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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23
SMITH HOLDS HONORS
Omaha Player Continues to Lead the
w. L. BatterS.

Earl Smith, of Omaha, continues to
top the batters of the Western league,
averages including games of Tuesday
showing him hitting at a $50 clip.
He drove out fourteen hits, two of
them home runs, in his last five
games.
In addition Smith is leading in
home runs with seven, and is one
behind Gilmore, of Sioux City, for
honorS in runs scored, Gilmore having
fifty-one. Krug, of Omaha, strength
ened his position as the leading sacri-
flee hitter with twenty-five, and j.
A. Thompson, also of Omaha, added
two more stolen bases, bringing his
total up to twenty. Sioux City main
tanned it's lead in team batting with
2S2
Leading batters for half of their
clubs games: Smith, Omaha, $50:
Jones, Wichita, .353; Crosby, SIOUX
City, .331; Koran, Joplin, $50; Krug,
Omaha, 1926; RAIDER, Sioux City, .32S;
Connolly, Sioux City, 1918; F. Henry.
st. Joseph, .309; Watson, Sioux City,
sos; Adams, st. Joseph, .306
Leading pitchers participating in
thirteen or more games, rated accord
ing to earned runs per game:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23
Il - UP to the Minute
| ~ SPORTING NEWS
| NJ FROM EVERYWHERE.
ii
COBB STILL KING
He Has Pulled Ahead of Speak
er During the Week.
Cruise of st. Louis National
League Pace Setter.

Chicago. June 23.-Ty Cobb is
drawing away from iris Speaker in
the race for batting honors in the
American league. Unofficial averages
released today show the Detroiter
leading with 36S-twenty-five points
ahead of Speaker. A week ago three
points separated them. The averages
include games of last Wednesday.
Cobb drove out nine hits in his last
five contests. bringing his total up to
. seventy for fifty-two games. Two or
his nine blows were doubles, and one
a triple George Sisler, the st. Louis
first baseman, after being in an ap-
parent slump, is again up in the race
with an average of $40. Earl Ham
ilton. St. Louis pitcher, is batting 400
and Babe" Ruth, Boston twirler. is
hitting $50.
Weaver of Chicago has scored more
runs than any player in either
major league, having crossed the plate
forty times. Roth of Cleveland main
tanned his position as leading base
stealer with nineteen, and Chapman,
his teammate, kept his pace in sacri-
flee hitting with thirty-one. Pipp of
New York is leading the home run hit
ters with five. Chicago, which is lead
ing the league, nosed out Boston for
team batting with .242.
Leading batters who have played in
half of their clubs games: Cobb.
Detroit, .36S; speaker, Cleveland,
.343; McInnis. Philadelphia, .315 !;
Chapman, Cleveland, 80; Sisler, St.
Louis, $40; Wambsganss, Cleveland,
300; Rice, Washington, .297; Jacob
son, st. Louis. .297; Veach. Detroit.
.290; Wayker Boston, .2SS; jackson,
Chicago, .2S7; Walters, New York,
.2S6.
Leading Pitchers.
The leading pitchers participating in
ten or more games. rated according to
earned runs per game:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23
ON THE FINALS TODAY
Omaha Player Gives Harry Legg Bat
tie for Big Golf Title.

st. Joseph, Mo-, June 23.-The
championship of the Transmississippi
Golf association will be decided today,
and there is serious doubt in the minds
of the experts here that the title will be
retained by Harry G. Legg, of Mime
apolis. Play started in the final with
Legg's opponent, S. w. Reynolds, of
the Omaha Field club, in promising
form.
Rain was threatened, but the thirty
six holes will be played regardless.
Reynolds is a seasoned player and all
conceded that the title holder had a
hard race.
club, is picked by the galley to defeat
James E. Nugent of the Hillcrest
Country club, Kansas City, in the final
of the consolation match, ending the
annual tournament.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23
BASEBALL TODAY.
National League

National League.
Chicago at Pittsburg, 2, clear first, D. m
Boston at Brooklyn, ., clear, first 80 D. m
New York at Philadelphia, clear, 2 80 p. m
Cincinnati at st. Louis, cloudy, p. m.
American League.
Cleveland at Chicago, rain, 8 p. m.
Philadelphia at New York, 2, clear, first
80 D. m.
Washington at Boston, 2, clear, first, 1 &c
d. m.
st. Louis at Detroit, rain, 3 p. m.
American Association
Columbus at Milwaukee, rain, 3 p. m.
Toledo at St Paul, cloudy, 8 p. m.
indianapolis at Minneapolis, cloudy, p. m
Louisville at Kansas City, cloudy, 5 p. m.
Western League.
Des Moines at Lincoln, clear, 8 80 p. m.
Joplin at Wichita. cloudy, 80 D. m
Sioux City at Omaha, clear. 8 Is D. m.
st. Joseph at Denver, clear, 3 80 p. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23
National League.

