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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-15

the general construction expense was
s2S.054.7S. The water system to ir-
rigate the course cost Sl6.424.20 and the
drinking water system s5.299.04, a grand
total of s75.s25.O9 The grounds cost
s5o.s57.s0 and the total cost OF the land,
buildings course. water System and
equipment was $166,9S4.42.
The most expensive fairway was the
third which cost S2.0os.1O and the least
expensive the fourth, the cost being
s133.9O This the short 1l0-yard quarry
hole.
The most expensive green on the
course is the seventeenth. which is the
last and the longest of the one-shot
holes. Tile drainage added greatly to
its cost which is given as sl.1s5.49
10000 for Fertilizers
The cost Of fertilizers Is given at
sa.51s37. but to this should he added
four carloads of peat moss four carloads
Of .humus and four carloads of sand for
the greens Eliminating these last MI
tons of manure were used. 353 tons or
humus 70 tons of peat moss. lA.nnn
pounds of sheep manure, 10000 pounds
Of bone meal 965 tons of limestone grits
and 356 tons of sand.
Seventy-two bushels or 1900 pounds
Of grass seed we're sown on the greens
and they were used In this proportion {:
/ Sixty per cent of Rhode island bent and
forty per cent Of Chewing's Ped Fescue
Some Grass Seed Bill
| Through. the fairways we're sown 42o
bushels or io.5oO pounds Of grass seed
the mixture used being 25 per cent of
! Rhode Island bent. % per cent of Chew
irg's Red Fescue. 40 per cent of re-
| cleaned red top and 10 per cent OF
/ Kentucky Blue. Twenty bushels Of seed
wore sown on the trees. The entire
cost of grass seed was S4.a63.sO.
There is a lot Of other data and all OF
! this is available for golf cluhs On ap-
r,ication to Mr.. lIibbs. Every bit Of
cost is shown IN detail and the report Is
worthy Of perusal by clubs contemplating
construction work.
Fine Golf at Merton
Max Marston and sydney Shars" ood
defeated Norman Fl. Maxwell and
| Walter Reynolds in a nineteen-hole
match at the Merton Cricket Club Satur-
day. Marston said after the match that
II was one of the best contested affairs
he had ever seen. There were seven
birds in all and going out Marston and
Sharswood played every hole in pal
I ngureS. coming nome tneN hdu I"l VI
birds for every hole. Walter Reynolds
PLAYED exceptionally fine golf with -four
birds, the other three players getting one
| each.
The best ball Of the four was sixty.
three and Of the winners sixty-seven.
Yesterday afternoon over the same
course Miss Mildred Caverly, the loca
champion. paired with Marston. defeated
Mrs Ronald n. Barlow and Sharswood
The match ended on the sixteenth hole
when rain stopped for further play.
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HARD TASK TO
SELECT WIND-UP
Six Headliners Will Appear
in Three Big Bouts at
Shibe Park
RECOGNIZE pop O'BRIEN
By JAMES s. CAROLAN

Which bout is the windup? That will
be a difficult question to answer. on
paper. the three al-star bouts that will
comprise the program at Shibe Park to-
morrow are headliners. Each bout is
good enough for a windup at any first
class boxing emporium Greb and Bart
field were good enough to draw a s12,-
600 house in Buffalo recently. while
George CLANCY and frankie callahan
played to a capacity house at the Olym-
pia last spring. Lew Tender and Irish
Patsy Cline will go on last and haye
the windup position on the bill, but any
of the three bouts is capable of filling
the windup position.
Cline and Tender appeared at the Ma
tional last April in a special show. The
night was a stormy one. but this did
not prove enough to keep the fans from
packing the South Eleventh street arena.
Now that there is this special show.
plus two high-class attractions, the pro-
gram at Shlbe Park Is. certain to be a
banner one. 1t is the best thing offered
In pugilistlc way this season.
No Congestion at Gates
Every arrangement has been made to
handle the crowd Promoter Rains has
made special arrangements in the inter-
csts of the fans. He is anxious TO please
every one and send away no dissatisfied
patron. Said Promoter Rains
II am very anxious to take care of
the crowd In order to do so | have ar
ranged to have twelve gates in opera
ton and all thrown open as early as
6 o'clock There will be accommoda-
t'ons for 1000. and the 81 fans will
q
those holding box-seat pasteboards.
There will he all kinds Of ushcrs. as
I will have 100 sailors from Pier 10.
Vine street wharf. in charge Of fou,
officers. help direct tho fans to their
seats. 7 can say the advance sale has
been heavy and the financial success of
the show is assured
Recognition for Pop" O'Brien
Frank I"Pop") O'Brien vcterap ring
official. at last has been recognized. The
well-known referee win act as match
maker and referee of the new National
A. A.. which opens the 191S-t?Ia season
on August "a. For the last five years
he has been the referee at the Olympia
4. A. President William n. Recap and
Treasurer Harry Donaghy will assis,
O'Brien.
The ser> ices Of this veteran ring au-
| thority have been in demand all season
He is one of the licensed officials in New
Jersey and was named the official ref
cree of all bouts in Baltimore. The
stopping of all boxing shows in the
! Monumental city for the duration Of the
war Is all that kept him away from Bal.
! timore
| Frank t"Por'D O'Brien was tho third
man in the ring at the Leonard kilhant
| bout year ago and win be the arblter
at tomorrow nights program at Shibc
| Park
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The double header between L. q. l. and
wheeler was called off on account Of wet
grounds 1t will be played later in tho sea
son. The Sellers-Link Belt game was also
postponed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-15
Record of Week
in Major Leagues

