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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
The FAVORITf

Kentucky mountains roll away
Beyond the wales below,
And DER the fields this summer day.
The shadows come ana go;
The breezes ripple thru the wheat
Beneath the blazing sky,
And dazzling in the dancing heat
The pound and paddock lie.
Hal Dalton up and Lady Lee
Trots out. thin legged and black,
AS NJ as horse will ever be.
To thunder down the track,
How sweet upon the summer air
The music OF the band,
For Lady Lee. so heet and iair,
They're cheering In the stand.
They're on I see the clods of dirt
Upheeled from every hoof;
y Hal Dalton I'm HIS yellow shirt
I Bends low and reins aloof;
/ The level country rolls behind,
They gallop fast and free,
For splitting thru the singing wind
The matchless Lady Lee.
Kentuck pulses bound and burn
And hearts are fast with Fate;
Two horses round the upper turn
Then thunder down the straight;
Yon speeding black Is shod with FIRE
Her TANKS are fecked with foam;
White dust. a fash beneath the wire
Hal Dalton rides her homel
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
TRAP SHOOTING
BASEBALL

Matty's first job was TO eradicate
this. He established good feeling
among his players. He showed them
that he was for them and with them
and soon they started TO work for
him. Then the Reds began 20 climb.
Fred 'roney. one OF the great pitch
ers in the league. has been going well.
Fred Schneider Is getting back where
be was a couple OF years ago. Nit
chell IS pitching good ball. Eller and
Ring are doing we'll
Matty has two good catchers In
Clarke and Wingo.
With Chase and Groh as "a nucleus,
ne has developed a good inneld with
shoan. youngstcr and kopf. a Mack
/ an caston az the keystone corner-
His ouihold Is up to average.
Matty has made good.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
Gibson'S Comeback Almost
as Striking as Waqner's

fold almost a year ago by Jimmy Gala
han. Under the rules of baseball he
was entitled 10 an unconditional release,
but McGraw refused 20 waive and Gibson
was sent to New York For a time he
refused TO report, but differences were
patched up last spring.
Gibson Is 81 years old now-an old
man as baseball players are rated He
began playing baseball in 1903 with tho
Kincstm club, of the famous old
Hudson River League--an organization
that took in towns along the river, and
where the players were supposed TO make
the Jumps as best they could.
Then Gibson got into the old Eastern
League, now the international League.
and did service with Buffalo. He played
only twelve games and amassed a bat
ting average Of .2s7. lie was dropped
by Buffalo. however, and Montreal took
him on. He took part in eighty games
in 1908 md batted .204 Two years was
his limit in Montreal and then he was
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
By H. c. HAMILTON

United Press staff Correspondent.
NEW YORK, July lO-"They never
come back" is phrase that applies only
with reverse English 10 the perform
anccs Of George Gibson and Hans
Wagner, two surviving members Of one
of the National Leagues most famous
remnant winners. Both, after having
been voted out Of the game. are back
there, and are back there with such a
vengeance that they have rooted young
sters out of the lineup.
Gibson's comeback was delayed some
what more than Wagner's. Hans WIS
plaving regularly for the Pirates, while
Gibson was still doing bench duty for
the Giants. The need Of a catcher to
belp Bill Rariden and the unwillingness
Of McGraw 20 use Ernie krcuger, a
vounqster. in the important games the
Giants were then playing, brought Glib
son back to the box scores.
Gibson was turned out Of the Pirate
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
Weinen-FuIfOn Matching GrOiesque

united Press star Correspondent


recently through winning
heavyweight
Harry Pollok loose
shortcomings Of Fulton.
OF scheduled
continually warning Wene
Wenert his hss
Fuon abdomen He warned repeatedly yet he finally lost his
wenert can't beat Fulton He can't make halfway interesting
Harry Pooks cries have become TOO old to be taken seriously by any
bis stable
beating His antics Freddie Welsh deprived Of his title by
this he claimed
unfairly decided against
when together in
while Fulton we'll could not help
announced Buffalo had
tangled Madi
Hugh Full
nothing
feeling weinert punched off his
feet
breadth with Fulton
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10

purchased by Pittsburgh, where he stay
ed until last summer
Gibson was n regular almost 70 the
last day Of his engagement with the
Pirates. One year he caught $50 games,
and that was the Pirates big year OF
1900, when they defeated Detroit in the
worlds series.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
KID BRANDJER Lands
AMONG WIND JAMMERS'

