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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
|MESSAGESF FROM SKY DROPPED OVER CITY

Messages from the sky were a mat
 ter of fact yesterday afternoon when four
 of the big passenger carrying planes in
 use at the State Fair flew, scared, ran,
 jumped, fell, looped and spun over Bir-
 mingham carrying post cards and Small
 hand bills which were distributed in all
 parts of the city.
 This unusual form of advertising was resorted to by no less personages than the United States government. in an ap- peal for navy enlistments, and the Pres
 ton Motors corporation, who dropped post cards calling attention to the new
 Birmingham made cars on exhibit at the State Fair. Much attention was attract
 ed by the squadron as each pilot put his passenger through all the stunts" Those making the trips for the Preston
 Motors corporation were men at the head
 of the different departments of produc- ton, William H. Hicks, in charge of the assembly plant; Albert Stanfield, man ager of the upholstery and top depart ment; George D. Papton, superintendent of final inspection, and A. A. Carey, in charge of the stock department. Each man expressed his opinion that the talk of air flights being "scary' was all wrong.
 Its just like riding in car without the road jar said MT. Payton after alghting. 'The only bad part of the whole trip was that I had a gasoline shower bath when we looped. but as a good optimist would have it, we cer- tainly had no unobstructed view of the scenery during those three weeks it took us to get right side up again. Another remarkable thing about the trip was the ability of the earth to come right up to you in about three seconds less than no time after Pilot Trotter had pointed her nose toward a little clump of trees. You certainly can get down in a hurry-in fact, the pilot who brings his passen- gers down on the installment plan is going to gain more popularity, if I am any judge of human nature.''
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Chicago, October 9.-The players of the Cincinnati team, by annexing to- days contest and thereby capturing the series, will receive $117l51.6S, which, divided into 221s shares, will net each share $5.20701.
 The White Sox will draw down $7s,- 1o47G, and each of the A players will receive s3.254.36.
 The National commission obtained s72,2414Q. or one-tenthN of the total re- ceipts of s722.414 taken in. exclusive of war tax on all eight games.
 The totals for eight games follow: Attendance, 236,02S. Receipts (exclu- sive of war tax), $722.414. Players shares, s260. 0.349.70. Clubs shares, $3Ss,- S22,90 Commissions share. $72,241.40. Total for Cincinnati Nationals, $117,- 157.6S. Each player (22k shares), s5.20T.01 Total for Chicago Americans, s7S,10470. Each player CA shares). S3,25436 Second teams of leagues standard expected of him in the series came into his own today and bagged three hits off Eller, one of them a double.
 The Reds were in a hilarious frame at the bombardment of the SoX pitchers.
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dil's head. and Duncan scored, Kopf go-
 ing to third.
 The heavy footed Rariden stole second.
 Eller lifted fly to Felsch, ending what seemed to be one or the longest innings ever played in a worlds series.
 The tiny Liebold opened for the Sox by smacking a brisk single to center off
 Eller, and immediately Jimmy Ring and
 Ivy Wingo were seen vending their way
 toward the warmup station. It began
 to look like a battle royal as Eddie Col
 lins cracked a two-bagger to left cen ter, the ball bouncing off Duncan S
 knees as he crossed over to stop it.
 Liebold took third as Collins was mak- ing beautiful slide into second ahead of the throw. The Red infielders kicked a little over Nallin's decision. Billy Evans, behind the plate, made a carefu l examination of the ball for some reason
 before Eller pitched to Weaver. 1 He called Buck out on strikes and tn,
 third baseman complained querously
 standing at the plate for several minutes | after the official verdict.
 "Shoeless Joe'' Jackson popped weakly 1 to Rath, who went over back of thirc
 and got the ball. While Eller was pitch 1 ing to Felsch Evans had another peek a | the baseball. They evidently suspected 1 Eller was using something illegal. Incl i dentally. he probably does, but Cicott, l and a lot of other pitchers-are said tC | be in the same gondola. Felsch famed
 swinging under the third one. Tn, l "shiner'' was working.
 1 Billy Evans got the well known ''rasp berry from the crowd in the second in
 ming for calling a ball on Roth wher i the pitch seemed to split the, plate
 after which Rath struck out. Dauber was an easy out. and then when Hein, l Groh came to bat the small captain O l the Reds insisted on a look at the base 1 ball Never was the old instrument O national amusement so closely inspected | as at this game.
 1 Groh should have been an ylsy out oI ] his roller to Gandil, but Gandil jugglet
 the ball just long enough for Groh t, | beat his toss to James as Bill went owe
 to cover the bag Hene pulled up limp | ing, turning his ankle as he crossed thu | bag. but he remained in the game. H, l got hit on the lick.
 ! Roush slugged a two- base drive in be | tween Jackson and Liebold, both fielder
 apparently pulling too late in startins after the ball. Groh scored from frs | and Roush was trapped between second
 and third on the throw-in to the plate 1 trying to gather an extra base.
 1 Once more Bill Evans examined tn, 1 ball, at the beck of Ray Schalk, as tn, 1 Sox catcher came to bat in the second after Gandil had gone out and Risberf | had drawn walk. Schalk also took peek and spat on the ball before tossins
 it back to Evans. Then Ray singled tt l left, putting Risberg on second Jame. 1 fouled to Groh, who got the ball whil, standing among the White Sox bats | Lebold famed.
 l Whatever Filler was using it wa.
 mighty befuddling to the Sox. Bil James, too was pitching with all he haf ! and all he knew.N The big pitcher seemed to have plenty of speed and h. , was not afraid to try sloV one now
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MORAN SAYS

