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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-11

When it seemed as if the players ana the representatives of the national com mission, Garry Herrmanp and Ban John- son, were hopelesslI deadlocked and the eurtailed baseball year would f1zzie out iu strike. Harry Hooper, the Red Sox captain, called the turn.
 We will play he said, acting as spokesman for both teams. Not be- cause we think we are getting a fair deal, because we are not. But we'll play for the sake of the game, for the sake of the Iublic which has always given Us it's loyal support, and for the sake or the wounded soldiers and sailors who are In the granls tand waiting for us.
 The players, even before the start of the series had manifested dissatisfaction over the division of the money and this unrest has grown greatly as the games progressed. with small attendances on the average for the first four contests, in which the players share the gate re- ceipts. Both teams insisted that the Win ners had been guaranteed s2Gc each ana the losers si40o But the sharp falling off in attendance had made 1t unlikely that tfe players would get anywhere near this
 
 tain Hoorer, for the Red So- ahd Leslie Mann fer the Cubs.
 or a while the representatives of both slies argued over ihe telephone, put when thL time for botn teams tc take the field for ,iacIice found ti1rm still Tn their dressing .pons in heatet discussion, the national omn ission representatives hdr- 1ied out to Fenway park to learn rom the arrangements what the team members had decided to do.
 If the players intend to strike, mak- ing it necessary to call off the game, it is only fair to the public for them 10 notify the management to stop the sale of tickets before any additional thou sands come in, Chairman HerHahh oA i the commission said
 No such announcement was made, now ever. The players still tried to im- press on the commission the justice or their cause, while the commission polnted out that the matter was out of thelr hands, and that any change Tn the dl- vision of the proceeds would nave 10 De submitted to the club owners for rati- fcation.
 Shortly before the time for calling the game Chairman Hermann stated the position of the commission positively
 .erhe commission cannot change the rule" he said. 'Jte was proposed and agreed to by both leagues, and it is up to them If there is strike we shall end the series at this point and divide the money that was coming to the players equally among the club owners Ana we slalt also take care of the players. share of the Red Cross contributions"
 MT. Herrmanns words only led to fur ther argument, which was leading mo- whefe, when Harry Hooper, one of the most popular veterans of the game, turned to his fellow players and reminded them of the crowd waiting outside. He put the situation up to them forcibly and in a few words, and all hands agreed
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THREATENED STRIKE RECALLS RULING OF
 THE BIC 'COMM|SH'
Players Apparently Without Rights in Demanding a
 Larger Slice of the Big Melon

New York September 1o.-Aocording to the official bulletin of the national commission containing the rules and regulations of the worlds series of 1918. the players share of the game receipts was to be divided under the following rule;
 'rhe division of the players pool, to-wit: Sixty per cent of the receipts of the first four games after the de- duction of the allotment of 10 per cent to the national commission, shall be mado in accordance with amended par agraph of section 1T of the Joint rules and regulations for the conduct of the world series as promulgated January ', 1918, provided that the ag- gregate amount equals or exceeds s152,S94.4S. on which the basis the fixed amounts of $2000 for each member of the winning team and s1400 for each player of the losing team was com puted
 ''If for any reason the players fund for 1918 shall be less than s152.S944S the respective shares of the players participa ating shall be scaled in the proportion and to the extent of the de- crease in the aggregate players rev enue of 1918 as compared with 1s17"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-11

The overseas service flag has arr rived. It is made in the regular oo- long shape with a groundwork of red, having target-like center composed of alternating bands of white and blue with a white center. If intended to honor only one man, the red star IS placed in the white center. If more than one,~ the other stars are placed inside the white band.
 The idea behind the new flag is sim ilar to that which makes the war and navy departments put a little gold-praid- ed "" shaped chevron on the right hand cuff of the man who has been lover there.''
 The flag shows that the man for whom it is displayed has finished his training period and has left the shores Of America behind him to do his Dit toward making the world safe for de- rnocracy on the battlefields of France and Flanders.
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SERIES NOTES