Kid Brandier. who failed 10 meet
Olen Hacke.t at this Office on Satur-
day night after he had challenged
Haokett 10 a match. has addressed
another letter to the sports editor of
THE EVENING JOURNAL. but be-
fore any further recognition is given
him in these columns. Brandjer must
prove himself a real sport and not
shadow boxer.
By the way, who is Kid Brandjer?
Come down boy. and let US feel your
mitt before you take crack at
Hackett
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
AMT
NATURE
WONDERFUL

WORSE LIBRE.
The other day
Our wive gave
Us orders to
Sop in a
Department store
TO buy a clothes
WrInger. 1t was
a sale in the
Basement and brooms
We're on sale too
Right alongside Of
The wringers, and
We were right
In the middle
OF fifty or more
Women trying out
The brOoms, and
Being there was
Worser than a
Bayone. charge.
Because in a
Bayonet charge
They're all going
In one direction.
Between jabs and
Ducks and sidestepp ng
We cot the wringer
And had it sent
Out. When we
Got home Mrs. Wife
said the nut that
Holds the handle
On was missing
So we went hack
Next day and
Told them and
\ phey gave us
One without asking
No questions. Pretty
Nice huh? Some OF
These days we're
Gong up 10 the
Auto accessories dept and
Buy a spark plug,
Then the next
Day wen go back
Hold on there.
Eddiei You're giving
Away our scheme.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
Totals .25 50 So % II IS $3.50
National Leagre.
JOREMAN Easy.

The Bond A. c. defeated foreman
A. c. Saturday by the score of 10 10
&. Manager Goodwin and Captain
Moore wish TO announce that they
have added o their wrecking crew
the Laury brothers of the Elsmere
Church League team. Bond will
tourney to Port Penn Saturday, July
IL. Any one desiring 10 make the
trip by auto with them should see L.
G. Goodwin. No. 704 French street OF
call 14l1-J any time during the day
and ask for Charles Moore.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
RUNS For TIE WEEK.

Runs scored by an teams In tho
American and National Leagues from
Tuesday July 8. to Monday. July 9,
inclusive Only runs scored in
the official averages are counted
Scores of incompiete6 games are not
included. but those Of games OF five
innings OF longer arc found in this
table:
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
PARK A. q. TRIMS FERRTa.

Park A. C.. won its sixth conscious
tive game on Saturday from Ferris
school at Mnrshallton. by the score
of 115. Ferris had three former bigl
league stars IT, their lineup but they
were unable to stop the Park boys.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10

ought 20 be glad because now a few
people know who was bicycle champion.
Fred Fulton has been trying to get
match with Big Jess for two years now
but if lie follows his own precedents, he
will get the match and cold feet
simultaneously.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Amnrfenn Too.run
National League

SCHEDULE FOR TODAY.
American League.
Athletics at Chicago.
Boston az Cleveland.
Washington az Detroit
New York at s.. Louis.
National League.
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia gamesl
Chicago at Brooklyn
st. Louis at New York
Cincinnati at Boston.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
PORT OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

Port Penn and Middletown are trying
to get together in a series Of three ball
camcs. As Port Penn has played twice
AZ Nliddletown the canal town boys want
lNliddletown to give them two home
games. hut mp until this time Middle
town has baked. Port Penn defeated
Aiddletown last year.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
What Do You WanT
10 Know About Sport

Sport EDITOR THE EVENING JOURNAL
SRA is pitching and r playing
first. A is shifted TO first and b sent in
to pitch, can A start pitching againi
II. IL
Wee
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
y Falkenburg has gone back to tho

minors. Cy must be used to tho trip by
this time.
kilbane and Benny Leonard are 10
box six rounds for $4,000. After which
Leonard, no doubt, viii find another
alibi for not rushing 90 the colors.
Frank Kramer, bicycle champion for
Is years has lost his title. Frank
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
BASEBALL STATISTICS
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.

