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Barons Play Crackers Here Today

Benny Leonard is reported to be poised l for leap from the fistic arena into the field of commercialism.
 But the chances are that if he retires
 at all he won't stay retired It is the unfailing practice of champions, still in their prime, to finger in the game they lcve. to gather in princeiy purses, and to fight one fight too. many. Leonard uh- dcubtedly will prove to be no excep-
 ton.
 Billy Gibson. manager of the King of
 Lightweights, claims that Leonards in-
 tended retirement is against his advice,
 and that Leonard feels that he has done
 all that was asked of him, that he has
 cleared the pugilistic horizon of formid-
 able foes, and that he can make more
 money in future commercialism than with
 his fists. But if Leonard reasons along
 those lines he is entirely mistaken.
 It is true that the champion has mopped up with most of the youngsters
 who notch around 13s But there are still
 few men left worthy of a trial with the
 champion. Johnny Dundee is one. Leon-
 ard has fought hlm five times and never yet has Leonard won in decisives shion.
 Until Leonard puts away Dundee, his out
 standing rival, he has not accomplished all that fandom demands Of him. Lew Tender of Philadelphia is another youngster who certainly deserves a
 chance at the title. This left-handed
 to clash with Leonard. There are others
 beside Tender and Dundee at present who figure rather high in lightweight circles, and Leonard should dispose of each and every one before he figures upon retiring simply because there are more men
 for me to fight
 Perhaps the talk of the possibility of
 Leonards retirement is a publicity stunt.
 Probably the purses in sight for Leonard
 are not as sizeable as Leonard and Gib-
 son would like to gather in They reckon that if Leonard talks about retirement lot of promoters will, in their anx- iety to stage him in a few more bouts before he quits the game, go beyond the normal in their guarantee offers
 Some months ago Benny, together with his two brothers, organized the Leonard Tire company. The business, of course, is still in it's infancy, but has prospects of being successful. The brothers of Leonard are anxious to have Benny de- vote his energies to the tire business. They feel that his prestige as a sales nan would increase profits consdera bly,. There is no doubt about this. But Leon ard in a years time could not make as much through tire profits as he could earn in a half dozen fairly important fights. And Benny knows it.
 | It is possible that Leonard may tenn | porarily cease pugilistic activity, but it | is almost a certainty that sooner or later i he would get back into the ring. They l all do it while they are still in their l prime and even beyond it. The call o1 | the ring and the lure of gold is toe strong for most humans to resist. Many l felt that they were dear to it in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
AL ELLIS GRABS
 ONE OFF THE FENCE

The Barons defense fairly sparkled in the second game and reached its climax in a rousing catch by Ellis up against the fence Graf was on first and two out at the time and the runner would have scored easily. Ellis got great hand from the stands.
 The home guard was not behind in the fielding line in the first game. Graf flung himself headlong at Stevenson liner in the first inning and caught It while standing on his head, the ball De- ing a few inches from the ground
 In the second inning, after Elils had led off with hit, Hairston bumped to Demoe for a fast double play. In the rext inning Fisher started with a blow and was doubled on Gleason's catch or Peters liner. The home guard made third double play in the fourth when Duncan flied to Graham on the hlt-and- run after Stevenson had singled.
 In the fifth the Barons came near Wln- ming. With two out Hairston hit. Fisher whose hitting was fierce in both games shot a long liner to right center: It looked like a homer, but Bates by a great sprint was able to hold it to single and stop Hairston at third. It was the longest single ever hit on the local grounds. A pretty ne-handed stop by Gleason also stole hit from Peters In the eighth.
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FIRST BASE DIFFICULT