Catcher William J. Killifer is like ,ly to- catch the entire series. An in- jury to his shoulder kept him out of the Philadelphia vs Boston series in 1915
 In 1913 with the record a victory and defeat for the Athletics and the Giants, Joe Bush wen the third game, to 2, for the Athletics.
 Boston Red Sox has won every worlds series they have played
 Boston Red Sox in 1912 beat the Giants four games out of eight,-so one game being a tie. Boston beat Phila- delphia four games out of five in 1915. and duplicated the performance against the Brooklyn team in 1916. Boston Red Sox's share of the gate money in 1916 was $3910.26; Brooklyn, $2S34S2.
 was october g, 1916, when Red Sox 'sBabeH Ruth opposing Smith as pitcher.
 The greatest aggregate attendance at a worlds series was in 1917, when the White Sox-Giants six games at tracted 1s6654 the receipts belng l S425,S7S,
 The White Sox vs. Giants players last year shared in s152,SSS.5S. White Sox park capacity crowd last year was 32,000. | The total of Canadian trade union !! ists who have volunteered and been 1 accepted for overseas service since the outbreak of the war is 26.416.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-11
SPORTS
 LoCAL-BY WIRE
Corbett's Daily Letter
 On Great Sport Topics
nr IAMns ;. coRpEr,r

About that time the former owner of the bike decided that waiting for new bike on the s1 a week basis wasn't to his liking So he demanded the entire sum at once. Ralph explained that he couldn't rroduce.
 You pay me the whole amount within one week or I'll give you a alarmed gooo icking.' was the threat. l It worried Ralph because the other fe- low was in the Slong pants period of life, and Ralph was but a knickerbockered kid. | While trying to devise ways and means I to get the money to placate his creditor Ralph noticed that bike race was to pc staged in his home town-with cash prices for winners. Ralph got an entry blank paid the entrance fee, and went into training, which consisted of long hours of pedalling after his working hours at night and more pedalling at sunrise the next day,
 Mounted on the onetime "hopelessiy smashed" bicycle, DePalma entered the <, race-a l2-hour contest-and won first prize.
 1 My victory decided me that there was money in bicycle racing, and so l went into it,n relates DePalma.
 As bicycle rider DePalma became sensation But he deserted that game for motor cycling when it was in vogue. I Later he decided to enter the auto racing l game and his success since his advent in l9O,-has been nothing short Of phc- nomenal
 In Il years DePa1fna has won over sW
 races, innumerable cups and trophies, almost $l,Qo0,0oO in cash and holds more records than any driver that ever pI- loted racing car over road of speed-
 way. :.
 Auto racing is wonderful game, declares the speed marvel of the world.
 Tt brings t thrill and exhilaration thai
 words cannot describe. It's dangerous
 sport one that forces man to flirt with
 death always. But nothing in the world
 compares with it andsI am hopeful that
 can stay with it for many years to come
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Snarling Cubs Sink Claus h Sox

Ralph DePalma. the most remarkable entry into the racing game to a bicycle accident in the years of his youth.
 DePalma. when youngster, had job as errand boy for a groceryman. one day he borrowed the bicycye of boy friend so that he could make rush de- livery Ralph assured his pal that he knew all about the mysteries of bicycle locomotion. But Ralph didn't He never had been on bike before.
 'I imagined that it was very easy thing to ride one," relates DePalma. Il led the bike up to curbstone and mounted it. The place I picked out was on the crest of a hill. l pedaled few times and then lost by balance. The machine wobbled and started down the hill Then it turned flip flop. So did I. and so did my grocery basket. We all landed in heap. The basket was smashed, so was the bike, and l was pretty we'll banged up, too.'
 Ralph carried the bike back to the gro- cery shop hunted up the boy and told him what had happened.
 You'll get me a new bike or I'll bust your head" threatened the boy.
 "I haven't got the money to buy you a new one all at once, but if you'll give me time I'll pay you $1 a week out of my wages until you've got enough to buy a rev one,'' volunteered Ralph,
 "All right" the other agreed. And you can keep the old bike. l don't want 1t, now that it's all smashed"
 Ralph inspected the bike thoroughly the next day and decided that it could be put back into shape by considerable repair work and the purchase of some new parts. Ralph got busy. Within two weeks he had ''doctored' the bike back into running order
 And then began to learn how to ride it." explained Ralph. 'I had quite a number of spills before mastered it, but in a short time had developed to poin where I could speed it up fairly fast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-11
National Track and
 Field Championships to
 Be Held September 20

