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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-31
CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE
HOLDS BIG MEET
Business Men Consid-
er Important Ques-
tio1,s.

Springfield, ILL.,, March 31.-Op-
position to the increase of the state
school distributive fund from $6,-
100000 to $20,000,O00 was recon-
mended to the Illinois Chamber of
Commerce, in the report here this
afternoon in its report of the COM
mittee by Chairman r. B. Beach
Of Chicago.
Springfield. H., March 31.-The
State Chamber of Commerce held
its legislative conference In Spring
field today, discussing Legislative
questions considered of vital i'm
portance to the business men of IL
linois. Over fifty cities were rep
resented.
Reports were presented by COM
mittees covering the chambers leg
islative program, which was divid-
ed into these sections:
Good roads, state police, public
utility regulation, city planning,
zoning, city manager form of gov
ernment, uniform traffic regulation
University of Illinois financial ap-
preparation, and financing of the
public schools.
Recommendations Of the commit
tees were these:
John Camlin of Rockford, chair.
man of the public utilities commit
tee, reported that the committee be-
lieved that:
Il. Local Home Rule would be
impracticable and would interfere
with the development of public util-
tiles and would consequently be
detrimental to the business expan-
sion and prosperity of the state
The committee, however, believe
that the principle Of local home
hearings should be adopted and
that the public utilities law should
be amended to provide that hear.
ings may be held in the county
where the complaint originates
Your committee believes that local
home hearings will bring about
practically all of the advantages
suggested by the advocates of To-
cal home rule but that local home
hearings will not be accompanied
by the disadvantages that must
necessarily 60 with local home rule
"2. 1t is often incOnvenient fol
the parties at interest to go te
Sangamon county to bring appeals
from decisions Of the commission
and the public utilities law should
be amended to provide that any ap,
peal may be brought in the cir
cult court Of the county where tht
hearing was held.
Increase Commission.
"3. The commission should bs
increased to not less than nine
members and the commission
should be authorized to divide tn,
membership into as many divisions
leach to consist of not less thar
three members) as it may deem
necessary, each of such division.
to exercise the power and author
ity of the entire commission, but
all decisions by any such division,
to be subject to review by the en-
tire commission upon application
Of any interested party (such re
view not to contemplate the intro
duction of any new evidence.)
-. The commission should re
ceive enlarged appropriations II
| order that it NAV employ addition
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-31
BELGIAN RIOTS.

Coblentz, March 30.-Communist
uprisings have broken out in the
Belgian occupied area. and the en-
tire section u IN . state Of unrest
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EX.KAISER,S FURNITURE.

Chicago, March 31.-An auction
sale Of bedroom furniture belonging
to former Emperor William Of Ger
many brought only $4,000.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-31
CLAIM CHARLES
WILL ADVANCE
UPON BUDAPEST
Reports Are Conflict.
ing on Hungaria,,
Situation.

Vienna, March 3l-(By the
Associated Press.) Confrma.
ton was received in official
quarters here this afternoon
that martial law had been do.
clarcd In West Hungary under
the supporters Of ex.Emperor
Charles. This caused an inten.
sifed feeling Of gravity In gov.
ernment circles over the situa.
tiOR.
Further reports are that 1oo,.
900 men from the West Hun.
gartan garrisons have rallied to
the colOrs of General Lehar,
reputed to be the military lead.
er In . movement from Steina.
nanger to cause the restoration
Of Charles. Anxiety was ex.
pressed rs to whether Admiral
HOrthy would be able to hold
the southern c0ntingents In line
Steinamanger, West Hungary,
March Silvia Budapest. JAS
sociated Press.)-Premier Teleky
and Count Andrassy, former for
eign minister, have been in debate
q whole day here with former En-
per0r Charles on the conditions un-
der which the latter would be will
ing to sign q formal abdication. It
Is said Charles is insisting that q
stipulation Of the validity of his
son Otto shall be recognised and
embodied in the Hungarian laws.
London, March 31.-(Associated
Press. IAN Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Paris today says Il
is reported the majority Of the Hun
garian troops have rallied to the
standard of Ex-Emperor Charles
who will march on Budapest. 0
There is no confirmation from
other sources of the foregoing re.
port that ex-Emperor Charles cou-
templates moving on Budapest. Di-
rect advices from Hungary have moi
indicated any notable degree ol
support for the ex-ruler.)
Horthy Foils Move,
Vienna. March 31.-(By the As.
sociated Press.)-Reports were re-
TO-DAY that av.Emnoro, rha r,os h I'D
rroci. ;mad m;1;tarr S;o,ato,.h;. I I, :.
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sarv rostora CHARLES IN tha throno
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Although the agreement scrupu-
lously avoids political entangle-
ments it is fact that most of the
political friction in the far east in
the past has arisen out of the COM
Evening star., 1921-09-24
P|RATESSTAy IN RACE
BY WIN OVER RPH|LL|ES