The position of first base was not so well looked after Most of the players were new. while the others are not up the standard of former years as far as can be seen. There are no GriffinS ain college ball this year. Webb of Tech looked about as good as any, while Las setter of Auburn came along fast and was hitting over 300 and fielding well at the end of the season.
 There were two second basemen tha stood out above the others. Barnes of Auburn and Sewell of Alabama. Barnes covered word of territory as we'll as hitting hard and timely. It is hard to see how he can be improved on. John Smith of Tech shows up well in some of the important games. Shrotstop goes to Stevenson of Alabama without competition Mise of Georgia could field with any of them but his hitting was only fair Turner of Tech and Davis of Georgia were the best of the third basemen. they are both experienced and have played the last season. Davis showed more steadiness and deserves the position Richardson of Auburn is coming player in this position also.
 Sattertield of Georgia was about the best of the outfielders. E. Morgan of Mercer was good man in left, as was Acton of Howard college in right. The latter played on very good college team. Lenoir of Alabama was another experienced player. IS was Crawford of Gerogia. The trouble of selecting a team of the kind is that no one sees all the players, and even then only for a game or so but from the various se- 1ections a good idea may be had of the leading college players in the south.
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BODIES CIRCUS STUFF
 ASTONISHES NATIVES

McDonald's stellar second base play as- tonished the natives, who had thought the old-timer was all in. With two on bases and two out in the fourth inning Of the first game he made a bare-hand stop Of Higgins apparently safe hit, ending the inning. In the eighth inning, with sec ond and third occupied and one out, he leaped high in the air for gloved hand catch of Graham's liner for an unasslsted double play. He concocted sensational double play in the fourth inning Of the second game, pivoting for Stevenson on a near-hit back of third. In the fifth, with Bates on third and none down, he flagged Higgins hot one, saw Bates was besitatinc near third and snapped him off the bag Every one of these plays was run saver.
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ANNISTON SPORTS
Philpot Beats Watson

Anniston, May 30. Especial 1.-The Phil pot and Wheeler Watson teams met in their second contest for the week on the athletic field Friday morning, and the story as told by the final figures of the official scorer was that the Philpot ag- glegation had outpointed the Watson lads to 3.
 The game was lost on account of the many errors on the part of the Watson team, Robinett, the OXanna star doing the heavy stick work for the team which essayed to wrest a victory from the Phil pot organization
 Batteries for the Philpot nine were E. Philpot, Fred Steele. H. Philpot and Hitchcock. Potter and Standard, Borders and Potter did the twirling and receiving for the Watson team
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Here Is One Thing That
 Is Absolutely Impossible

seat of the trouble. and rid the, system of the cause of the disease? S. s. S. than fifty years been giving relief to even the most aggravated and stub born cases of Rheumatism. It cleans es and purifies the blood by routing out all traces of disease. The expert ence of others who have taken s. s. s will convince you that it will promptly reach your case. You can obtain s. S S. at any drug store.
 A valuable book on Rheumatism and it's treatment, together with expert medical advice about your own indi- vidual case. will be sent absolutely free Write today to Medical Department Swift Specific Co, 2o0 Swift Laboratory Atlanta. Ga.-Adv.
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Write or Come To See Us. WYATT JOHNSON
 3Os-312 :. goth St.
Rheumatism Has Never Been Cured by Liniments or Lo-
 lions. and Never Will Be

You never knew of Rheumatism that most painful source of suffering being cured by liniments. lotions or other external applications. And you vir never see anything but temporary relief afforded by such makeshifts.
 But why be satisfied with temporary relief from the bangs of pain which are sure to return with increased severity, when there is permanent relief within your reach? Science has proven that Rheumatism is disordered condition of the blood. How then. can satisfactory results be expected from any treat ment that does not reach the blood, the
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HAIRSTON'S ERROR GIVES VISITORS ONLY TALLY

The locals won the first game in the first inning. Demoe reached second when Hairston threw over Bernsens head. The ball went so far that Demoe ran on to third, but was sent back to second on ground rule. Graf sacrificed. Kelly walked. Gleason beat out slow poun- cer toward short, Demoe scoring the games only run Slapnicka had men on bases freauently, chiefly through errors hut was invincible in the pinch thereaftef until the eighth when McDonald's eaten ec
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Teams Meet Saturday

Anniston, May 30-(Special)-Th re- gently organized ex-soldiers and ex-sail- OTIS ball team will meet the Camp Me Ciellan utilities team on the Anniston athletic field in battle royal Saturday afternoon, and large crowd of fans are expected in attendance.
 The city team is composed of some of the fastest local players available, and tho fact that it is a newly organized bunch of swift men, attracts a great deal of attention locally. Earl Flaw
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CHICKS AND BEARS BREAK EVEN ON DAY COleman's Homer Wins the First, But Canavan Holds
 Bruins in Second