The weeks record Of the major
leagues of games won ond lost, with
runs, hits, errors. men left on bases
and runs scored by opponents. includ-
inx the games Of Saturday. Is as fol-
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Kauff Will PLAY on Camp Team

ChiIiicothe. o., July benny Kauf<
the heavy hitter of the New Yor{
Giants. donned the army khaki q fey
days ago at Camp Sherman, near here
He had to go through the usual procoG
of innocuation on his arrival. {s
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Unleashed British Strain to
Land Knockout on Tot.
tering Foe
TEUTONS GATHER
BROKEN DIVISIONS
Hand to Hand Battles as
Haig's Men Recapture
Villages
KILLS SIXTY
Victory Streams Forward,
Passing Tide Of Wounded
and Prisoners
KILLS SIXTY

decourt, was asked whether he
thought we would break through the
Drocourt- -Queant line.
mo" he said, stiffly; Germany
wants it."
Yes" said an English officer, but
Germany wanted you, and yet we have
taken you"
This seemed to leave the German
officer without further argument.
British troops today south of the
Canadians had a difficult operation at
the outset holding Hendecourt and
Riencourt. They had to form up be-
hind the Canadians, then follow on
and swing south to mop up" the
ground in the triangle formed by the
Hindenburg support line as a base
with a little wooded copse as it's apex
This they did, walking down the legs
of the triangle; but plckets of the
enemy remained in between with nests
VI iAoNhihS ullS, "lliNIl lllSy oSl ' GU
with the utmost resolution. The
copse was a source of trouble in the
way, and Lancashire did not have the
help of the tanks, as most Of them
at that time were on the Canadian
front However, all objectives were
taken this morning and our observers
reported the tanks far ahead of our
line.
The Canadians had hard fighting
across the Arras. Cambria road, espe-
cially at certain roads near ruined
factory and a place called Brioche
farm.
1t is too early to tell the result of
the battle, but it is stin in progress
and as I have said. the enemy is
apparently pouring up men for coun.
ter-attacks. But as far as the first
phase goes, we may claim full sue.
cess: for we have broken the Dro-
court line and taken many hundreds
Of prisoners and certainly some guns.
Many Canadians told me that they
had passed German batteries abandon.
ed by their gunners, so that those
ought to fall into our hands in another
severe blow to the enemy; and if we
can hold against their fierce counter.
attacks it must jeopardize the
strength of the Hindenburg line and
perhaps force them to a greater re.
treat.
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Winning of Terney-Sorny
and Leuilly Makes Big Diff
ference in Situation
FOES HIGHWAYS IN VIEW
German Supply Roads and
Conveys Now Under Man
gins Observation
By G. H. PERRIS
Special Cable TO Erening Public Ledger