American League.
Athletics, 8; Chicago, 2.
Cleveland. 4; Boston. 3.
New York. 2; St. Louis /.
Washington. s; Detroit. /.
Detroit. 10; Washington, 2.
National League.
Cincinnati, 4; Boston. 0.
New YORK, 3; St Louis. 2.
Other games postponed.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10
FOR BALL SCORES
CALL
D. & A. 50
DELMARYIA 1908
eSE1ORD
T,EIATTEM

Larry Stirlith has been signed. How
could anyone look at Larry's grin and
then find nerve TO sign him.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-07-10

Yes
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04
THE SQUARE DEAL
IChicago Herald ]

Every patriotic American and ev-
cry loyal member of Congress will
welcome the Presidents order pro-
hibiting the faintest suspicion in
politics to influence the exemption
cases of the National Army.
Favor-seeking citizens. it is re-
ported, already had begun to put
pressure on Congressman. Requests
were being sent to the War Depart
ment for special consideration for Il
privileged few. The peremptOry COM
mand issued by President Wilson will
end this budding evil. General Crow
der sent to all the members of Con-
gress a notice saying that the Pres
ident directs the War Department
TO decline to discuss cases pending
on appeal or to entertain any COM
munications, suggestions or addi-
tional evidence or statements con-
cerning them"
That is the spirit of impersonal
fairness which the American people
appreciate. Because of the general
belief that the National Army has
been selected by clean tests of actual
fitness this nation has escaped the
customary wholesale opposition to
the draft. The feeling that the law
was being enforced without favor
has done miracles in the develop
ment of the national morale. Lack
ing such q sense of justice we might
have been a divided people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04
HOW TO REDUCE

Reports from Germany indicate a
general falling off in weight of the
people under war rations. This SIM
pie fact might be put to use by per-
sons who are disturbed by surplus
of flesh and who regard the reducing
process as a medical mystery.
There is no mystery about it. The
body is a machine which burns food
as fuel and stores up the surplus
above what is used for fuel and re-
pairs in the shape of fat. If we eat
a little more than the body requires
we naturally and inevitably put on
flesh. If we eat a little less, we lose
flesh.
There are a few individuals to
whom this doesn't apply. The Lord
seems to have made them to be fat
or thin, and nothing they can do has
any effect. But there are only few
of them. Most of us are fat be-
cause we eat too much and thin be-
cause we don't eat enough. DIR.
Graham Lusk, professor of physiol-
ogy in Cornell Medical College, has
estimated that If a person each day
eat a butter ball, weighing a third of
an ounce, in excess of his food re-
quirements. he will put on nine
pounds of weight in year. The same
result would come from drinking a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04
SONS OF OUR FATHERS

We are the sons of our fathers
Passionate, free and bold:
Bred of the storm of battle,
Cast in their mighty mold;
Proud of their ancient glory,
Strong with their ancient might,
Reared with their winning
story
Sung in our ears at night,
And we, as the sons of our fathers,
Must live by the ancient light.
Our fathers they smote the forest,
Our fathers they bridged the sea;
Our fathers came down and built the
town
Where the myriad peoples be.
One hand on the sword hilt riding,
And one to labor withal.
They loved and fought and they won,
God wot!
A place and a home for all.
And We as the sons of our fathers
Must follow the ancient call.
Our fathers bequeathed us honor
And the glory of toll and song,
And the deathless joy of longing,
And hearts for the battle strong:
And our faith. and our land. and our
women,
And the children that round us
rise.
And by Gods grace we will purge
OF wrong, lest their glory dies,
That fairer land than our fathers
planned
May for our children rise
Hugh j. Hughes in Watchman-
Examiner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04
Patriotic AgricuIturist

