeting was cut down
to three days.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28

best tennis player America has ever pro-
duced, Larned, Mclaughlin or Willams?"
You can see, off hand, how easy il is TO
outline an answer here
The Dohertys always said that Malcolm
Whitman was the best man they mad cyer
faced
BIZ Larned won the championship seven
times smashing all records
Mclaughlin within one wcel, heat Nor
man Brooks and Anthony wildlnr tho
greatest single achievement in American
lawn tennis history.
Any number OF tennis players have told
US that William Johnston knew a greater
variety OF strokes than any other entry
from this side of the water
And Norris Williams has beaten hath Nc
Loughin and Johnston in champi,nshIp
finals. '''''''p
Make your own pick
The Essential Ingredient
"Nlatty has his Reds hustling" We have
seen inns line more than once here latelv-
ana 1t is the answer to managerial success
IL Is the answer to why Matty has lifted a
ciuD from last place in 1916 to the frs,
division in 1917.
You hear quite trihe about strategy
tactics and the like. These things count
But the essential ingredient for managerial
success Is ability to keep a ball club nus.
tling.
For this requires not only the liking, but
tho respect of the players. 1t means the
arousing of ambition and the development of
team morale. Which is So per cent of
managerial fitness. And Matty has pretty
well proved that he has the ingredient re-
quired.
Any number of changes occur from year
to year in all-American selections, but Cobb
Speaker. Collins and Alexander stay fixed
The four have remained immovable for the
last six years. And it's the long trail that
counts
Wars Box Score
Whcn over the top they 0o-tdciny the hos
tile rodr--
Only the call of the roll nert day can otue
the final score.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28

BERT NIEHOFF0S BRILLIANT WORK
Ri AT BAT SINCE HIS "COMEBACK"
h CLINCHES BENCH JOB FOR EVERS
|Moran's Second Baseman Has Average of .433
Hitting Safely in Last Seven Games, and Has
y Helped Much in Phils' Winning Streak


~ the Cubs the Phlhes Evers was
Phil nd Johnny
His hedns
BIZ
in
remainder
hgh-cass
will be content with
q o decorator.
eight since
against the
e failed hit safely his but starting with the second
collect bne In his last seven
times bat for average OF 4S
the series against
robbed Mann pulling down certain double
beachers
sphere about to sail over the rail- His
Thes
tiumphs.
worlds
hitter three within
sent
victory
On
seventh
held
down a single
N of
n but his
Bender
in
Reds and saved
yesterday relieved
he
worked
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28
SeibOId Pitches Macks to Victory

TJARRY outhede honest
the
yesterday against the St Louis Browns Harry
With the aid of splendid
banked
onyfo bu banged outs
which
Is
baers
~ In
Pratt.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28
Who VIII Be Worlds Series Hero This Year?

outstanding hero Some player always looms
by
men haveta taken rms in
Of whow
baterymant probable
De a s
brilliant would logical pitchers Giants
o
mainstay Yoks pitching
s ~ a HI
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28

- the Cleveland Indians n lo1G This was
sss'ss' r. ,t:'S2s'ss1 S':s - 'sssz * = Fs'''e''s -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28
Bingles and Bungles
The Pirate Pest

There Is Doun1 Pirate named Mar,
Who runs hko deer oil the sdT:
When he Dets OF base
There's a marathon race,
For he rcvcT stands StiN in his trdr.
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in
adf
his
a
May the most notable of
he the
in
a of
In
q is the
- a veterana among
81 cdediy
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Rube BressEer "Iron Man. in Minors


Of
led Of the fifteen innings
{6ooed Eddie Plank.
the
IL the to
+
6rnnb eccasons q hitter and
<{1@ <1re IFarMqg
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28

Secretary Leon Benedetto, of the Southern
a.. 4. ". has announced that his district will
not be represented In the national championshipe
to be held the latter part Of this week in 81.
Louis. -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28

Robert NJ. Simpson, of the University Of Mis-
compete in the national A. A. u. games TO b
held In st. Louis the latter part OF this week
Sheridan yesterday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28

Ralph de Palma, the italian driver. has or
tered the three auto races to be held on IN
Chicago Speedway on Labor Day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28