New York A. A. U. will send IF ath- letes to the national track and field championships to be held at the Great Lakes training station stadium out side of Chicago September 20 and 2t.
 Harold Kruger and Clarence Lane, the Hawiians who are touring this country giving swimming perform ances together with Duke Kahanamo- ku, are each 19 years of age. Kahan- amoku is 2S years of age.
 Contrary to the usual custom. no plans for next years light harness racing are talked about. All sports are in condition of uncertainty be- cause of the war.
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l two bases Whiteman popped to Mer- | kie. Strunk darting back to second safe- l ly. McInnis lined to Merkle, who dou. bled up Strunk at second, Hollocher talk ! ing the throw. No runs; one hit; no errors.
 FIFTH INNING l Chicagor Hooper came in and took l Kilifer's short fly. Vaughan struck out' I Shean went behind second to get Flack { grounder and got his man by step No runs; no hits; no errors.E | Boston--Mann gathered In Scotts ny 1 Thomas singled into right field. AgneW hit into double play. Hollocher to PicR to Merkle. No runs no hits; no errors
 SIXTH INNING 1 Chicago--Hollocher singled into center his second hit of the game Mann flew I out to Strunk Paskert walked. Merkle l singled into left field and Hollochel was caught at the plate. Whiteman te I Agnew Paskert reached third re l Merkle first Pick flew out to strunK No runs: two hits; no errors.
 Roston-Jones sent a high fly to Pas kert Hooper flew out to Paskert l Vaughn tossed out Shean at first NV runs; no hits: no errors.
 SEVENTH INNING I r,hica eo-Deal struck out on thre' nitcbad halls. Killifer hit line driv' ;rto Jones hands. The crowd gave Vaughn a big cheer as he came to pa'
 ua had pitched great ball and ~cd tn
 Red Hosed players completely paHieo Vaughn had plenty Of speed ana m contToT-- Vaughn whiffed. No runs n
 hits; no errors
 poston-Strunk drove liner whicl
 picr knocked down and threw hi'
 man out. Whiteman lined single mt iaft McInnis hit into double pIay
 IyolIocher to Pick to Merkle. No runs
 1 hit; no errors,
 EIGHTH INNING
 c,htcago-Flack walked. Holloche , 1 hrntaa down the third base line, an' lhaat if out Flack went to second. was his third hit of the game Nam ( nonned to Shean. Flack and Holloche , scored on a long two-base hit to iet center by Paskert. Merkle struck out Picks grounder got away rom M Moneal
 and if went for a hit. Shean recovere' the hall threw to Agnew and Pasker
 was run down, the play being Sheal
 to Aonew to Thomas to McInnis. Tw | rms: three hits no errors. Roston-Hollocher threw out Scot F at first. Thomas sent up high fou ' which Merkle took. Schang. battin . for Agnew, struck out. NO runs; F no hits no errors
 3 NINTH INNING Chicago-Schang went in to cate
 for Boston Scott threw out Deal lone : lthrew out Killifer. Vaughn got bt . wave of applause from the Bosto crowd as he came to bat. Waugh
 struck out for the third time. No runs 2 no hits; no errors.
 s Boston-Miller battcd for lone. n Mann made a wonderful catch of Mil D Ier's long fly. He ran up a steep em
 bankment and fell down at the tor recovering himself and caught the bal r l sitting down. Hollocher robbed Hoop I CT of a hit. taking his fly after :. hard run. Sheap got an infield hi Strunk struck out. No runs; 1 hi' h no errors.
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'Batted for Jones in ninth inning. Scnra h1r inn ,,csr 2
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to call off the strike and go on with the game for the game $ sake. In the meantime. the crowd Twas utter | ly at sea as to the cause of the deserted diamond. They filed steadily in until
 near 25.00o had been seated. In the fear that such huge gathering wodld start
 a riot in the event of the announcement of strike police reserves were rushed to
 1 the park.
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With Backs to Wall Cubs Fight Hard and
 Defeat Sox in Fifth
"EIippo" Vaughan After Losing Two Magnificently Pitched Games Comes Back and Blanks Barrow's Henchmen-Mann and Paskert Drive in Runs
 With Long Doubles-Players and Mag
 mates Squabble Over the Receipts