Copyright J9Is. bv Ne,o York Times Co.
with the French Armies. Sept. 4.
The last stage of the victorious ap-
proach of Mangin's army to the southern
corner of the great German line of de-
fense about BaffauX makes an immense
difference in the situation. We have
slowly been climbing by converg1ng
routes up what the soldiers call the
elacis on the outer slopes and breaking
down, one by one the outlying fortitlca-
tions of the vasr natural citadel that
has been Strengthened with all the re-
sources of most modern military science
If. as the Cologne Gazette says, this
defense has been for the enemy the hit
terest battle of the war. its difficulties
for the French may 'eadily h" admitted
In such case il is only the most per
sistent valor in all ranks and the
shrewdest dispositions by the army COM
mand that can win the road TO victory
We are now atop the outer wall OF
the fortress on the west front, LeulIlN
to Terny-Sorny. and on the south above
Cufies and Crouy The former posi-
ton is the more important because it
gives us henceforth extended views over
the German rear and supply roads.
Standing on the promontory above
Ieuilly you look across the Ailette right
up the valley between ST Gobain noun
tain and the Chemin- -des-Dames. Anigny
ia below YOU The Two towers of Laon
Cathedral rise from the northwest horl-
zon, and between these points you have
the highways on which the German
conveys depend under full observation
Hill 172, just south of Terny-Sorny,
the highest point of the scissors moor
lands, which was carried by famous
body of zouaves and other French troops
over the dead bodies of part of the
Prussian Guard. gives a different pros
pect Looking back to the southwest.
you see swelling slopes cut by the deep,
narrow gullies by which we mounted
step by bloody step from the Aisne
valley. Forward to the east you face
the terrible battlefield where in April
Of last year from the mouth of a shell
tering quarry.
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BULGAR REBELS
BLOW UP PALACE
Beginning of Revolution
Within Next Two Weeks
Is Predicted
ARMY DISCIPLINE LAX
Soldiers at Nish Try to Stop
Flour Being Shipped to
Germany
ARMY DISCIPLINE LAX
Special Cable to Epening Public Ledger

Special Gable to Evening Public Ledger
Copyright. 1918. bv New York Times CO.
London. Sept. 4.
The London Daily Nails correspondent
at Berne says: "A parsonage in touch,
with Bulgarian affairs informs me that
he last night received a private report
to the effect that revolutionary elements
recently succeeded in blowing up part of
the royal palace in Sofia.
Unless I am very much mistaken,'
continued my informant, another fort
night will see the beginning of Bull
garisn revolution
The Daily Mails correspondent reports
that the great victories of the Allies In.
France have cont tributed to encourage in
the Bulgarian army that war weariness
which has for long time permeated it's
ranks. Troops openly hold political
meetings in their camps, at which their
officers have to wink.
regiment was holding one such meet
ing recently when it's colonel appeared
on the scene. Absolutely no notice was
taken Of him, and no soldier saluted.
The colonel hesitated. and then went or
pretending to have noticed nothing. De-.
scrtions are regular.
Some time ago from the Allied posi-
tions the noise of cannonade was
heard coming from the enemy lines, and
observers could see shells bursting. The
Allied artillery was quite silent. and 1t
was only later that the cause of the
phenomenon was explained by the re--.
port of some deserters from the Bull
garian side that a large party of their
comrades, while trying to escape, had
been betrayed by some one, and that
German artllerymen had put up small
barrage to prevent their leaving the Bull
garian trenches.
The London Times's Salonica corre-
spondent, under date of August 26, wires
that Bulgarian deserters report that on
August 7, at the railway station at
Nish, Bulgarian soldiers tried to pre-
vent the departure to Germany of four.
carloads of flour, and that a fight en-
sued which resulted in the death Of four
Germans and one Bulgarian.
Fantastic retail prices are ruling In
Bulgaria for tin and copper. 1t appears
from a report of one of the deserters,
who the other day was sent to Nish to
buy small quantities of these metals.
which were required for refining regl-
mental kitchen utensils, that he had
to pay $50 levas per kilogram for COPS
per and $50 levas per kilogram for TIM
These prices would be equivalent to
$500 and $4,000 per short ton. res
spectively.
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Ruined Calvary in CrOisilles