John Armstrong Herman. the law
/ yer and traveller, has written the fol-
lowing observations while on a tour
OF the Garden of the Land" the
wonderful farming region of Penn
syiNania, few days ago:
PENNSYLVANIA, from colonial times
onward in days of stress, Gas are
the present days) been singu-
larly dependable anG patriotic. To-
day she leads her sister states i'm the
enrolment of volunteers in the Reg
uIar ARMY and nowhere in the Fed
eral domain have women shown
greater self-sacrifice in their devo-
| lon and efficient work for the armies
OF our allies, and for the great Army
our country is now raising for the
cause of individual liberty and
worldwide fraternity.
our Commemorative precious
heritages-Nalley Forge and Gettys-
purS-are incentives to our people
! so taat frequently we see our women
IN addition tc their other countrys $
tasks, working IN gardens and fields
- EpTther the all-important food
supply
Travelling few days ago. my
itnerant neighbor told me of an
aErculturist, an humble Pcnnsylva-
MIA woman, about to celebrate her
eightieth birthday. which should
/ have currency.
Il give it as the Keystone's chal-
lenge to American citizens as diver
! gent as are the denizens of the rich
pampas of the middle west. the bun
galow dwellers who sovereign the
/ fertile acres hard by Los Angeles,
and the learned farmers who pet.
nurse and cajole into generous crops
the celery fields that margin Bos-
ton.
My octogenarian heroine lives in
a neiShboring bailiwick CT wish Har-
risburS could claim her)-and she
1 is possessed of a small home and a
/ ha.f acre of land. For years on this
Ealf acre she has earned a comfort
able living, and has made the last
payment or her house and lot. She
has laid irrigation pipes so that her
! crops might not suffer through
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04

drouth, thus often raising two or
three crops a season from the same
land, and now that food is so much
needed. she feels that it is her pa
triotic duty to work with greater sue
cess if possible. Regularly she goes
to market and should unsold veget-
ables remain in her basket, on her
way home she presents them to a
nearby hospital.
During the hot summer days, be-
cause of her age, she avoids the ar
dor of the sun:-but when the night
falls from . of the clock in the even
ing until of the clock in the morn
ing she often labOrs unceasingly-by
the light of an arc lamp.
She has filial sons and daughters.
4 son made the ATst payment on her
house and lot-Dut to her children's s
protests that she accept their sup
port and rest-she replies that she is
hardy and strong-and when they
need help-to call on her-but while
the war lasts she will labor on.
Il repeat the tale without frills
or furbelows as it was told to me. l
looked the narrator in the eyes and
| thought | saw truth imaged there.
If he painted the lily and gilded
the gold he hath histrionic talents
of an order in which his Satanic
Majesty has acquired the reputation
of being facile princeps.
THE name of my heroine is Mrs.
Stapf. She resides in We anciente
cite of the red rose, ycfept Lancas-
ter. 1t is meet and proper that this
woman, great among farmers, should
live in the garden spot of our COM
mon country-a county that has been
the native or adopted home of heroes
whose names are in our schoolbooks
Fulton the ancestral inventor of
the Lusitania; Reynolds of Gettys-
burg Immortality, and Thaddeus Ste
vens, who. barring "Bobbie" Burns,
was greatest of modern Commoners.
who will gainsay the assertion
that the Independent old woman
wedding her vegetable garden in the
silent hours of the night in the light
of the arc lamps not in the hero
class, too"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04
EDITORIAL COMMENT

A few Swedish ENJOYS will soon be
trying to find their way home with
out getting their feet wet.-New
York World.
The soap box was more useful
when it held soap.-New York
World.
Italy should have no difficulty in
stretching Its national food,-Boston
Transcript.
The Swedish government should
get its grub from the people it saws
wood for.-New York Evening Sun.
The Russian provisional govern
ment might have a chance if it could
provide more provisions.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
Mr.. Hoover says he has no power
to set n price on meat. Then he isn't
as big a man as our butcher.-Dallas
News.
Lots of men would he willing to
stand a tax on war-profits If pro-
hibitive tax could be put on war
ophets.-Nashville Southern Lum-
herman.
Hearst has been boosting a song
entitled Send Me Away with n
Smile" Referred to the Department
of Justice.-New York Evening Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04
A BIT OF OUTSIDE HELP