W NJ Sammond. OF this city. won the weekly
trapshooting tournament held on the Million
Dollar Pier. Atlantic City. yesterday. by smash
ing nifty targets straight.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28

President Barney Dreyfuss. of the Pittsburgh
club, has announced the purchase OF Roy Sand
ers, pitcher OF the Kansas City club.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28
A Pick Out of Range

Here is one of the simple, easy q
that come in a days mail: who
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-17
NQNEfSylO6So EdWf6
YOU CANNOT BUY A REPUTATION

.I.,. 81. not
was beauty and was
% sn0g sss to satisfy s s. uS of ,n
perfect Yacht il was to have
and hnR the most beautiful in
BOAT ' Dont s think you
@ week end and we could all go far
81 would ss all things but afraid could
o been so to but Dick has had
be glad if he had to outside home again
Have you never been abroad MargieY"
Dick went twice before we were married. but he has
Il always regret that steep
the temperament yours may
pathway sky wondering
s ss sa to
Idly may skim over the wery Venice to the
such lover beauty and be filled with
had letter iron Mary this morning They
@
am very , fond a Mary and to be with her in her Italian
Malcolm looking
in nfe Margie find able the thing
aa s@d ss1s
mo, actually extremely selfish You probably
se catastrophe my you
been what the world would call esnsuast But
Mare have had real pasuet has all been only dis
money attracted both women who
friendship Doctor Viro
the whole existence when able
other people call disnteresed friends.
certainly Molle Chad and Eliene
All of them have heard wonderful things
about you"
Yes my GIRL they not friends like
Virot They don't know do Why, Marge
taking confidence
standard.
hmae whose hand against and whom
everyone is against"
that anyone anything
things about and has
started the chldren's hospital"
he with bitter SMILE you buy the
approval willing the price,
Be Continued.)
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were led by Mrs. John Schoeppler.
Mrs. Jesse Prater told of the needs
of the White Shield Home. Papers
were read by Mrs. Hudson, county
superintendent of Red Letter day.
and Mrs. Mucklerm, county press
superintendent. The union will
give a Frances Willard memorial
program on the evening of March
2 at the home of Mrs. A. H. Brix,
SAG South State street. The pub
lie Is invited.
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ANSWERS e eyM GREY

or else you will have to forget IL.
A possible third road might open
to you II you have the ingenuity
to discover for yourself how he
makes or gets the money.
There Is little doubt that you
are an "easy mark" Many women
are either Over-strict or too LEM
lent in financial matters. To strike
a happy medium is one of the keys
to successful matrimony.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-17
A raw, SORE THROAT
Eases Quickly When You Apply
a Little Musterole

And Musterole won't blister like
the old-fashioned mustard plaster.
Just spread it on with your fingers.
1t penetrates to the sore spot with a
gentle Jingle, loosens the congestion
and draws out the soreness and pain.
Musterole is clean, white ointment
made with oil of mustard. 1t is fine
for quick relief for sore throat, bron-
chitis, tonsilitis, stiff neck, asthma,
neuralgia, headache, congestion, pleu-
risy, rheumatism, ltimbago, pains and
aches of the back or joints, sprains,
sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frost
ed feet, colds on the chest Git often
prevents pneumonia). Nothing like
Musterole for croupy children.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-17

