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Despite the fact that Ty Cobb, the sensational outfielder for the Detroit Tig CTS went hitless yesterday, thus stopping his string of games for consecutive hit ting, he has proven, without a doubt, that he is the greatest player of all time Cobb went 35 games before he was sent away from the plate on each trip during a game without having a base hit to his credit He holds the major league rec ord for consecutive hitting now with 40 games, but it was his desire to put 1t to the 50 mark. Last year Cobb was dethroned as the champion batter of the American league. Many thought he had faded But such is not the case. Up to date the Georgia Peach" has been setting a pace which no player in the majors could come near approaching. There's but one Ty and he's certainly a wonder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-07
COMSTOCK HIT HARD

Previous to the ninth the Travellers hit Comstock for eight hits, one of them a triple and a double, but after they got men on they were easily tanned by the spit-baller.
 The Barons were the victims of a triple play in the very first inning and that performance gave the Travellers new spirit azd put new fight in them. It is baseball tradition that the team that makes triple play wins the game and the Travellers were out to follow the rule The Travellers set the stage for the three-time killing when Tincup dropped McDonald's fly and Ledbetter booted Johnstons bunt. Coombs then drove a liner to Kennedy for the first out, Ken nedy threw to Covington and Johnston was doubled off the bag. Covington threw to Wares on second, the ball beating Me Donald to the bag, and Eddie was the third out.
 The Travellers seem to be fond of fol- lowing the Barons' style of play. Recent ly Ralph Comstock pitched no-hit game and soon afterward Ben Tincup came along and held the Barons hitless. Early this week the Barons staged a triple kill- ing at the expense of the Mobile Gulls and today the Travellers pulled the same play on the Barons.
 In tomorrows double header Hill and Black will probably oppose Tincup and North
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International League


 At Rochester: Rochester 2, Toronto l. At Richmond: Richmond 4. Newark B.
 Other two games scheduled for to- day were played yesterday.
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Games Today

Birmingham at Little Rock. Atlanta at Memphis (two games) Mobile at Nashville.
 New Orleans at Chattanooga.
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HOW THEY STAND
OUTHERN LEAGUE STANDING
Results Yesterday

Birmingham 1, Little Rock ?. New Orleans 4, Chattanooga 2. Mobile 4. Nashville 0. Atlanta Memphis-rain.
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Summary: StoIcn bases. Lunte, Me Dowell. Bowden 2. Two base hits, El- lam, Myers Jansen. Earned runs, De- catur ?. Hit by pitcher, Myers. Bases on balls, Decatur 1. Bonnet 3. Struck out, Decatur 8. Bennett l. Wild pitches. Decatur 2. Time, 1:40. Empires. Marcan and Kerin.
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Games Today
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Results Yesterday Boston 4, Cincinnati 2. Chicago 3, Brooklyn 1. New York ?, St. Louis 1. Pittsburg 8, Philadelphia 5.
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AMERICAN LEAGuE
Results Yesterday

Results Yesterday Detroit Chicago 1. Cleveland F, St. Louis 6.
 Games Today Philadelphia at Chicago. New York at St. Louis. Washington at Detroit. Boston at Cleveland.
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New Orleans ..................... .010 900 003-4 Chattanooga .....................O 900 002 OOO-:
 Summary: Two-b base hit. Gleason Sac rifice hits, Stansbury, Graf Double plays Elberfeld to Gleason to Hyatt; Graf to Gleason to Hyatt. Bases on balls, Robert son l, Bailey 2, Bacon 5. Innings pitched, by Robertson 2-3, with 5 hits and 1 run (two on bases, two out when relieved). Struck out, Bailey 1, Bacon l. Time, :50. Empires, Morgan ana Breitenstein.
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Dodgers Master Champs

Brooklyn. July 6.--Chicago made it eight out of nine games from Brook lyn to date by opening it's second east ern trip here today with a 3 to vic- tory. Phil Douglas held the National league champions to six scattered hits Score: R. H. E. Chicago ............... 001 020 0003 ' ? Brooklyn ............ 600 010 O00-1 0
 Batteries Douglas and Wilson; Pfef- fer, Cadore and Meyers.
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LEDBETTER WINS GAME