Boston, 1oBg Jim Vaughan the powerful leftanded Kept the Boston Americans out of the
 fifth of the series to O. hour strike of their share of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-11
Yesterdays Attendance

Boston. September iO-Total attend ,nce and receipts of the world series game today follow:
 Total attendance. 24.es4.
 Total receipts, $3l.069.
 National commissions share, 33l06.90 Each clubs share, s13,ss1o5.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-11
FOOTBALL POPULAR
 WITH THE JACK|ES
Charleston Naval Camp Gets Early Start in Build
 ing This Years Team

Washington. gseptember 1o.-Footba! will be played on an extensive scale this autumn in the lSixth~ naval district, with headquarters at Charleston, S. C, Walter D. Powell. district athletic direc- tor of the navy departments commission on training camp activities, announced today that the organization of football teams in every unit had already begun,
 Plans have been made for the forma- ton of a representative camp team, which will meet such southern colleges as South Carolina, Charleston, University of Florida and Georgia Tech, as well as several of the army camps in Georgla and South Carolina.
 The teams will be personally coached by MT. Powell, who is 6 former Wis eonsin gridiron star and organizer or athletics at Western Reserve university. Practice will begin about September 1o, and the first games are scheduled for October ls
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Score by innings:
 Chicago ............... .001 900 020-3 Boston ....00 GOO 900 000--0
 Summanry: Two base hits, Mann, Paskert. Strunk. Stolen base. Hollocher. Sacrifice hits Mann. Shean. Double plays Merkle to Hollocher; Holiocher to Pick to Merkle ?; Whiteman to Shean. Left on bases, Chicago 6. Bos- ton 3. Base on balls, off Vaughn 1, Jones ,. Struck out, by Vaughn 4, Jones ,. Umpires, O'Day behind the plate; |Hildebrande at first; Klem at second, and Owens at third. Time, 1.42.
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have been told there are no pacifstS left. You
tell how many possible flies there are till
fly time. The fact is that under present conditions
the fighters and their supporters the only pacl
fists.
Patched up peace is not peace. Unstable equi-
librium is not stability. Fencing a quagmire does
not eliminate malaria An armed spirit is always
on the verge of pugilism. Coming to an embittered
mutual understanding is far from peace as whet-
ting a sword is close to war. 1t is euphemiStc for
suspension of hostilities.
With the situation as it is pacfsm means the re-
enacting of the same tragedy that is now on the
stage. Reasonable pacifsts can be made to under
stand this Others, when certain point has been
reached that is short of the end, will if opportu
nifty offers claim that the Germans have been pun
ished enough
Sentiment is always in place. but not when it has
been diluted to the state of sentimentality. If it is
right that we punish the Teutons at all the ordi-
nance of moral dignity requires that they be pun
shed till they are penitent. Punishment is not for
the purpose of hurting but for the purpose of sub
DUNG.
Not Acting as Moral Administrator
But it is not question of punishment at all. We
are not acting in the capacity of moral administra
tors. If we were to treat Germany as she deserves
it might occur to US to shatter the Cologne Cathe
dral, rae Berlin to the ground and wipe Germany
off the map.
But that is not our function Aside from that,
we expect that when Germany has the devil east
out of her and she sits clothed and in her right
mind and has withdrawn to the old channels of lib
eralzing achievement i'll science and literature the
energies she has latterly prosttuted to the worlds
naturalization and enthralment she will once more
serve mankind as an agency of blessing and uplift.
Considerable, however, will have to take place
prior to that. We may be long way from the
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lies Their ethical sinuosity has not been matched
by any heather people whose records have been pre-
served to us, with the exception possibly of the
Carthaginians.
In that connection it must be noted that they
make no secret Of the fact that the present war is
only experimental and merely prelude to the final
conflict to be engaged in when they have recuper-
ated from the present one, and are demanding that
the Entente should not in the final adjustment I'M
pose any economic restriction that should embarrass
such recuperation. In other words, they expect US
to help them to get ready to nfict upon us blows
more crushing than any they have yet administered.