Pittsburgh still retains a mathe-
matical possibility of overtaking New
York for leadership in the National
League. although twenty-three points
behind the pacemakers. Pitcher
Hamilton of the Pirates kept his team
in the running by splendid pitching
against the Phillies yesterday, blank
ing them and allowing only four hits,
which were evenly divided between
Outfielders Lee and King. Three hits
and a pasA off Meadows gave the
Pirates the runs for their 2-to-0 sue
cess.
Rain at st. Louis kept the Giants
and the Cards idle, so these teams
were to go into a double-header to-
day. The Giants now have the ad-
vantage of three and one-half games
over the Pirates. while the Cards.
four games behind the Pittsburghers,
have a chance to make second place
in their remaining engagements
The Cubs overwhelmed the Braves,
13 to 5. The winning team included
several recruit players. among them
Pitcher Kaufan. Each of the Cubs
made one or more hits. Thomas got
a home run.
Evening star., 1921-09-24

lSSS IhdA i"o PSAhtS'
Waite Hoyt's splendid pitching
against the Indians yesterday in
creased the confidence of the New
York followers, as he will be available
again in the final game Monday. The
young twirler struck out seven men
and was steady except in the fourth
inning. when two runs were scored.
In the first inning he famed jamie
son, Wood and Smith.
Ruth Is Big Factor.
Babe Ruth, whose three two-base
hits figured prominently in the vic
tory, scored three of the four New
York runs.
First Baseman Johnston of Cleveland
had only four putouts. while Center
fielder Wood of the same club made
five, three of them in one inning.
is troubled with his leg, recently in
jured. He batted fox Coveleskie in
the ninth inning and raised a pop fly
to Peckinpaugh. Speaker limped in
running to first.
Gardner and Sewell were the only
Indians to get more than one hit, the
former making two singles and the
latter a triple and a single.
Athletics Win a Pair.
Heimack. a recruit pitcher from the
Three-I League, helped the Athletics
win a double-header from the White
Sox. He had the Chicagoans at his
mercy in the first game, won by the
Macks. to 0. Harris allowed only
four hits in the second encounter that
the AS took, 3 to l.
After he had won nine straight
games Pitcher Bush of the Red Sox
was stopped by the Browns, when
they won, 10 to 2, in the first game
of double-header. Shocker was the
winning pitcher. In the second game,
won by the Red Sox. 10 to 5, Center
fielder Leibold of the winners hit
safely in four times at bat.
Evening star., 1921-09-24

The Nationals made some progress
toward their objective yesterday in
taking a hard-fought and faultlessly
played game from Detroit, while st.
Louis won and lost in Boston. The
Browns now are but one and one
half games in advance of the Grins.
who hold a two-gime margin over
the Red Sox. The fact that the Ma
tionals have eight games yet to play
gives them a fighting chance to over
haul the Fohlmen. who have but nve
contests remaining, while TOUR OF the
ten games still to be disposed OF by
Boston are with the local team.
The toughness of the Washington
assignment is apparent from the
fact that if the Browns win three OF
their five unplayed games the Grifs
must account for six of their remain
ing eight in order to tie for third
place.
Mogridge Outpitches Leonard.
Yesterdays pastime. in which the
locals hung up their fifth consecutive
victory with another last-minute raj
ly, was a hard-fought pitching duel
between the veterans Mogridge ana
Leonard Each whitfield seven bats
men, Mogridge gave as many un-
earned passages to first, against four
franked by Leonard, but permitted
four fewer than the nine hits charged
against the Tiger, yet there was
nOtninR InuCn OIL an euSe dPpdi ~.
the local lefthander until the fruitful
final frame, when Joe Judge suppAeo
the decisive punch.
Detroit's lone run was registered
right at the outset. Young, the nrSt
man up, spanked a triple to left ana
after Jones famed and Cobb walked,
scored while Judge and Mogridge
collaborated on Veach's hot smash.
Thereafter the BengalS scoring ef-
forts were frustrated. They threat
ened in the fourth, when Veach dou-
bled and Heiimann beat out a roller
to O'Rourke, but Blue and Merritt
both were disposed of and after
Hassler was purposely passed Leon
ard lined to Harris. They appeared
dangerous on one other occasion. in
the ninth. Then Blue doubled with
one out and after Merritt's death
Bassler again was Intentionally
walked, whereupon Mogridge famed
Leonard.
Nationals Start In Fourth.
The Nationals Offset Detroit's tally
in the fourth, when Rice singled and
was forced by Goslin, who advanced
as Charity walked and scored on a
rainbow single to left by O'Rourke.
Goslin also registered the decid-
the way with single that bounded
feed, Charity was purposely passed
to Mogridge loaded the bases and
battle with a safety to center.
Evening star., 1921-09-24
MISS LE|TCH W|NS.GOLF
TITLE MATCH, II AND IS