Chicago, October 9.-"The Reds are champions and I am the happest man in the world tonight" said Manager Pat Moran of the triumphant Cincinnati club. "I cannot praise my players too highly They played remarkable ball, fought every minute to win and there never was time when they lost confidence.
 "Eller got himself in a couple of bad holes, but~he recovered quickly and had the Sox at his mercy. I want to say that the Sox are not quitters. They are game lot of players. They fought to win, but were outclassed in my opinion. The series ended as I thought it would, but must admit that the Sox gave us a scare
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BATTING AVERAGES

Chicago, October 9.-The unofficial bat ting average of the series show that four ing the series, while five. Reds are over that figure. Of the men who have played in all eight contests, Joe Jackson leads with a batting average of .375. He is closely followed by Nea1e of Cincinnati with .357. The official averages were not finished when the official scorers caught their trains out of this city tonight, but the unofficial averages that follow show that Cincinnati outbatted Chicago as a team by percentages of .255 to PA.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
JACKSON GETS HOMER

Joe Jackson hit the first home run of the series in the Sox side of the third. Duncan made good catch of Collins long smash and Rath snatched diffi- cult twister from Weaver's bat over in short right center. Then "Shoeless Joe banged drive into the right field bleachers. Kopf threw out Felsch.
 James hit Filler with a pitched ball after one was out in the foruth. and Rath got an infield hit to Risberg. although it looked to some as if the "Swede" had FL Ter at second in a scrambling play. Dau- bert singled to center and Filler tried to score Liebolds throw fell we'll ahead of the plate, but Schalk got the ball and by an amazing play got Eller at the plate. Rath reached third and Daubert went to second on the throw, but Groh famed out.
 The game became a dreary affair. A triple bv Kopf and single by Neale in the fifth produced another run for the Reds after two were out.
 In the sixth Eller singled over second. Rath walked and James was taken out Wilkinson went in and the slaughter be- gan. Daubert bunted in front of the plate and Schalk made bum peg to third to catch Eller Groh famed with the bases loaded. Roush singled over Collins head. Eddie leaping up and barely touching the ball. Eller and Rath scored. Daubert took third and scored on Duncans single. Roush took third and Duncan second on the throw. Kopf walked. refilling the sacks, but Neale forced Roush at the plate and Kopf was caught mapping off second by Schalk. A single by Eddie Collins and dou- bles by Buck Weaver and Joe Jack son gave the Sox pair of runs in the eighth after one was out Felsch popped to Rath and Gandil hit a high fly over right center and the ball got lost in the sun to both Neale and Roush. The for mer evidently saw something he thought was the ball in the air. as he stood star
 ing into the sky until reused by the sound of the ball falling behind him. It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
SPORTS
 BY non McDAXID
After Half Century, Reds
 Finally Win Championship Sox Plays Hopeless Ball In Last-"1od" Eller Hit Hard In Final Innings Three Chicago
 Pitchers Used-Large Attendance
By DAMON RUNYoN