Foek'. Peace Talk the Only Kind
If we stand up to the policy that We have enunci-
ated, that of thoroughly Gripping Teutonc
power that it shall be absolutely destitute of re-
sources for carrying on its ubiquitous crusade
against the liberty, comfort and peace of the ma
tions l see no necessity for any peace conference
except the kind of conference that Gen. FOch is con-
Quoting at the present time. There is nothing to
argue. This proposition has only one side. The
oppressed nations must be made free and Germany
be made to kneel in order that they may be free.
The President prompt, brief, lucid response to
Austria s overture has cleared the air. The mass
of the people would not have been satisfied with any
reply essentially different from the one he has rem
dered, and it is the people that will have to be salts
fed and not any official unofficial fraction of the
people.
Any that take exception to the President s way
of disposing of the question will belong to one or
the other of the three following classes The first
class is composed of the peace at any price people.
These are the pacifiss who have never believed In
the war; who have latterly kept quiet for fear of
being charged with sedition and who have been
waiting for just such excuse as enemy overtures
would afford them.
The second class is made up Of those
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This does not mean the crushing of Germany,
however disposed the Germans may be to put that
Interpretation upon the purpose OF the Entente
Nor does it mean imposing upon Germany any par
ticular form of government. 1t Is as competent to
her as to England or to ourselves to determine
upon her own method of administration Abstract
ly viewed there is no best form of government con-
sidered apart from the particular people concerned
We can have no legitimate purpose of disabling
Germany except to the point OF rendering her in
capable of working the disablement Of other peo-
pies Our proper mission is the reimbursement
of the nations which she has enslaved and the re-
duction of her enslaving resources to such an ex-
tent as not only to release those nations from cap
tivty but to destroy her ability to repeat the
process after our hands have been taken off from
her.
No Hint of Vindictveness Shown.
We are not savages even if We are being exposed
TO rather severe incentives to savagery. There IS
nothing in the admirable state papers of President
Wilson that savors of indignity vindlctlveness,
and the best moral sense of our people Is In accord
with his spirit. 1t is tremendously to our advan-
tage that our Chief Executive is at once so full OF
uncompromising determination and SO free from
malignity 1t produces among us statesmanllness
of purpose and solidity of action. This is tenn
pcrate way of considering the situation but it Is
wiser to convert into action heat that might other
wise expend itself in passion.
1t is necessary to realize the wide scope of this
mission of national enfranchisement to which we
have been appointed by Providence and by the
unprovoked aggressiveness of the Teutons other
wise there will not be in the hearts. of our people
an operant motive sufficient to keep us erect and
alert under the burden that is upon us and that
will continue its pressure for considerable time,
for there is still a very considerable distance be-
tween the western front and Inter den Linden.
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German Peace-Or Ours?
Full Defeat of
the Hun Only
Means to In
sure Safety

finish, but we have in our hearts the
gratified assurance that we are great
deal nearer it than we were and
enough nearer to warrant expanding
some earnest though. as to what is to
be the character of the conclusion
when it is reached. 1t will be much
TO our advantage to have in advance
some well established and deeply
grounded thoughts and purposes upon
the matter before the end comes, that
we may not then be shaken from our
principles of conduct by Suddenly de-
veloped considerations that are aloof
from the main point.
We shall have TO remember that we
had nothing to say about the initia-
ton of the war, having been driven
into it as the only alternative. And
if we had had nothing TO say about
its inception, the ends of justice will
only be met by allowing the Central
Powers nothing to say about the terms
of its conclusion.
The equity of such policy on our
part is guaranteed by the fact that no
reliance can be put upon any assur-
ance that the Central Powers might
give US as an element of peace con-.
tract. Truthfulness is not an ingre-
dent Of their moral status. They
think lies, they talk lies and they act