Cruise of st. Louis shot into the
lead among the National league bat
tiers with an average of $50, accord
ing to figures including games of
Wednesday. He is nine points ahead
of Roush of Cincinnati Cruise made
eleven hits in his last seven games.
There was a general shakeup among
leaders in other departments of the
game, Robertson of New York depos-
ing Zelder OF Chicago as the leading
base stealer with seventeen. Stengel
of Brooklyn took the lead in sacrifice
hitting, with fourteen, and Hornsby
of st. Louis tied Cravath of Philadel-
phia for home run honors, each hav-
ing six. Heinie Groh of Cincinnati de-
throned Burns of New York as the
leader in runs scored with thirty
eight. Philadelphia maintained the
lead in team batting with .26S.
Leading batters, playing in half of
their club games: Cruise, st. Louis
$50; Roush, Cincinnati, .341; Jack
Smith. st. Louis. .33S; Fischer, Pitts
burg, 1927, Burns, New York, 1885,
Griffith. Cincinnati, 1922; Hornsby St.
Louis, .314; Zimmerman, New York.
.313: Whitfield, Philadelphia, 3O6;
Kauff, New York, .3O4; Groh, Cincin-
natl, 1902, Wheat, Brooklyn, .3O1;
Rawlings. Boston 800.
Leading Pitchers.
Leading pitchers who have partici-
pated in ten or more games, rated ac-
cording to earned runs per game:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23
WILL PLAY ST. MARYS
knights of Columbus Are Expecting
Hard Game Tomorrow.

Tommy Brennan, manager of the
Knights of Columbus baseball team,
announces that he is expecting the
hardest game of the season when his
battlers go up against ST. Marys at
Western league park. The St. Marys
team has five college players on its
roster and is reported coming to To-
peka to show up the Brennanites.
Manager Brennan also announced
this morning that he has accepted
Spencer Arthur Abbott's challenge to
play the Elks on July Fourth on a
winner take all basis. The K. of c.
team will play the Topeka Greys here
Sunday week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23
FRITZ A REGULAR
MaiseI Has Made Good With
New York Yankees.
Fans Who Once Knocked Him
Praise His Work.
RY JACK VEIOCK.

New York, June 2S.-Fritz Maisel,
the diminutive Yankee infielder, has
made good at last.
After a four-year battle against
many obstacles in his path as a MEM
Der of the Yanks, Maisel has estab-
lished himself as a regular, and Ca
tonville, Md, his home town, appears
to be firmly plastered on the baseball
map.
1t has been within the last month
that Maisel has come into his own.
W hen the season opened there were
any number of critics who said he
would never do as a second baseman.
Bill Donovan has Paddy Bauman and
Joe Gedeon on the bench, both eager
for the chance to grab the second
basing job, and for a time it looked
certain that Maisel would have to be
content to decorate the long timbers
in the dugout. His fielding was his
big fault, and to say the least he was
a wabbly actor around second base.
Naturally a third baseman or short
stop, Maisel found the territory around
the keystone sack entirely foreign to
him. He got into the habit of fight
ing the ball and he found it difficult
to get his throws away without pull
ing Wallie Pipp about steen miles off
the bag.
Had To Be Keystoner.
But with Frank Baker holding the
third base job and Roger Peckinpaugh
firmly established at shortstop. Mai
sci had to make a second baseman out
of himself or be showed out of the
spotlight. So Maisel buckled down to
the job, and tho he had a tough time
of it, he finally won out. Bill Dono-
van is satisfied now that Maisel has
the hang of second baSing and since
do
field stands out as one of the very best
in the big leagues.
Maisel had to face the same propo-
sition that Buck Herzog was up
against when he Joined the Giants, for
altho Herzog played fifty odd games
at second for the Giants back in 1905,
he spent the succeeding years up to
1915 around third base and the short
field, and he said at the time that
playing on the left side of the diamond
so long had made it imperative for
him to learn the A. B. C's of keystone
sacking all over again. Maisel never
played regularly as a second baseman
( until this season. At Baltimore he
played both third and short and he
came to the Yanks as a third sacker
Tor price said to have been $4,000.
Fans Praise Him.
In 1916 an injured shoulder was in
his way as a big handicap, and he
was not of much use to the club. He
played in only SO games, part at sec
ond base and the rest in the outer
gardens. But ball player who stands
his team 10000 cold simoleons is not
parted with easily, and Donovan want
ed to give Maisel every possible
chance to make good
To-day the fans who said Maisel
would never do as a second baSeman
are showering him with praise, for he
is beginning to field with the grace
and steadiness of Eddie Collins and he
has an active brain out there around
the Keystone that makes his presence
on the club doubly valuable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23