Q.-Perhaps you can help
me out on a problem / have
been unable to solve in IA
years of matrimony.
l have a dear, good hus-
band with one exception, and
this is, he will not confide in
me as l do in him, and of all
things, this makes me most
unhappy He always has
money / can't account for.
Now, Cynthia Grey, If I had
money could not give ac-
count Of, as to where it came
from, how long would he be
content with me?
l gave him a much-wanted
beautiful gift at Christmas
time, and he knows where
every dollar came from that
purchased it. He gave me a
very nice present, and as he
gives me all of his money he
earns, or is supposed to,
asked him where he got the
price. He said, ooh, never
mind"
That doesn't suit me. Far
rather a contented mind than
all the jewels on earth. He
and | should be one. He has
always had finance affairs /
couldn't account for and it
gets my goat. I don't care
for him to have secrets from
me, as I am his honest pal.
One time / remember he
asked me for the last dime on
earth l had. I gave it to him
just before bedtime, as he
claimed he needed it on the
next day. AS he sat on the
bed and pulled his shirt over
his head, out from the shirt
pocket rolled a roll of bills.
This makes me most unhappy,
as I have saved in every way
possible for him. Am l an
easy mark, or the biggest
boob In town?
PEEVED WIFE.
A.-Of course, this must b
most unsatisfactory. Sometime
when men give all their money &
their wives and their wives dol
put stingy allowance for then
the men get weary and pine 70
the days when they earned an
spent as they pleased, without sic
DIT hindrance." Then, IL is tina
such men manipulate the finance
70 that they can keep a little 70
unbeknownst to care
ful wiley.
The favorite scheme Is to get
raise and not give out the infor
ut homo. Maybe IL Is onI
! couple of dollars q week, an
maybe It II moro.
OF course. ! cannot tell, merel
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having your letter to work upon,
whether your husband belongs In
this category or not. II he posi-
lively refuses to account for this
extra money, you have but two
roads open. You must either
plainly state to him that it will
be necessary to explain how he
gets this money, and IL he does
not, then you will feel IL neces-
sary to part company with him,
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Why the Secrecy?

did
tday
club the Anti Tuberculosis and the
called to make recommendations the of the
What sanaom?
possible The county
sd let what might be said in that meeting be known.
Father Why they afraid?
subject That question and child Pierce county
Sonally intimately
Are conditions bad the sniom that word of them
leak ot Have politics played inexuaby
institution
that they people know exactly
gk Are the the pubcspirted
trying find something about the matter bitter
that to them
gentlemen afraid allow reporters
the TIL when the m is discussed?
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TURN TO THE CLASSIFIED
WANT ADS ON PAGE FOR
RESULTS. SEE PAGE SEVEN.
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Watch for our next great fiction
treat. 1.-THE Story of Julia Page"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-17
LaWrenCe'S ACuuittal

a. .no rfends of John c.
lava THE eastern part Of the state pleased to that
""pdence
omitted him Spokane
Linco in operations the Northwest
Of lawrence has been a public a
OF the railroad commission the
oqlisson, he has
Trnble, ~ ~ ~ " " ppu
the
ples Kaiser says that Germany will obtain peace by
~ ord, but he doesn't specify whose sword.
discussed ae lphia North American
Of "
Latter esdent Wilson says he is opposed to compulsory
Rary service. Now If he will only rid us of compui-
PSI taxation he can have third term. Cleveland
eEder.
App "
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-17

Nv York paper printed picture of the crooked
Witnessed In New York, and oddly enough it wasn't
Began" Get you thought it was.-Buffalo News.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-17

The Thousand persons hit Sundays sawdust trail
a. Any one familiar with Bostons streets
wo sr onder that they banker to try the straight
( Christ. Philadelphia North American.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-17

Rev Dill Is pending
preac telegraph company In America to the department
or control telegraph
on tbay simple matter The simply the telegraph
Life is and them.
the that
ribuss airperhaps difficult of control
topt THE wireless be a OF
OF hat should be controlled and
Frpeace time
very good thing for to do would to
fnomergency measure of the pending BILL quickly
will be
- hite House pickets represent Watchful Waiting
! NE home to roost.-Toledo Blade
of thirteen states now have presidential suf
Vhere's nothing unlucky in that.-Wchits
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-17

Mt. Tacoma Local 188, Rail-
way Carmen, will give its fourth
annual masquerade ball Saturday
evening at Eagles hall. Four
prizes will be given.
A committee has been appoint
ed by Mt. Tacoma 168 to confer
with other locals and arrange for
an open meeting for all locals of
the Brotherhood Of Railway Car
men.
The committee consists of L. +.
Allard, John Demers and John
Williams.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-17

Q.-Will you kindly advise
me through the columns of
your paper IL the electric
needle will effectively do
away with superfluous hair,
and IL the method is perma-
nent? ID. B.
A.-ElectrOylysis is the most
reliable way OF removing superflu-
Gus hair, provided that one has a
first class operator. The method
Is permanent.