Ledbetter missed two and then shot hot liner through the box. Danny Clark went over on the ball and knocked it down but was unable to get hold of 1t. Kennedy crossed the plate with the win ming run.
 The Barons scored their one with the aid of base on balls, which was given to Eddie Mcdonald when he led off in the ninth. Johnston advanced him on a sacrince and Cecil Coombs scored him with g double to left field. Coombs hit was a hard hit low line drive. Little Rock fans are divided upon the point as to whether or not Tincup should have made the catch. It would have been wonderful fielding stunt if he had and Coombs would have had cause to have preferred charges of highway robbery against the Indian.
 It vas only in the ninth inning that the Barons really threatened to score. Ledbetter was as invincible in the pinches as was Comstock but the Razor did not meet up with the numerous series of pinches that confronted the Baron hurler.
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IOtaIs ....3.. 33 27 15 *Batted for Decatur in ninth
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Ralph COn1st0ck Bested Tn
 Brilliant Pitching Battle
Barons and Travellers Play Through Eight Innings Without Scoring-Barons Take Lead in Ninth But Rally by
 Rasorbacks Turns Defeat Into Close Victory
By HENRY LoEscH

Ralph ComstocIx lost brilliant
 pitchers battle to Ralph Ledbet-
 ter this afternoon in the ninth i'm
 ming, when the TravIers bumped
 him for a home run, double and
 a single, which produced two runs
 and decided the game in favor of
 L&ttIe Rock, to l.
 The Barons had scored their one in their half of the ninth and with Com stock pitching masteriui ball, 1t seemed certain that one run would settle the game. but Ralph made fatal error. The count was three and two on Chieftain Ben Tincup, who had famed in pinch in the sixth. Comstock served up fast one right down the middle of the plate Tincup drove it over the dome of Will liam Webb for four bases and the run that tied the count. Webb fell down in turning to go back but he really had no chance at the ball.
 Homer Haworth, who had succeeded Smith behind the bat in the second in- ming, when the sorrel-topped catcher suf- fered an injured finger when he got his right hand in front of foul tip, com pIicated matters in the ninth when he took Kennedys high bounder in front of going down Wares failed in two efforts to lay one down and then smashed a double into left field, sending Kennedy to third. Chapman was purposely walked, dlling the bases with none out.
The Washington times., 1917-10-13
OLDSMOBILE RUNS
26,149 MILES IN
4NO5STOP" TEST

One Of the most difficult endurance
tests which an automobile was ever
called upon to perform wasrecently
staged by the oldsmobile Company,
Of New England, at Boston.
expenditure of % horsepower.
stock car, was mounted on jacks In
the eompany's spacious show win
dows, and for forty-seven consecutive
days and nights, drove q 17-kilowatt
dynamo. giving the car a load equiva-
lent to climbing a 1919 grade, and
requiring an actual and continuous
expenditure Of - horsepower
Mayor Curley, IN the presence of
newspaper men and official observers,
pressed the starter and threw in. the
clutch that marked the beginning Of
the test. For LIPS hours. the motor
ran At An average speed OF % miles
Der hour, without stopping, eQualiing
. distance OF 26,14e miles Gasolene
was consumed at q rate Of 223s miles
per gallon.
The Hood. Of light, generated by the
dynamo, demonstrated day and night
that ths car was doing its work.
Altar the speedometer showed that
the car had broken the best previous
nonstop record by 4,127 miles, the
car wGs stopped. --' -
The Washington times., 1917-10-13

tired mount colburn Is a taxider-
mist and collector of mounted speci-
mems of birds and animals for mu-
seu1As and has found his motorcycle
indispensable in his numerous hunts
for specimens
He carries q gun In q specially ar
ranged contrivance on his machine
and has acquired the art Of bagging
his game without reducing his speed.
When within range Of his query, he
relinauishes his handle bar grip.
seixes his trusty gun, and bangs away.
His motorcycles has enabled him to
securs many nne specimens Of birds
that could not have been approached
otherwise.
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without all bounds OF reasonable tina
to wait for shipment OF goods from
another city as near as New York.
II have been patient. realize that
conditions OF wartime are difficult;
that delays in moving freight are
natural things to expect, and that
troops and their supplies. equipment,
and food must have the right of way.
But ] am tired.
Sixty days ago ordered some
military sweaters from New York. In
peace times three days would be am
pie time for their transportation. con-
ceding average delays. In wartime
can admit OF such difficulties In this
class OF transportation as would re-
ouire ten days or two weeks FOR this
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shipment to get 10 Washington. but
can't for the life OF me see where q
car could spend sixty days en- route
over a stretch Of 24o miles
Unless have some satisfaction
that those sweaters will get here
very shortly. / will advertise this re-
missuess Of the railroads in q FASH
lon that will do them no good.
Were mine q commodity business
should undoubtedly have motor
trucks to make this haul because
from investigation know them to be
cheaper to operate and maintain than
the payment Of express chargea But
will give the truck ! have no need
for such q boost in value with ex-
press users in this city that the rail-
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roads win never forget it
Unless my shipment arriys8 from
New York very soon, VII put into,
operation an intercity prairissehooner.
horssdrawn, whose sides VIII BE let
tered with the caption:
"Prairie Schooner, Beats the Ran
road Between New York and WASH
inxton BY Fifty Days."
The Washington times., 1917-10-13
MAY Use SCHOONER"
WAGON TO BEAT TRAINS
Washington Dealer Says Horses
Would Get His Goods Quicker.