Yet there is one feature of the
landscape to which the naval men
turned their heads when they marched
up to battle. 1t is the only thing left
standing in all this ruin behind our
lines with some character and men
acing beyond a mere ruin. In the
center of Croisilles, which is quite
destroyed SO that hardly one brick
stands whole upon another, there is a
Calvary of life size. The figure Of
Christ has been smashed from the
cross and lies with face upward on q
little hillock. but the Madonna Is still
left, almfst unscarred, ! think, and
ne ~ e Je9s en11 ost
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Small groups of prisoners passed
and passed. so that we must have
gone we'll beyond that 10000 and in
wire Enclosures stood new arrivals who
had drifted down after night and were
now under guard. Miserable looking
men were sleeping themselves into
forgetfulness of war, or pacing up and
down like animals in cage OF
munching food which we provided.
They were very hungry, many of
them having gone several days with
out supplies owing to the chaos and
disorga nization behind the German
line.
In one camp not far from Arras
there are today several thousands of
prisoners. belonging to ten different
divisions, and looking at them one
might we'll wonder whether at last one
might be justified in believing that
the German army is beginning to
crack. 1t is only just beginning and
is not near, the breaking point yet
but the events of the last day and
night reveal greater weakness in our
enemy than most Of us had dared to
hope for, or believe.
In the north they are still drawing
back in Flanders. and on the other
SIDE Of Peronne the Australians are
gaining much of our old ground.
Vrxolo German armies on{ krt1o 1poulu
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Prisoners Betray Fact That
German Army Is Begin.
ming to Break
NAVAL BRICADES HIT
AT CAMBRIA ROAD
Pursuers Sweep Wilderness of
Chalk Trenches and
Ruin of War
LAND
Enemy Abandons Last Stores
of Ammunition in Hur.
ried Flight .
LAND

Continued from Page One
Sixty second division and others
fought in clouds of poison gas and
under storms of shells.
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English troops. who were working
with the Canadians on the left are
reported to have taken the village
of Etain Monday night with sixty
prisoners, and yesterday morning
their patrols went into Recount Wood,
east of that. encountering the enemy
rear guards. but not meeting stub
born resistance anywhere, so that they
went beyond to a high plateau a
thousand yards further. The enemy
shelled the village of Recount as soon
as our men were in it-so quickly
that it is clear his gunners expected
us to arrive, and their fighting line
withdrew some distance back, leaving
a wider NoMan's Land for our men
to cross.
1t was reported that German
across the Arras- Cambria road not
far from their rear guard. and our
guns found this place for their target
Meanwhile West Lancashires, naval
brigades, and Lowland Scots. in the
Seventeenth Corps below the Cana
dians were advancing steadily. I told
yesterday how the West Lancashires
attacked in the morning, in line with
the Canadians, after much hard fight
ing on previous days, and then swung
southwark and cleared out the
triangle between the Hindenburg sup
port line and a wood where many
pockets of the enemy remained with
machine-gun nests, giving much
trouble by their crossfire. They did
this with dogged courage, and in one
place south of Bois-de- -Bouches the
marines of our naval brigades helped
them crush one of these wasp nests.
The naval men came into action
determined not to get thrown back.
but to go far forward after their ad-
ventures of last March, when they
had to fall back before the enemy
forces across the Somme battlef1elds,
where I met them fighting bitter
rear-guard action. They had to
march far over ground which I
travelled yesterday, so I knew the
look of it and the smell of it, and the
horror of it all.
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gesture of pity for the evil that has
been done.
I write these things so that people
who don't see them may have in their
minds eye the scenes through which
our men are passing, yet no words
of mine can give more than a faint,
blurred image of what this desolation
Is really like.
For miles our naval brigades
marched through this until ,hey
reached their line of action south of
the Canadians and below Bouche
Wood. AS / have said some Royal
Marines turned aside to go TO the help
of the West Lancashires, but two
other bodies of marines and Ansons,
followed by Hawkes., brakes ano
Hoods, went forward to their first OBJ
jective, swinging southeastward in
order to come down to the valley of
the Hirondelle, or Agaghe valley, as 1t
is sometimes called, in order to block
1t below lnchy. Here they were
checked by machine-gun fire from
German strongholds. but were sue
cessful in destroying these posts and
passed on.
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TO Cut Cambria Road