Memphis, May 3o.-Mobile and Mem phis divided todays double-header, Cole n ans home run in the tenth inning giv- ins the visitors the first game, free hit ting game, to 5, while hits, coupled with Mobiles errors in two innings, en- abled Memphis to win the second game. s to 1. Canavan allowed Mobile only three hits in the second game and struck out nine Scores:
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American Association

At Indianapolis-Ind 1877: Louisville, 5-3.
 At Milwaukee-Milwa 6-5; Kansas City, 4-12.
 At Columbia-Columbia 9: Toledo, 4 At Minneapolis-Mi Minneapolis, 5; St. Paul
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|DONAHUE PICKS AN SOUTHERN TEAM Auburn Coach Awards an Infield Berth to Acton
 of Howard

Auburn, May 30.-(Special,) An all-southern baseball nina was picked and announced thls morning by Mike Donahue, la nous coach of the Auburn IL gers. The diminutive Mlchae- gives tie following stars bertfs on his mythical outfit and also in his statement sums up the last baseball season.
 Pitchers Boone of Alabama, John
 ston of Auburn, PhiIpot of Georgia and BIoodsworth of Mercer; Cafch-
 CTS Stiles of Alabama and Morgan
 of Mercer; first base, Webb or
 Tech; second base, Barnes of Au-
 burn; shortstop, Stevenson of Ala
 bama; third base, Davis of Geor-
 gia; outfelders, satterfield or
 Georgia, Morgan of Mercer and Ac-
 ton of Howard.
 The following is Donahues state ment: The end of the baseball season closed a very interesting year in sports On the whole it has been successiui year, especially so when the work or the year is considered in the light or constructive work towards future sue cess. Some good players were deVel- open in football that will be q great help to the old stars that will return in the fall
 The basketball team was the best college team in the south, and the base ball had developed at the end ot the season into an aggregation that would give trouble to any of them. Unlike the football teams the baseball teams in the south were about up to the average, and an all-southern team might be se- lected that would compare favorably with those of past seasons. From Boone, Johnston, Philpot and Bloods- worth good pitching staff could be selected with the first three as the selection.
 Boone, Philpot and Bloodsworth are through with college ball, while John ston is only in his second year He is very dependable pitcher and very hard to beat. Ollinger of Auburn, Ash bury of Tech and Hunter of Alabama are also promising pitchers. The catch CTS position is rather close first be- tween Stiles of Alabama and Morgan of Mercer. with the prestige of playing on championship team favorlne Styles. Morgan is just as much at home in the outfield and he would make Q first class utility man. Anderson of Au- burn was about the next best.
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Sacrifice hits. Mcdonald, Graf. Stolen base, Kelly.
 Double plays, Demoe to Graham; Glea- son to Graham; Graham to Demoe; Me Donald unassisted
 Left on bases, Birmingham 3, Chatta- nooga '.
 Base on balls, off Noel 1, off Slap nicka 3.
 Struck out, by Noel 1, by Slapnicka z. Time, 1:25.
 Empires Brennan and Campbell.
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International League

At Rochester-Rochester. 6-1; Toronto, 5-2 At Buffalo-Buffalo. 2-S Binghampton, S-5.
 At Reading-Reading, S-2; Buffalo, Az. At Jersey City-Jersey City. 13-6; New ark, 20
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
RESULTS YESTERDAY

Boston, 10-3; Philadelphia, 6-4 Detroit, 2-6; St Louis, 0-2. New York. 4-6; Washington, 2-2. Chicago, 4-3; Cleveland, 1-2.
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SPORTS
 BY BOB McDAvID
Barons and Lookouts Split
 Twin Bill in Which Eddie
 Mcdonald AstOnishes Fans
Fishers Hitting Is Stellar Offensive Performance-Slap Loses Hard Battle Hairstons Bad Peg, But Kid Ballmer Cops the Second Contest-Elis
 Makes Great Catch

Chattanooga May 30-(Specal -Before crowd ot 4OOO people, who braved constant drzze Lookouts and Barons divided the Memorial day doubeheader the home team taking the first to O. in beautiful pitching duel be- tween Sapncka There world of sensational fielding in both only of the scored earned others being due weird throwing.
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*Batted for Nasty in seventh.