Chicago October 9.-(Specal) )-Its long time between baseball championships Cincnnat but after 50 of waiting, landed here this afternoon
 The old town the Ohio start the festivities in honor of beloved Reds that suspended midar to speak last Tuesday, when the possibility of final de sinister shadow the waiting banuuet board
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Roush dropped Risbergs fly and Gandil crossed the plate. There was a mighty activity on both warmup stations. Lou dermilk was getting ready for tRe Sox and Jimmy Ring kept looking over at Moran from the Red side to see if he was needed. Schalk rolled to Rath for an easy out, however. ending the rally.
 Eller passed Eddie Murphy. who bat ted for Wilkinson in the ninth Roush made an astonishing tumbling' catch of Liebold's terrific smash to right center after long run. Collins singled to cen ter. Murphy stopped at second. Neale got Weaver's long fly. Murphy moving to third after the catch. Collins stole with out drawing a throw. Filler got twe strikes on Jackson and then wasted one Joe fouled off the next. Then he hit a roller to Rath, and the series was over
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St. Paul Evens Up the
 Western League Series

Los Angeles. Cal. October 9.-St. Paul evened up the western minor league se- ries today, winning the second game from Vernon, to 0. The American asso- citation champions scored all their runs in the seventh inning on six hits and an error Score: R. H. E. Vernon 00O 000 OO0-- 8 St. Paul .............. 900 900 50@- 8 1
 Ratteries-Fromme, Ross and Devor- mer: Griner and Hargrave.
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S|DEL|GHTS ON BIG
 VICTORY OF REDS

Chicago, October 9.-The crowd of 32, 93O all but jammed Comislzey park to capacity. The only vacant seats were in the right field boxes. Ticket spectators who bought seats yesterday expecting to sell them at fabulous prices lost heavily. They were eager to accept face value for them 15 minutes before game time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
Grand Circuit Trots
 Are Rained Out

Lexington, Ky. October 9.-To- days Grand Circuit trOts were post poDed because of rain and will be called early tomorrow to Sconsoli- date the two days programmes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
PLAYERS RECEIVE SMALL FORTUNES National Commission Ob7
 tains S72,241.4O, One
 Tenth Total Receipts
Attendance Figures
 On Final Game

Chicago. October 9.-The national com mission announced that the at- tendance at today's game was 52.- 800; receipts, exclusive of war tax, . was 1,J44; cOmmissfon's share, s9,I54.9O; clubs share was S2,394.lo.
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Cincinnati ....... 40 O13 O1o-1o Chicago " OO1 900 O40- 5
 Summary: Two base hits, Roush g. E. Callins, Duncan, Weaver, Jackson. Three base hits Kopf, Gandil. Home run, Jackson. stolen bases Neale, Rath, E. Collins. Sacrifice hits, Duncan, Daubert, Left on bases Cincinnati 12; Chicago 8. Base on balls, off Eller 1 (Risberg); James 3, (kopf, Neale Rath) off Wilkinson 4. (Kopf, Rath Daubert, Neaie). Hits off Williams 1 in one third inning; off James in 2-3 things; (none out in sixth) off Wilkinson in innings Hit by pitch CT, by James (Ener); by Wilkinson (Roush); by Eller (Murphy). Struck out by James ? (Neale, Rath) by Will 1inson, ? CGroh, Eller); by Filler , (Weaver, Felsch, Risberg, James, Will kinson). Losing pitcher, Williams. Time 2:27. Empires Nallin behind plate; Rigler at first; Evans at second; Quig- ley at third.
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Evidently the Sox thought Pitcher Eller was mutilating the ball to make it hop freakshly, for on numerous occa- sions they requested Umpire Nallin to examine it. But after looking at it. Nally tossed the ball back to "Hod."
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In the sixth inning. when the Reds scored three more runs, fans began leav- ing the park. They regretted their de- parture after learning of the Sox rally in the eighth.
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FIELDING AVERAGES