OTTAWA, Ont, September "a
Miss Cecil Lcitch, British voman's
golf champion, today annexed the
Canadian woman's title by nm un-
precedentedly easy victory for a
championship match. In the final
round of the tournament she de-
feated Miss Mollie Mcbride by II
up and Is to play.
Miss Leitch fought her way to the
finals yesterday by defeating Miss
Alexa Stirling of Atlanta, Unlted
States champion. and last years Ca
madam titleholder, 3 and l. Miss NC
Bride became a finalist by vanqulsh-
ing the British champions sister, MISS
Edith Leitch. 2 and !.
Miss Stirling may meet her con-
aueror again next month on home
soil. Miss Leitch is entered in the
American championship tournament
and both she and Miss Stirling are
believed equal to the task of eliminaf :
ing all other entrants they will meet.
Evening star., 1921-09-24
JOHNSON TODAY SEEKS
SIXTH STRAIGHT VICTORY
Mogridge Shows Fine Form and Downs Tigers,
2=1, in Pitching Duel With Leonard.
Judges Single Decides 1t.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

YALTER probably will line
wv aid the determined fight Washington
the dividend position of third place
League Baney three
winning he what the doctor ordered
off him, while his
he tally measly hafdozen binges.
Johnson likely have need of all his skill prob
looking
who have hand this The ability of this
that although he has been pitching regularly
only about months he has victories against
the
allowed but while Johnson Aco
hammered for less than fifteen
Evening star., 1921-09-24

No school in the south seems 10 nave
as brilliant gridiron prospects as
Georgia, Material which is as good as
almost any coach might desire, com
bined with an excellent coaching stan
and almost perfect management, Is
sufficient to warrant prediction that
Georgia is going to have the best sea-
son of its history.
Has Twelve Letter Men.
Only two regulars of the 1920 team
are not back with the squad, and of
the fifteen men who got letters only
three are absent. And when 1t is
called to mind that Georgia went
through the 1920 season undefeated, 1t
does not take any more than that TO
indicate the kind of opposition 1t is
likely to afford its opponents this faii.
To give an idea of the strength OF
Georgia's line, here are some of the
weights of last years men now hold
ing down forward positions: Day,
center, 1873; Whelchel, guard, 21O; An
thony, guard, 200; Pew, tackle, 1870;
Bennett. end, IT'S; Reynolds. end. l65.
Some of the reserves are Boney, CEN
ter, 1856: Spicer, fullback, $50; NJ. Day,
guard, 1856; Frier. lineman; $50; Thom-
ason, end, 1856: Mulvehill, end, $50;
Thompson. fullback, $50; Newton.
lineman, 200.
Regular backs from 1920 now with
the squad are Tanner, l7s pounds,
fullback: Collins. $50, halfback. and
Fits, $50, quarterback. The only diff
ficulty confronting the squad is the
development of man to take the
place of Echols, who did so well at
halfback. Taylor, the other regular
lost. was a tackle. and while a good
Evening star., 1921-09-24
BARRED VESSEL SENDS
IN ENTRY FOR BIG RACE

BOSTON. September 24.-The Boston
schooner Mayfiower has been entered
for the elimination trials to be held
to select the American defender of
the international fishing schooner
trophy. won by the Gloucester shooner
Esperanto last year This action was
taken in the face of the formal vote
of the American race committee at
Gloucester to accept the ruling of the
Canadian trustees OF the trophy bar
ring the Mayhower from competition.
The committee is expected to pass
upon the entry shortly.
LUNENBERG, N. s., September e.
The Delawana, winner of last years
Nova Scotia fishing schooner race,
and loser in the international contest
against the Eesperanto. will compete
races again this year. Several other
vessels in addition to the Delawana
and the Blue Nose. will be entered.
Evening star., 1921-09-24
RECORD FIELD STARTS
IN DISTRICT NET PLAY