Joseph b. prsyfuss Of Dreyfuss
Bros, dealers In military Foods ana
equipment. IL incsnssd because of the
cooperating express conditions.
Sixty days." he said yesterday, s4s
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SURE 1hiNel

Mr.. Newpop-sss how perfectly
attn IN. baby il. Iwondsr what ne IL
think aboutf
NJ Nswpop-ProeaSly What to ry
.bout n,xt.-Brookiyn citizsn.
The Washington times., 1917-10-13
MUSEUM COLLECTOR USES
MOTORCYCIEN HUNTS
Bags Valuable Specimens Of AMI
mails While On Trips.

Among the many practical uses to
which motorcycles have been adapted,
none q more unique than the kind Of
employment Everett colburn. Of Los
Angeles, has found for his Goodyear
The Washington times., 1917-10-13
Lines Written on Thinking Over the
AdamsOn Bill and the District
, of Columbia

Oh Maryland dear Maryland the District has your number
The Adamsonan bill has got your best Angora Goat:
You that not Of yours shall down to sumber
The while the eyes of Congress hold this hmpairing mote
You ask what the District did to warrant fftyffy
And charge that approaches the city are bum
You the roads yoursat few cutie nifty
And we'll need 'en penteous for-shal say it?~rum
Oh Maryland dear Maryland the nasty things you're saving
Your spirit must be peevsh the District of Coumb
The selhshness you charge with, the vroc hayinr
The credit that you slip wouldn't aggregate crumb
The tolls you call attention yore to hand Won
Are lifted and the is something that you need
You say the blocks bloody they reprimand vou
And what to do for revenue will puzzle you indeed.
Maryland your Uncle Sans copper
WIG puts his orders bruAly,
The kick kick. the howl
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Fisher of wthta ddoOa moHshy
yhasom the
of sings
forward
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fulfilled reality This pr
idea oa"eA
Vienna and London 4M tn !
aabeo thee
o M
in
the southern arnish Ia
informed he understood the British &C.
Sill
having
eddensm
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ADJOURNMENT IS
EXPECTED DURING
MONTH OF OCTOBER