Bill Wambsganss, better known
as "Wamby," was shortstop when
he Joined the Cleveland Indians, but
Lee Foil has since transformed him
into one of the leagues best second
sackers. Wamby is tall and rangy
and looks very fast even in the COM
pany of Ray Chapman at short, who
Cleveland infield-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23

Hutchinson, Kan, June 23.-This
city has been chosen as the place for
the next state convention of the Kan
sas State Association of Retail Shoe
Dealers. The meeting will be held in
February 1918.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23

With DIR. "Pete" He'll, Stiff Randall.
and Rock" Woodward and a few othel
lesser lights to draw from the Third Regi
ment ought to be able to turn out a cracl
football team all right. He'll, Randals ant
Woodward ought to defeat an ordinar!
team all by themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23

Another ex-Topekan, who is making good
this year is Al Schweitzer, who was a
flivver with the Savages last season.
Schweitzer is in the international league
and in a letter to Tom Powell announces
that he is leading the league. Last week
he was batting above 400.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23

Otis Lambeth has finally gotten back
in his stride and is pitching some great
baseball for the Cleveland Indians Lambeth
has always had the stuff, but it seems to
take hot weather to bring it out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23

ST. Joe is about to part company with
her Western league baseball club, accord
ing to a statement given out by Jack Hol-
land, the Missouri magnate.
Holland has announced that unless S., 600
is Forthcoming from a ticket selling cam
paign he will be compelled to fold up his
tent and turnstiles and go elsewhere. How
ever, an effort is being made to dig up
the $4,000.
st. Joe has been near the rocks for sew
eral seasons-that is the club has not
been paying proposition The fans claim
that poor attendance has been due to the
ball and if they really believe this It seems
improbable that they will kick in literally
to hold the club.
But st. Joe, with all her troubles, is
little worse off than many other towns in
years that the daddy of minor leagues
was being run on impractical lines and SO
long as the policy is not changed lot of
cities like Topeka and st. Joe and Wich-
ita will have to drop out or become char
liable organizations.
Recalling that the battle of Waterloo was
won on the sport fields of England, a num-
Der of patriotic Americans are beginning
a campaign to check the sissy move to
abandon athletic endeavors during the dur
alton of the war 1t will not be very
popular than~ever in a few months.
If thirteen minor leagues quit on July
Fourth there will be a big scarcity of base
baseball circles will suffer, fans, big minor
leagues and the majors
If all the little minors quit there will be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23

A man in Topeka who does not care for
golf has a friend who recently acquired the
habit of getting up at o'clock and going
out to play a round before sunrise 1T
just shows that everybody has some form
of insanity" the non-golfer says.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23

But a great deal of the cream is liable
not to go up this year any way. As gen.
erous as they are, few of the big league
moguls will exert themselves writing
checks for young ball players who may be
armless and legless war heroes before the
1918 season starts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23
Sport Wheezes
by CLUG-

st. Joe is about to part company with
her Western league baseball club, accord
ing to statement given out by Jack Hol-
land the Missouri magnate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23

no place for the big minors to get new
material, and if the big minors can't get
new material they can't send their cream to
the big league stations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23

If all the little minors quit there will be
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-10
BlAME T GERMANS
FOR LOYALTY
IN THIS WAR
Teutons Who Are American Citi-
zens Criticized by Press Of
Fatherland
CALL IT D1sOWNING RACE
IN HOUR OF DISTRESS