Leading racketers of the city were
among the eighty-eight entrants paired
for the annual District tennis singles
championship scheduled to start on the
courts of Dumbarton Club at / O'Clock
this afternoon. The field in number
sets record for the titular event. The
draw resulted in distributing the stars
almost evenly between the upper and
the lower brackets.
In the upper half are Jack Dudley,
Swarthmore player, who was runner-up
in the 1920 tournament; j. r. Ballenger,
Suburban League star; John Temple
Graves, a seasoned veteran; Clarence
Charest, Dumbarton and Baltimore
luminary. and Maj. A. E. Foote, an
other Dumbarton expert. The lower
bracket includes Maj. Arthur Yencken.
present title holder; Capt AL Gore, long
prominent factor in District tennis;
Tom Mangan of Dumbarton and Lieut..
Harold Selden.
Entries for mems doubles and wom-
ems singles will close tonight and those
for mixed doubles Monday night. The
tournament probably will continue
through ten days.
Evening star., 1921-09-24
Boone IS HITTING king
IN SOUTHERN CIRCUIT

Rpone of New Orleans has won the
premier honors among the batters of
thee Southern Association, according
to the unofficial averages which in
cluAe all games. The New Orleans
sluGger finished with an average of
.3S& in 156 games. He was at bat STA
TIMES and cracked out 223 hits, and
haa the honor for total bases with a
mark of 33S.
There was a close finish for second
place between Griffith of New Orleans
and Polly McLarry of Memphis, the
forSner nosing out his rival by one
point. finishing with an average of
.353
Andy High Of Memphis carried of
tha honors in runs scored with 1876.
Befhsen of Birmingham was crowned
the home run king by the league by
making twenty-one circuit drives and
Stewart of Birmingham carried off
the stolen base honors with sixty-six
thefts.
Other leading batters: Burke,
Nashville. .34s; Bogart, New Orleans,
.345: Camp, Memphis. .342; Bernsen.
Birmingham. 1856; Traynor, Birming-
ham, 1886; Wano, Little Rock, 1898; /;
Don Brown, Memphis, 1888.
Evening star., 1921-09-24

Gardner defeated Willie Hunter, s
and 4, keeping the Briton down all
the way after the fifth hole. He out
played Hunter from the tee and
through the green all the time and,
after the first few holes, putted as
we'll or better. Hunter showed his
mastery of the run-up shot, but IT
was used mostly in getting a half
where the loss Of hole seemed immi-
nent.
Evans OF His Game.
: Guilford won his place in the finals
for the second time in his career by
defeating the present champion, Chick
Evans, 6 and 5. Finding Evans sadiy
off his game. especially on the greens.
the Bostonian played good enough
golf to win over a better variety than
Evans displayed yesterday. Guilford
made only two errors, topping his
brassie to creek on the ninth, and
heeling his mashie approach out OF
bounds on the twenty-ninth hole.
On the other hand. Evans, who first
won the title in 1916 after he had cap
Evening star., 1921-09-24
VESTS NETMEN AHEAD
IN MATCH WITH EAST

assumed the lead at the opening days
,lay of the east-west tennis series
yesterday, to 1. The west won the
two singles and the east the doubles.
The results:
Clifford Herd of San Francisco defeated
Arnold Jones Of Providence. r. l., SO. 6-1,
e.
FISCHER Of Philadelphia, g.. 6-3, 81. 6-1.
S. Howard Voshell Of Brooklyn and Vincent
Richards of Yonkers. N. Y, defeated Robert
kinsey and Willis Davis. both Of San Fran
cisco. 6-1, S-6, Ga.
Today Frank Anderson, New York,
will meet Kinsey and Voshell will
play Davis in the singles. Villa m
Tilden, world champion, paired with
Jones, will be opposed by James An
derson and ]. B. Hawkes., Australians.
Evening star., 1921-09-24