Chicago, October 9-The following are the fielding averages of the players who took part in the series:
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JAMES GOES IN

He waited, however, until Pat Duncan smashed another double to left, scoring Groh and Roush. Then the "Kid' waved the left-hander away. Big Bill James went to the mound with one out and Duncan on second.
 He passed Kouf, the first man to face him, and Ray Wilkinson, the recruit from the American association. went down to the warm-up station. Greasy Neale, one of the best hitters in the se- ries, struck out. giving the Sox rooters renewed hope. ''Wa'al Bill" Rarden bumped a dinky single into right field however popping the ball just over Gan
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 from which he was expelled by Umpire
 Charles Risler. He has made a few mis-
 takes, but in the main he caught good
 ball and renewed his hold on the title of
 best back stop in the game
 The White Sox came back to Chicago
 to find the Windy City all smoked up over
 their triumphs in Cincinnati. Inciden-
 tally, it was good and windy, too; not
 windy in q verbal sense although there was some Ct that around, but windy me- teorologically. During the morning it was very cloudy overhead, and it looked as if it might rain, but the wind came along and chased the clouds and everything else away. By game time it was clear over. head with the wind stil cutting all man. ner of capers. The flags on the poles over Coniskey's stadium were straight ened out flat against the breeze. It was blowing away from the home plate. There was wild excitement around the town this morning, as the folks hustled for baseball tickets. No one had antici- patd another game in Chicago, and so it was a last minute-rush for what the football writers call the "coveted paste boards" The crowd seemed to be as large as on any other day of the long battle. The bleachers were damned and they were stin lined up at the gates when the game began.
 'fi> in Cincinati yesterday The Sox fans renewed their offers of wagers on the home club, but they had to confine them- selves to offers The Cincinnati lads con- firmed the recent election of Cincinnati as the mother nest of the hard boiled eggs of America, by asking even money and sometimes odds. Of course, the bet ting was confined to this one game A l Chicagoan would have been simple to bet 1 to talx SeriaS aXcppt at 1 long odds.
 l There were some empty seats left in the stands when the familiar cortege of some brely clad umpires came out on the flelu | but the vacancies were being rapidly blot ted out Claude Williams warmed up over I in front of the Sox bench, while Moran | had several hurlers, including fIler' l working on the other side Of the fiedl' | The group finally dwindled down to Filler. l As yesterday. Gleason sent Felsch to right and put Memo Liebold in center | It is presumed that Felsch's troubles with certain fly balls was responsible TOT the change The little fellow was play l ing pretty well back when Daubert came to bat, after Rath had been effaced, ana could not get up on Jake's line drive It fell for a single For the first time this early in a game since the series started Gleason had a pitcher warming up. It was big James the right handler, who has been around the league quite bit. Csroh punched single to right, just ahead of Felsch. and Daubert went to
 second. The so-called Dangerous Dan"
 Roush who has not been at all danger
 ous at bat after the first game of the
 series, ripped a fierce grounder right
 across first base to deep right field for
 two bases, scoring Daubert and putting
 Groh on third. The crowd began roar
 ing 'Take him out and Gleason might
 have done well to heed the advice right there.
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(New York Nationals and Cleveland Americans). each sl9,52621. Thlr1 teams of leagues Chicago Nationals and New York Americans). each $l3,- 017.45.
 While there are 24 players on the Reds team. three were allotted only half share by vote of the entire team, thereby cutting the total shares to 221b
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
SPORTS
 LOcA1--RY WIRE .
RiuaI Managers Comment on
 Outcome Of Baseball Classic
GLEASON SAYS