Amsterdam, May 1O.-Bitter con-
demnation of German Americans is
the feature of an article in the Kreuz
Zeitung on mobilization in the Uni
ted States. The writer, first in ex-
pressing utter disdain for the present
American army, comments on the
costliness of volunteer recruiting and
the obstacles to conscriptiOn, such as
a lack of lists of men capable OF
bearing arms. Referring to the 10y
atty resolution passed at meetings OF
German-Americans, he said:
"German-Americans could not be-
tray their mother country more
shamefully. The more pitiful is the
cowardly zeal with which the 2,0OO.-
600 German-Americans in the nation
al association disown their race in
time of distress.
"The term German faithfulness is
hereby forever dishonorcd. Nothing
binds us to these 'German'-Ameri-
cans. We only carry one wish and
that as speedily as possible they
erase the word German from the
name of their organization, its use
being inculting to the German people
as to themselves.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-10

BISMARCK WINS
PAVING CASE IN
SUPREME COURT

BY a four.fifths decision, Bis.
marck this afternoon won the
second round in the second dis.
triet paving fight. The supreme
courts opinion, written by Judge
6irdzeII, and concurred in by
justices Bruce, Grace and Cot.
fey, the last named sitting for
christianson, affirms the decision
Of Judge NuessIe Of the Sixth
district court, who denied the pc.
tition Of Oscar H. Will and 9th.
ers for an injunction restraining
paving operations and ordered
the motion dismissed.
The only dissent is filed by
Justice Robinson, who discusses
the economic and general feaL
tures Of the case rather than the
legal points at issue.
Attorney c. L. Young handled
the presentation Of this case for
the city, with Miller, Zuoer &
Tiilotson and States Attorney
Mccurdy Of counsel. Judge Ellis.
worth Of jamestown was chief Of
counsel for thL -s-s..~1, with F.
n. Register and r. N. Stevens as
assistants.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-10
SHORT [ULL IN
DEVELOPMENTS
!. At MAGIC CITY
1njunctions Issued This Morning
for Closing of Three More
Bawdy Houses
ATTORNEY TWIF0RD IS
LATEST ARREST VICTIM
Officers Claim They Found Ex-
cessive Amount of Liquor
D. Consignments
(Special to Tribune.l


Minot, N. D., May 1O.-A short lull
was noticeable here this afternoon in
further developments from the raid
of Monday night ~3
Attorney General LANCER, who left
the city yesterday, sent word that he
will be back Immediately upon learn
ing that warrant had been issued
for his arrest. The states attorney
announced that number of war
rants were sworn to this morning
and will be served some time today.
&. Three More Houses Closed.
= 1njunctions were issued this morn,
mig for the closing OF three more
bawdy houses. H.
Papers were sworn to last night
and served for the arrest of Attorney
G. w. Twiford. Enforcement officers
claim they found an excessive
amount of liquor consigned to him
during recent visit to the express
Office. .%n
love Backed by Corporations.
Assistant States Attorney General
Brennan. who is in the city, declares
that the action brought against Attor-
ney General Langer is backed by the
corporations and looks like a fight to
the finish. ss.
The threat to, '"get Ianger" was
carried into effect late yesterday,
when Judge Leighton issued an order
appointing Attorneys Sinkler and
Greenleaf as special prosecutors and
shortly afterward County Judge Muir
ray signed warrant for the arrest
Of Attorney General Hanger, r. C. Up
ton and A. Upton, on a charge of OBJ
structing telephone communication
growing out of the anti-vice raids in
this city. -
The Upton brothers, who are
among the city's most prominent bus:
mess men. gave bail in the sum Of
$1,000 each, the warrant for Attorney
General LANCER not being served, as
he had been called to Bismarck on
urgent business early in the day.
Raids in the anti-vice campaign
continued last night, over 100 quarts
of whisky addressed to prominent
attorney having been seized. 1t is
reported that a warrant has been is
sued for his arrest.
Attempts to Escape.
Dorothy Barebeau, a girl of 20
years, who was arrested as an inmate
of a disorderly house, attempted to-
escape from the aHta4S 5aH early this
morning. She let herself out of the
second story window ,of rthes jail by
the aid of blanket and ran about
block from the Jail, when discov-
cred by Sheriff Nederloe. He sue.
ceeded in capturing her. An automo-
bile which was waiting for her sue
ceeded in escaping the sheriff.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-10
|BElG|ANS DRAF TED
| FOR GERMAN ARMY