Seven innings, by agreement
 Summary: Two-base hits, Canavan, Griffin, Lewis. Sacrifice hits. Barger, Griffin, Carroll. Innings pitched, by FL lis, 22-3, with 4 runs and hits; by Utt. l1-3. with 3 runs and hits. Passed ball. Coleman Wild pitch Ellis Bases on balls, off Utt 1, Canavan g. Struck out by Ellis l, Canavan 9. Time, 1:45. Umpires. Johnson and Collins.
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A wild throw by Hairston set the stage for the single run that beat Slapnlcka and similar throw by Peters gave the home club it's run in the second game. The Barons earned their first run and scored the winning marker in the hnai inning on a wild heave by Demoe.
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Two-base hit, High. Home runs, Grif-
 fin, Coleman. Sacrifice hit, Miller. Dou-
 ble plays, Goodbred to Christenoury to Griffin: High to Griffin. Innings pitched bv day & with 5 runs and Il hits; Dy lit. 1 1-3 with no runs and two hts.
 Base on balls, off Goodbred, 2 struck out, by Day 1. by Utt 1, by Goodpred' 9 Time, 2:2o. Empires, Johnson and Col-
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at the plate. The Lookouts knotted this count in the fifth
 Lacey drew pass to start and Peters, after juggling Bates bunt, threw far to the right of first. Bates going to third and Lacey scoring. McDonald's quick throw to third on Higgins rap trapped Bates and then rain stopped the game for 20 minutes. When play was resumed Ellis saved a run for Ballmer by his catch in the sixth and the Barons won in the seventh.
 Ellis opened the inning with hit Bern ser sacrificed. Fisher. the days offensive hero, poked a near-hit to Demoe, and when the short fielder threw low past first Ellis scored. Ballmer retained his effectiveness to the end and outside of one inning, the fifth, the locals never had a chance
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LEAGUE STANDINGS
SOUTHERN LEAGuE
RESULTS YESTERDAY

Birmingham, 0-2: Chattanooga, l.. Little Rock. 3-2; New Orleans, 2-1. Mobile, 6-1; Memphis, 5-s. Atlanta, 2-0 Nashville, II.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE

RESULTS YESTERDAY New York, 6-4; Brooklyn, 2-1. Boston, 6-6; Philadelphia, 80. Pittsburgh, 9-3; Cincinnati, 3-1. St. Louis, 5-4; Chicago, Al.
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FISHER DRIVES IN
 ONLY EARNED RUN

Tn the second game Fisher drove Tn the only earned run of the day Tn tie second inning, his single following hlils heing hit and a long single by Hairston. Kellvs throw to third to head Hairston got past Graf and Hairston tried to score. but VinNs backed up and got him
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Seven innings by agreement)
 SUMMARY Two-Base Hit-Lacey Sacrifice Hits-Bernsen, Bates. Stolen Base-Stevenson. Double Play-Stevenson to Mcdonald to Bernsen. Left on bases-Birmingham ?. Chat tanooga 4.
 Bases on Balls-Off Ballmer 1. Struck Out-By Ballmer 1, Vines 2. Hit by Pitcher-By Ballmer (Kelly). by Vines (Ellis). Time-1:10. Umpres-Campbell and Brennan.
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One of the largest electric plants in the world is being planned to supply power to the god mines around Johannesburg,i South Africa. 7A5
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GAMES TODAY

Philadelphia at Boston. Brooklyn at New York. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh. Chicago at St. Louis.
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GAMES TO-DAY

Atlanta at Birmingham. Mobile at Little Rock. New Orleans at Memphis. Chattanooga at Nashville.
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Chicago Takes Both