NASUlNGTON. Sept. l6.-ConSres-
sinnnl plans. completed today contem-
plate adjournment early in October.
Speed in the senate Alon" Is essential
70 carrying this pinn int effect. The
house has almost completed It's worN
and confereeS nrc making al possible
haSie 10 reach agreements on measures
that have passed both houses.
Indications are that the senate VIII
corporate IN the effort 10 reach ad'
Juurnment ut tn" timr tentatively set
Il rushed through the trading win the
enemy and WA" bond bills last. week in
record time ana has taken nnld OF the
soldiers and sailors lrSuranc" Dill. ono
OF the two remaining big measures |.
has TO pass. with IN apparent dctcrnin-
alton to expedite consideration e.. H.
Cloturc may hc irSorlcd to IT necessary
President Wilson has no now leSis-
linton ,a pres"n; and is understood to
be quite ready 10 have congress go
homo. His insIstcncc that the insu--
ance bill be passed bcfre adjournment
communicated t. the senate last Frt.
day by wireless is said TO have bee.i
through no desire to have congress re-
main here for any other purpose than
70 get that bill out OF the way.
Aside from the insurance measure and
the seven billion dollar war deficiency
bill. most or the big legislation OF the
session will be incOnference this week.
They include the war tax. bonds. and
trading with the enemy bills. The war
measure will SO TO conference from the
house tomorrow and the other already
are IL the conterces hands.
Agreement on the war tax bill some
time this week Is anticipated. Its con-
sidcratinn has progressed smoothly, con-
slder!ng it's far reaching Importance
and the many changes made in the house
bill by the senate. Minor matters now
are being threshed out and by Thursday.
It Is expected. the two big issues. excess
profits Tux and mail rates will be under
discussion. Forecasts are that the bill
will emerge from conference carrying
provisions for lcvies Of about $780,
oo0 900. Changes will be principally in
method OF assessing taxation and not
In auGunts.
q 4 Insistcnce Of Democratic Lead
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, clared had attacked our territory" But
the Emperor makes no mention Of this
| fact. Of supreme Importance II true. in
| his writing TO President Wilson six days
| later. Won Bethmann- Fl ollweg's account
Is ms follows:
Won Bethmann-HollweSs Superseded
Speech
80 Gentlemen. n series OF doc
| umcnts. composed In the rush Of events.
is in your hands. Allow me 10 place be-
| fore you the facts which characterize
our attitude.
From the very beginning Of the Aus
| triau conflict We strove and worked
/ toward the end that this trouble remain
confined to Austria-Hungnry and Serbia.
All Cabinets. especially that Of England.
/ take the same stand; only Russia de-
clares that she must have a word In the
decision Of this counflict. Herewith
the danger OF European entag lements
arises. AS soon as the first authentic
reports Of the military preparations in
Russia reached US we declared in n
| friendly but emphatic manner In st.
Petersburg that war measures and mill
tary preparations would force us 10
prepare. and that mobilization is closely
akin to war.
Russia asserts in what is an appar-
! emily friendly manner that she Is not
mobillzing against us. In the meantime
| England tries To- mediate between VI
emma and ST. Petersburg. In which shn
is warmly supported by liz. On July
rs the Kaiser Photographed the Gear
asking him to consider that Austria
Hungary has the right and that II is her
duty ~ defend herself against Serbian
intrrurs. which threaten TO undermine
! her existence The Kaiser called tho
attention Of the Car TO their common
| monarrhcal interests with regard to the
AT about the sam" hour In which
this telegram WAS sent the Car asked
the Kaiser for his support and request
ed him to advise Vienna to be moderate
in it's demands. The kHiScr assumed
the role OF mediator. Hardly had DO
begun his activity when RUSSIA mobiliz-
cd It's entire lighting force against Aus
rriu-HunKury. AustrIn-IIungary. how
ever had modified only those army
corps which were directed against Ser
b!a: In the north there were only two
iarmy corps. and these far from the Rus
sian border.
"rhc Kaiser Immediately called the
Iattentton Of the Gar to the fact that
this mobilization of his forces against
Austria Hungary made his position as
mediator difficult or absolutely impossi-
hle In spite Of this we continued our
mediatorial activities in Vienna going
Ia the utmost limits OF consistency with
the terms Of our federal treaty. During
this time Russia again spontaneously As
surcd us that her military preparations
were not directed against us.
The thirty-firEt OF July arrived. In
Vienna the decision was 10 be mnde. In
the meantime we had succeeded with our
negotiations in reaching a point where
Vienna resumed intercourse with ST.
Petersburg. which for some time had
hecn discontinued but before tho final
decision was reached In Vienna the news
arrived that Russia had modified It's
entire fighting force which meant also
against us.
The Russian government, which from
repeated admon!tions knew what mob
HIKING on our borders meant did not
notify us Of this mobilization and gave
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Analysis and Interpretation OF Ger
man Emperor's Rescrtpt TO
President Wilson.