Copenhagen, May 10.-A represent
ative of the German war department
has admitted in the reichstag that a
number of Belgian subjects resident
in Cologne were drafted into the Ger
man army in spite of their protests
that they were veterans Of the Eel.
gian army. The admission was made
in answer to an Interpolation by a
radical socialist deputy. The ques.
ton of citizenship in these cases
would be REFUSED.
The German government has con-
tended that Belgians resident in Ger
many five years prior to the war had
lost their nationality and were sub
ject to the laws of the empire, in-
Guiding enforced military service.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-10
ENCLAND'S.
'I[ FOOD OUTLOOK i
D|SCOURAC|NC.
Not Even Oldest Farmer Recalls
More Trying Time Than That
Thru Which He + Passing sdf
no 1874 t9L III
FARMERS CALENDAR 2goir
ENTIRELY OUT OF GEAR

London, April %. Correspondent
of the American ess.)-Reports of
the agricultural outlook in Great Bri-
tain are almost uniformly discoursg-
ing. ~
Not even the Oldest farmer recalls
a more trying time than that through
which he has just been passing. :
Spring Like Winter. 81.
A late sowing, a poor yield. q vet
autumn, and severe winter have
been followed by a spring with all
the characteristics of December.
The history of the best British
crops this year is story OF sowing
in November and resolving in April.
The wheat area, it is stated, cannot
be large this year. Oats cannot vt
be estimated, and barle.', for some
reason, is in disfavor, although In
some sections there IS prospect OF
good growth.
Potato Crop late. 80 =
The potato crop is late, and atto'
gether the farmers calendar Is out
Of gear, for the farmer must wait
for the weather.
Moreover, there is a considerable
scarcity of seed, owing to the scarcity
of autumn sown crops, and there are
appeals for economy in seed stock.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-10
Sanders Has
! =7aAnnounced
A Solution
Navy Experts Still Skeptical Of
Reported Invention to Cope
With U-B0ats

New York., May l0.-An anti.sub.
marine invention still is Americas
greatest need.
'We are still searching for that
kind of an invention" said Thomas
Robins, secretary Of the naval con-
'sulting board and its spokesman,
when his attention was called to a
report that Chairman William L.
Saunders had announced invention Of
a means of combating U-boats.
iSkepticism was about all that
greeted the Saunders interview.
Keep at it," was the word to
Americas inventors.
F. J. Sprague, chairman of the
boards committee on electricity and
shipbuilding, said he was frankly
CYNICAL ABOUT any rumored discov.
cry and frowned upon false alarms.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-10
WAR INSURANCE
TOCOST $37...5O
MORE PER $1,000
North Dakota Commissioner Ap-
proves Rider Adopted at Ma
tionalr Conference
EXCESS REVENUES WILL
BE RETURNED SOLDIERS
aH ;4:f5F
Adjustment to Be Made at End
Of Year-Aviation and Sub
marine Service Excepted

War insurance promises to cost
Americas fighting men at least $3.50
more per thousand than they pay for
the same protection in times OF
peace. The war rider clause approx
ed by the national. conference OF
state insurance commissioners re.
Gently held in Des Moines has reach.
ed the office of the North Dakota
commissioner, who heartily approves
of the provisions, as furnishing ade-
uuate protection to both insurer and
insured.
The military clause which the Des
Moines conference adopted as mod
ell is to cover the entire period of
military or naval services, in time Of
war, if commenced within five years
of the registration date. -....
"The clause shall call for such ex-
ira premiums as may be fixed by the
company.
Extra premiums charged for the
present shall be at the rate of not
less than $3.50 per annum per thous-
and of insurance.
"In the event of death during ser.
vice or within six months after the
termination thereof, the liability OF
the company shall, unless all requir-
ed extra premiums have been paid,
be limited to an amount not exceed
ing the total premium paid on the
policy. exclusive of any extra premi-
ums which may have been paid for
military or naval service.
"The clause shall require payment
of the extra premium within 81 days
after entering upon service. or. if al
ready in service, along with the first
premium on the policy.
"A refund will be made of any ex-
ira premiums on the policy not re-
quired.
Submarines Excepted.
The extra $3.50 per thousand is
to be made to cover all military and
naval service in the United States.
as we'll as abroad, submarine and
aviation service excepted, and at the
end of the first year the extra charge
may be adjusted on the experience
of the year.