One night Mike attended a social
affair given by some friends in the
second story of the town hall, and
became convivial to the extent of
sweet singing and dancing steps.
At a late hour there was a noise
like somebody's catastrophe break
ing loose, and Mike was found at the
foot of the stairs.
"Begorra, Moike, an is thot you?'
concernedly asked n friend, hurrying
to his side and assisting him to his
feet.
"Shure it's me-" answered Mike.
'Who ilse do Oi look loike besoides
mesilf?"
How in the worruld did it hap
pen ?" questioned the friend. trying
to hold Mike in a perpendicular po-
stion with one hand and put on his
hat with the other. Did yez fall
down stairs?"
"Shure OF fell down stairs" was
the philosophical rejoinder of Mike.
But it's all roight. Oi was comm
down, anyhow" Philadelphia Tele-
graph
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04
NEUTRALS GET LESS

The latest available government
report of foreign trade. shows that
there was a decline of S79,000,O0O
in exports to neutral countries ad-
jacent to Germany in July of this
year, as compared to July, 1916.
Compared with June of this year,
these neutrals in July got $9,000,000
less goods. The only neutral which
showed an increase in imports from
the United States was the Neither
lands. The value in that instance
was s5,432,00O, as compared to
$2.C07,000 in June. On the other
hand. shipments to Denmark de-
ciined S7,000,000 and the drop in
Norwegian shipments was more than
100000.
As the governments embargo on
shipments to neutrals did not go in
to effect until the middle of July, the
figures for August will show even
greater declines.
1t is worth noting however. that
the shipments to Allied countries
during July also fell off to the ex-
tent of SIS, 900, 900 as compared with
June. but there was a gain of little
less than $500, 100000 for the first
seven months of this year, in COM
parison with the first seven months
of 1916.-Buffalo Express.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04

~ OLONEL BEARY made an ad-
I mirable address before the
Pennsylvania Society at its
monthly session ut the Harrisburg
club. He eloquently pointed out the
important part which Pennsylvania
has played in the wars of the coun-
try and aroused the patriotic re-
sponse Of all present.
We are beginning to awake to the
seriousness of the war on which we
have entered and it is we'll that we
study the past with 4 view to pre-
pairing ourselves for what is ahead.
This must be a war of great sacrifice
and we can no longer deceive our
selves as to the enormous task
which confronts the Republic. Those
who have hoped for sudden end of
the awful struggle are simply ex-
pressing the natural yearning of q
peaceful people. but conditions are
not such as to justify a reasonable
belief in an early settlement of the
conflict.
We must grid on our armor and
give the last atom of patriotic de-
votion to the battering down of a
monster that has engulfed the world
in bloodshed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04
TREES FOR CAPITOL PARK

DLANS have been consummated
by the Board of Public Grounds
and Buildings for the perma-
nent treatment of the Capitol Park
zone, and it is expected that the
grading necessary will be started
without delay so that there may be
planted this fall many trees that
shall have a years growth even be-
fore the completing of the streets
and sidewalks as outlined by the
landscape architects.
A general scheme of the planting,
with definite specifications as to the
size and the height of trees, will be
adopted as a guide to all who shall
participate in this important phase
of the park development. Governor
Brumbaugh has on several occasions
indicated a desire to have the vari-
Gus cities and towns of the State
plant community trees under some
uniform plan, and it is probable a
statement will be issued by the Board
of Public Grounds and Buildings
covering this particular subject
There would thus be a Scranton tree,
Ia Lancaster tree, and trees repre-
scnting other cities and towns in the
Capitol Park.
Practically all of the buildings
have been removed from the area
cast of the Capitol, and there is moth
ing in the way of going ahead with
the permanent treatment. Messrs.
Drummer and Manning, the distin-
guished landscape architects. who
are collaborating in the reforming
of the park, have agreed upon the
lines as a result of recent survey
of the whole property, and it is
understood that the granite coping
along Third and Walnut streets will
be placed before cold weather, so
that the present sidewalks on both
these streets may be added to the
present width of the highway.
Attention has been given to the
safeguarding of all the trees which
may be saved in the regarding of the
park and 1t is understood that few
trees of Importance will be disturb
ed. There is great interest in this