Whom the German Emperor in my
nresence tndited his letter to President
Wilson Of August 10. 1914. he asked that
7 cable II Immediately to the state
Denartment and that I simultaneously
rive II to the press. AZ have ALREADY
stated. I cabled the document imme-
dIately to the State Department at
washington but I withheld 1t from pub
LEGATION.
Ny interview with tho Emperor was
in the morning. That afternoon man
holding a high position In Germany scne
for me. do not give his name because
I do not wish to involve him In any way
with the Emperor so I shall not even
indicate whether he Is royalty or an
oficial. He said:
You had an Interview today with the
Emperor. What happened?
told OF the message given me Tor
the President which was intended FOR
publication by the Emperor He said:
II think you ought to show that mes
sage to me: you know the Emperor is a
constitutional Emperor and there was
once a great row about such mes
sage"
showed him the message. and when
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er Kitchin and others the meetings %
the conferecs are executive.
Only a few big differences exist BE-
tween the two houses on the war cFAAr
It's and trading with the enemy n.saht
surcs. The principal changes made ~
the senate in the war credits bill ara
the increase Of from one seventh TO ON
fourth OF one per cent in the allowafc9
for floating the bonds and the decreaSH
in the certificates allowances from pph
tenth to one twentieth. More importapf
provisions were added to tho trading
bill by the senate. They include GtHn
ing the president power to stop importAt
to prohibit enemy life insurance CON.
panics from operating in this county,
and the King amendment to require
German language newspapers to prmo
English translations Of their articlee,
Whether the alien draft resolutioaS
adopted by the senate last week. Ktk
be taken up in the house Is undeisHt
mined. Many members want II adoDbf
ed. but II may be crowded out In TIP
rush preceding adjournment ~
. The war deficiency bill probably WIZ
pass the house tomorrow. Tho senate.
will rcconvene Tuesday and take UP ~
Webb export trading bill. already paAseN
by inc mouse, hIO lIllS III po AoiaOWGNh
by the Walsh oil land leasing bill. Th1s
deficiency measure may displace one n
these The insurance bill is bong.
given committee consideration and pro0-
ably will be reported late this week:
The house committee. appointed
investigate defective ammunition, VIII:
begin its hearings tomorrow. with E
number OF employees. including insp4QS
tors and chemists Of the Frankford AZ
senal. called us witnesses. go.
Among the minor legislative matters.
pending in the house are the bill 20
allow homestead and other public l8n4,
afIldavits to be taken before the nHet
tary commander OF any person eneage3:
In military or naval service OF a.
United States. and the senate bill -.
authorize the interior department %:
permit exploration adm disposition q,
potash fields. both favorably reported BY
the public lands committee and urged a
war measures. =.
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he had read II he said: IT think It would
be tnadviSable for us to have this mes
sage published. and in the interest OF
good feeling between Germany ana
America. If you cable 1t ask that pub
LEGATION be withheld.
complied with his request and 1t Ia
characteristic Of the Presidents desire
TO preserve good relations that puolica-
tion was withheld. Now. when the two
countries are at war; when the whole
world. and especially our own country
has an interest in knowing no" THIS
great calamity Of universal war came to
,be earth. the time has come when this
message should be given out and l have
published 1t by permission.
Kaiser wilhelm's Weak Excuse.
This most interesting document In the
first place clears up one Issue never
really obscure in the eyes or the world
the deliberate violation OF the neutral
ity Of Belgium. whose territory had to
be violated by Germany on strategical
Grounds" The very weak excuse is
added that news" had been received
thar France was already preparing TO
,nter Belgium" NOT even q prctense
that there had ever been any actual
violation Of Belgiun's frontier by the
French prior to the German invasion OF
that unfortunate country or course
the second excuse. that the King or the
Relgians had refused free passage TO the
Enperors troops under guarantee OF MS
country's freedom. Is even weaker tnan
the first. It would. indeed. inaugurate
a new"era in the intercourse OF nations
II a small nation could only preserve
Its freedom by ut all times on request
grnnting free passage to the troops OF
Z powerful neighbor on the march 10
attack an adjoining country.
Serajevo outrage. and asked him person
ally to support him In order to establish
harmony between Vienna and st. Peters
burg.
When. on the evening OF August g.
1919. Won Schoen. the German amoaRSa-
dor in Paris. presented to the french
government the German declaration OF
war, that document stated that ihe
German civil and military authorities
have reported certain number OF
definite acts OF hostility committed on
German territory by French military
ayiators. s.vertl OF these have clearly
violated the neutrality Of Belgium In
dying over the territory of this country.
One Of them tried to destroy structures
near Wcsel; others have been seen IN
The region OF Eiffel; another has thrown
bombs on the railway near Karlsruhe
end Nurnberg.
II am charged. and I have the honor
10 make known to your EXCnllency. that
IN the presence Of these aggresstons the
German empire considers itself in state
Of war with France by the oct Of this
latter power" But when the German
emperor. on August 10. wrote his per
sonal explanation for President Wilson
he made no mention Of this alleged vlo-
Triton OF the neutrality Of Belgium BY
tho French. but wrote that that neu-
trality had" to he violated by tho Ger
mans ION stratcgical grounds"
And. aside from tho violation OF Rel
gian neutrality. what would have be-
come Of England and Of the world Il
the Prusstan autocracy had been left
free to defeat-one by one-thc nations
OF the earth? First would come tho de-
feat Of Russia and Serbia by Austria