steve, due to a broken finger on his
throwing hand. Strangely enough.
the injury was not the res -llt of
handling a pitched bail. but was
caused by one of Howard Ehmkes
wild shoots hitting him on the hand
That accident kept O'Ncill out of the
game for eight weeks at a time when
he was going at top speed.
1t was only natural that the Cleve-
land club should suffer during his alb
sence from the game. Its Il difficult
task to ask Il catcher who has been
sitting on the bench for weeks with
out regular work, to step into the
breach at a moments notice and fill
the bill. Nunamaker cid fine work
while O'Neill WAS out, and just about
the time O'Neill was ready Nunamak-
er suffered broken leg sliding into
second, putting him out for the rest
of the season.
At His Best Now.
ONeill is again at his best and is
certain to give a good account of him.
self if Cleveland is in the series.
ONeill is fine receiver and an ac-
curate thrower. ,He is a dangerous
batsman. O'Neill * having one Of his
best years at the bat, being well over
300. l have worked in u number OF
world series and have been spec
tator at several others, and l cannot
recall single series where any
catcher put on a better performance
than did O'Nein last year. He was
poison" to the Brooklyn pitchers. and
lad he been "R4De'' Ruth he could
not possibly have received more in
territorial passes than We're handed
him.
In Schmidt the Pittsburgh club can
boast of a catcher universally regard
ed as the greatest of all National
League receivers. All the National
I nj
whom l have talked. tell me that
Schmidt is the daddy OF them al
in their league. He is very fast. ana
on Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, where
the catcher has all kinds of room
back of the plate. Schmidt is con-
stantly pulling sensational plays on
foul flies that the average catcher
would not come close to getting. Any
American Lacquer would find Schmidt
a mighty hard man to pull any stun
on.
SchanG Has Improved.
Wally Schang of the New York
Americans, is catching by far the
best bali of his career. His world
series experience with Philadelphia
and Boston is certain 10 be of great
advantage to him il the Yankees come
! under the wire first. Schaug has the
greatest arm in the business. although
| he is not as accurate as oNeill and
| Schmidt.
| John McGraw splits the work back
| of the plate between Snyder and
| Smith. When left-handers oppose the
Giants. Snyder. a right-handed bats
man. does the catching. With a right
handler working. Smith, left-hand-
| ed batter. has the call. Both are fine
receivers and hard hitters. there be
ing only few points difference In
their ayera ges. which are above 300.
The catching the the worlds series
is sure to be in keeping with Ia
event.
downright, 1921 10y W. C. Evans.1
Evening star., 1921-09-24
K|RKE NEAR CHAMPION
WITH THE BAT IN A. A.

There seems little likelihood of Jay
Kirke of Louisville being dethroned
as the leading batter of the American
Association. The Louisville slugger
is maintaining his steady gait and Is
far in front with an average of 1881.
His closest rivals are Reb Russell of
sas City, who are tied for the runner
up honors with 1868. Brief Of Kansas
City is next with 1868.
Brief failed to increase his string
of home runs, his record remaining
at forty, but his great hitting has
enabled him to increase his lead as
q run getter. having registered 1856
times.
Baird of Indianapolis added four
more bases to his string Of thefts
and leads with 67.
Other leading batters:. -Acosta,
Good, Kansas City, .355; Fisher,
Minneapolis, .352; Hartley, Columbus,
BAT; Lear, Milwaukee, .346.
Evening star., 1921-09-24

GOOD catching is most essential to
~ the success of any ball club. Sell
dom is a team that lacks catching re-
turned a pennant winner in the
majors
The four teams now fighting it out
are all blessed with high-cl back
stops. Not only are all of them ex-
cellent mechanically, but they like
wise use their brains to decided ad-
vantage in their work. In addition,
several of them are far faster on
their feet than one ordinarily expects
of a catcher All of them are good
batsmen, their averages all being
around 800.
O'Neil Has Tough Year.
If Cleveland wins it is certain that
O,Neill will do all the catching. This
has been rather tough year Tor
Evening star., 1921-09-24
Gr Cain Bit in Race Amateur Go Title at Stake CLASSY Cache
Contributions to Matty's
Fund Approaching $4,000

NEW YORK, September "a
Contributions to the Matty fund
keep coming in fast and 1t
looks ms if there will be n
purse of $lO,OOO before the
gates are opened ut the Polo
Grounds next Friday. Yexter-
day there were three cOntribu-
tfOns of $500 each from George
w. Grant, president of the BOa-
ton Nationals; Price Mckinney
and T.. f. Smatherx, well
known hOrsemen. Daniel Brady
sent a check for 800.
1t IL expected that Matty Will
receive at least $3O,OOO as a re-
suit of the testimonial, which
will bring together the Giants
and the Braves in regular
championship game.