Chicago May 3O.-Chicago, by defeat ing Cleveland to in the afternoon game before the largest crowd of the season, gave the visitors their second defeat O. the day, having won the morning game to1 The locals punched hits off Bagpy in the afternoon and took the lead but the visitors, playing an uphill battle tied the sc5re in the ninth inning. with the aid of Eddie Collins error and Speaker daring base running. Collins retrieved himself by starting the White Sox rally in the ninth and scoring the deciding run. Score:
 Afternoon game: H.H. T., Cleveland ............. GOO coo lOl-2 Chicago .................. OOO2oO ul-5 z
 Uhle. Coveleskie and ONeill; Nunamak- CT, Williams and Schalk.
 Morning game: h.h F.. . Cleveland ..........................-. CnlCdgO ............ ........-.......... a0
 Bagby, Jamieson and O'Neill Faber and Schalk.
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k1ns, who is just back from the front llne trenches, is developing into pitcher of phenomenal ability, and his strike out qualities are being extensively dis cussed in baseball circles.
 The two Young boys who play with the Utilities team are tossers of many curves and of great speed The first game between the two teams to be played in Anniston will see them in action.
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GAMES TODAY

Cleveland at Chicago St. Louis at Detroit. New York at Washington. Boston at Philadelphia.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
James Bungles It Up

Philadelphia, May 30.-After Dupont passed two men in the ninth inning. James was sent to the rescue of Boston in the afternoon game with Philadelphia. Roth bunted to James who tried to hur- ry the ball. to third and in failing to do this he filled the bases and then struck George Burns on the elbow with the bal! and the Athletics won, four to three. without a man out in the 10th. Ruth knocked in all three of Boston's runs Boston won the morning game 10 to 6.
 Afternoon game, score: RH F. Boston ......... 100 GOO O20 O-3 Q
 Pennock, Dupont and Schang; Perry' Cheney and Perkins.
 Morning game: K. Il E. Philadelphia ........................ Il l Boston ......................... 10 13 1 Batteries: Ruth, Seibold and SchanS; Geary and McAvoy.
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South Atlantic League

Charlotte, '; Columbia, 2. Greenville, 4; Charleston, 5; 10 innings
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Browns Have I.rd Luck

Browns Have . 'rd Luck
 Detroit, Mich, May 5o-Detroit won both games from St. Louis today, to , and 6 to this afternoon. Veich ano Heilman tripled in the sixth inning this morning after Cobb had reached first on an error
 In the afternoon game Cobb's hitting and Dauss pitching won for Detroit.
 Score, afternoon game: R.H.I. St Louis ............... 110 GOO 0cO-2 : Detroit ................ 211 010 O0x--6 Shocker, Koob Wright and Severeid; Dauss and Ainsmith.
 Morning game: St. Louis. 0. 5. 1: De- troit, ?. 5, o.
 Batteries: Weilman, Koob. Severeid and Billings; Ehmenke and Ainsmith. ]! Residents of Davton Ohio, have sent petitions to the welfare director of that city asking that they be permitted to use the streets in residerGe districts for dancing purposes. The plan, which may be carried out by the city welfare de- partment. would be to rope of certain sections of smoothly paved streets to pro tect the dancers from traffic. The city would provide the music for .nser- |tainments, s $
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nks Win Three of Them

Tanks Win Three of Them
 Washington, May 30.-New York made it three straight from Washington by winning the afternoon Memorial Cny game, to }. after taking the morning contest to in 10 innings
 Poor pitching coupled with faulty sup port caused the local team to lose the af-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-12
B|GCUT IN NAVY BILL
|MPER|LS AVIATION
Measure Is Reported in House
With $375,ooo,ooo Slashed
From Estimates
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tion OF Sl55,uOu'uUo Tor continued con
struction OF the Iol" DuiIdlhg program
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tenancp of thp present naval mir srryiro
until a definite policy for future cypau.
sion could be determined
The measure will be considered by
the House tomorrow.
Abandonment of the navy's extensive
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-12
WANT COMFORT STATIONS
Municipal Research Bureau Points
Out Their Need

The need of public comfort stations
of modern type is emphasized by the
Bureau of Municipal Research in its
most recent bulletin. Inconvenionces oc-
casioned by their absence during the re-
cent entertainment of the Twenty eighth
Army Division are pointed to Us argu
ments in favor of the expenditure Of
public money along this line.
The failure of the city SO far to
frame any comprehensive plan for the
comfort and accommodation of the
public generally is declared to be flaw
in Philadelphia hospitality whenever
extended to any large bodies of out of
town guests. The suggestion is made
that this city might we'll benefit through
following the example of European
cities.