of Williams had shown some stuff in the first inning it would have been different story to tell tonight" said Manager Gleason of the Sox. But he didn't have thing except a desire to beat the Reds. That inning when the Reds scored four runs was enough to ,ake the heart out of any ball club,-but the Sox came back fighting
 We were Handicapped at the start of the series in pitching, but I was confi- dent that we could pull through. The Reds were lucky to win those early games. However, they beat us in one of the greatest series ever staged, and my hat is off to them. But l still believe the Sox is the better ball club.
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TOT them 10 minutes DeIoTe game iInie
 In the sixth inning, when the Reds scored three more runs, fans began leav- ing the park. They regretted their de- parture after learning of the Sox rally in the eighth.
 Evidently the Sox thought Pitcher Eller was muti1ating the ball to make it hop freakishly. for numerous occa- sions they requested Umpire Nallin to examine it. But after looking at it, Nally tossed the ball back to "Hod."
 The crowd was generous in it's applause of Filler, a former Sox castoff Remem- bering his three hit victory in the game last Monday, the crowd gave him an ova- tion every time he came to bat. He re- sponded once with a single.
 The Reds batted Dround in the first inning and every player on the team faced the Sox pitchers in the sixth, but Rariden, who had two balls on him, was turned back from the plate when Kopf was caught stealing second.
 In spectacular fielding, Eddie Roush the Reds center fielder carried off the honors of the series. In the first game of the series in Cincinnati he went into extreme center and made circus catch that the baseball experts branded as barely possible. Today he electrified the crowd by racing for Liebold's liner in the ninth, catching it in a headlong plunge and turning completely over.
 Liebod thrilled the crowd in the fourth when he made a perfect throw from mid center field after fielding Dauberts sin gle and nailed Filler coming into the plate. Eller displayed his gameness by sliding into the plate.
 Fans in the left field bleachers gave Joe Jackson, the Sox slugger an ovation when he returned to his garden after driving out home run to the right field bleachers in the third. It was the only home run of the series.
 fhe game produced the heaviest hitting of the series. The Reds bagged Is and the Sox 10. Roush was the individual batting star for the Reds with three safe blows, two of them being doubles.
 Under ordinary circumstances Eller probably would have been removed from the game in the eighth when the Sox found him for four hits, two of them doubles and one a triple. But he told Manager Moran he was not in danger and asked to be allowed to continue. Tn the meantime Moran had Pitcher Ring warming up.
 Eddie Collins, the Sox second base man, who hadn't been hitting up to the
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The crowd was generous in it's applause of Filler. a former Sox castoff. Remem- bering his three-hit victory in the same last Monday, the crowd gave him an ova tion every time he came to bat. He re- sponded once with a single.
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Liebold thrilled the crowd in the fourth when he made a perfect throw from mid center field after fielding Dauberts sin gle and nailed Filler coming into the plate. Eller displayed his gameness by sliding into the plate.
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Eddie Collins, the Sox second base man, who hadn't been hitting up to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10

The Reds were in a hilarious frame at the bombardment of the Sox pitchers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10

The Reds batted Dround in the first inning and every player on the team faced the Sox pitchers in the sixth, but Rariden, who had two balls on him, was turned back from the plate when Kopf was caught stealing second.
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Fans in the left field bleachers gave Joe Jackson, the Sox slugger, an ovation when he returned to his garden after driving out home run to the right field bleachers in the third. It was the only home run of the series.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-04-28
METHODIST CENTENARY
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
FOR THE UNITED STATES

Probably the greatest educational
campaign ever undertaken by church
is that now being launched by the
Centenary Movement of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, which to-
gether plan to raise s15O.OOO,O0O for
missionary work, at home and abroad.
More than $14,O00,OO0 will be spent
on schools and teachers for the I'M
taught children of the world, and in
struction for grown people who had
little or no schooling in their youth
Of this sum a considerable amount
will be spent on educational work in
our own United States.
OF the foreign-born white people in
this country more than IL per cent
are illiterate; of the Negroes, over 30
per cent; of the Japanese, over 9 per
cent, and Of the North American In
dams over As per cent. In many cases,
especially that Of the older foreign
born, the Church can teach these peo-
pie to speak English, to read and
write, and to understand American
customs and laws. when the public
school does not reach them.