Later in the morning the naval
brigades advanced again below Inchy
toward the Bapaume- Cambria road
Their object as I said before, was to
cut this artery of German retreat If
they are successful, it is almost GER
tain that they will hamper the move
ment of the German forces in sharp
retreat further south, Ind that they
will prevent the withdrawal of the
heavy transports. The enemy sue
ceeded in getting away most of his
guns, but has been forced to blow up
some of his howitzers, which are now
behind our lines, with their crews as
prisoners.
The work of our gunners in getting
forward to keep pace as far as pos,
sible with the infantry advance has
been very fine, and | saw today how
our batteries We're straining every
nerve to follow up over all this wild
roadless land. Some Of our sixty
Founders, which are heavy and slow.
going weapons, were already so far
forward that at noon they opened
rapid fire on the crossroads outside
Cambria, so that this highway must
have been a terror to the crowded Ger
man transports struggling back in
their retreat.
German prisoners coming back
through this ground watched our gun
teams gloomily. understanding the
meaning and marvel of all this move
ment toward their lines, where CHEEKY
young gunners' officers called to their
men to carry on and make haste after
the boche, and gunner colonels, rushed
forward to protect new positions and
transport men ,tethered their horses in
fields from which the enemy had gone
only a little while ago, leaving fright
full litter and filth behind him.
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Miles of Wilderness

Behind our present front, which is
moving forward so quickly, there is
for many miles a stricken wilderness.
There are no landmarks here, as even
at least there are rivers and roads
and natural features upon which the
imagination may fasten for remem-
brance, but here beyond Neuville-
Vitasse and Boiry and Croise.ies there
is nothing but a landscape of bare
monotony rising and falling slightly
from one slope to another. without
high roads cutting across it, without
a river or a valley to break its lines,
without even ruins more than rubbish
heaps of brick which once were ham
let's.
Trenches marked by hummocks of
white. chalk. zigzag over this in
fernal desolation, where tangles OF
barbed wire, all rusted to the color
of withered bracken: piles of aban-
doned shells cleaning wet in the rain,
thousands of German stick bombs,
gas masks, helmets, boots, rifles. shat.
tered gun limbers, lorries slashed to
pieces by explosives, and huts broken
to match-wood are flung about be-
tween tumble down dugouts, desented
gun pits, overturned blockhouses,
dead horses, and deep shell pits.
Through this plague-stricken land,
mile after mile to the far horizon, our
men are marching and our guns are
going up and our tents are pitched
and our wounded come walking down
Even to them it has become familiar.
so that they don't turn their heads
to study how this wilderness of death
is changed to different tones of evil
or of grimness when the sunlight
breaks through the rainclouds and
washes it all with its pale gold light,
revealing more sharply a detail of it
all and how it is darkened when the
sun is hidden by a black mass of
clouds piled up above the distant
slopes.
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CEDAR GOTH q CEDAR AvENus
REID in LESS THAN
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COLISEUM Market Bet. seth a s0'A
Pauline Frederick in HER FINAL
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Beyond Help of Guns

They passed beyond range and help
of their guns for a time into the zone
of open warfare, having to rely utterly
upon their own rifles and machine
guns for fire power. Their machine
guns did terrible work among the
enemy. One team fired 10000 rounds
at the retreating Germans and many
men fell under this sweeping fire.
Very cunningly and rapidly our naval
machine.gun crews worked their way
forward with patrols and small
bodies Of infantry, enfilading the Ger
man position and getting their targets
After all the first objectives had
been taken, one brigadier went around
his forward line, examined the prop
lem ahead and, satisfied that his men
could go further without grave peril
ordered them to advance again and
keep on, as long as they did not lose
touch with each other or meet trouble
in Overwhelming odds. Darkness came
but they did not stop, and still crept
on slowly and cautiously into the
enemy's country until dawn came,
when they found themselves on the
west side of Inchy with Queant and
Pronville below them. and a valley
curving down southeastward
Their duty was TO block the valley
and capture Queant by this turning
movement from the north. According
to this plan they spread out and went
down the slopes to the valley on the
east side of Queant and Pronvllle
closer to tn am than had been intended
at first, but achieving the same result
All the Germans fled from Queant
before their arrival. panic-strcken at
the knowledge that we were behind
their lines and bearing down on them.
A small garrison of seventy men was
still holding out in Pronville, and
these surrendered to a man when they
found themselves surrounded
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BEI MONT 6aD ABOVE MARKET
JACK PICKFORD in tom
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III IMR0 FRONT ST. GIRARD AVE.
yOWloO Jumbo Junction on Frankford s'L.s
CHARLES RAY in THE CLAWS
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COLONIAL ''ai a.is 8 MsPismG0d sna s:Is p ASs'' n
Douglas Fairbanks in %HoTSD o,nsDccoo