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The United States Going to Have the
Hardest Kind of a Struggle to Hold
the Davis Cup This Year
New Yark.—Close 'students of ten
nis here admit that the United States
is going- to have the hardest kind of
a struggle to hold the Davis cup this
year. The Yankee chances are only
fair,
hast year Maurice McLaughlin
played remarkable tennis and gave
promise of better. R. Norris Williams
2d, did wonderfully well in 1913, but
everybody then thought his game this
year would be equal to or be above
MeLoughlln’s.
It was a foregone conclusion that
Harold H. Hackett’s playing star was
on the wane, and that his double
matches, in which he and MoLough
-lin defeated the British champions,
Roper Barrett and Dixon, probably
would be his last appearance in in
ternational tennis.
No Immediate Fear.
But with the. exit of Hackett there
was no immediate fears as to the pos
sibilities of building up a first class
doubles team, for evPry one realized
that there were at least a dozen play
ers in American who could be devel
oped into worthy partner? for Mc-
Laughlin. That no player who could
he thought of could play the style of
game which Hackett played so well
did not seem a hindrance at the time,
for it was realized that any of the
possibilities would make up by indi
vidual strength and ability what he
might lack in playing for team work.
So, with the certainty of McLough
lin and Williams improving a great
deal, and with a dozen other young
players and veterans showing form
that would mark them as Davis Out
timber, things did not look so bad,
hut many close students of the game
had a feeling within them that some
thing wpuld go awry. Then, too, at
that time, there was no definite
Woman Drives Motorboat Through Waters
of St. Lawrence at Fastest Clip Yet
Undergone By Any of Her Sex
Alexander Bay, N. Y.—Mrs. Alfred
Graham Miles, daughter of George C.
Boldt, the hotel man, has just aston
ished landsmen and St. Lawrence river
men alike by driving the 2'2-foot P. D.
Q. IV through the water at 47 miles
an hour. This is the fastest any wom
an ever drove a high-powered motor
boat. Many men would not be able
to exhibit the nerve, strength and en
durance necessary for her feat.
After a record-breaking perform
ance she did not seem to think her
feat was such a noteworthy one. She
was not the least bit shaken by her
speedy trip through the waters, which
were none too smooth. She shook the
water off her oil-skins, removed the
mask-like arrangement which pro
tected her face and. said she thought
she could do better on another trial.
Mrs. Miles may have a chance to
race, in Lake George regattas. If she
does so those who saw her drive P.
D. Q. IV are confident she will make
the tiest of the men drivers look to
their laurels. That Mrs. Miles can
drive a boat in competition was shown
when she raced with her husband in
trying out P. D. Q. IV and P. D. Q. V.
Great Skill. *
Mrs. Miles held her own in the
race and showed great skill in hand
ling her craft. The boat which was
driven by her husband Is a twenty
six footer of greater, horsepower arid
has traveled as fast as fifty-two miles
an hour In trials. Mrs. Miles has al
ways been a great lover of sports. She
| is a splendid tennis and golf player
| and is active in many other lines of
j athletics.
THOSE 1 111
OOIMLHpiEHS
Has Been Tried Out by the
Southern League With Great
Success—Why Not Else
where ?
New York. —Why not limit the dou
ble header games to seven Innings
each? It’s a scheme that has been
tried out in the Southern leagues with
great success.
Two seven inning games in one af
ternoon would give the average fan Just
about as much baseball as he could
comfortably absorb. It wouldn’t force
the hall player to the extreme limit of
hvi endurance, end, best of all, It
would enable the fan to get home In
time for a warm dinner.
Cutting the double header game to
seven Innings would do no one harm.
It would do plenty of good. Cutting
off four innings from an afternoon’s
baseball session would mean lessen
ing the. playing period about one hour,
and, therefore, the pastime would end
before darkness settled over the land.
The season of double headers Is now
upon us Kvery fan Is keen about tak
ln In p big bargain hill, but along
about The fourth or fifth Inning fit the
second game the exhibition becomes
monotonous. Of course. the greatest
majority of the fans stick to Ihe bit
tor finish, but they stick not ho much
because their baseball appetite isn't
satisfied but because tney want to sen
Just how the Karrie will finish.
Most double headers begin about two
p. nt„ allowing something over two
hours for each game and a 15 minutes
intermission botwen eombata. It
means that play doesn't end until
S:.'iO. That means that the fan dnes'nt
get home until from 7:15 to K p. m.,
owing to the delay In getting out of
the crowded park and the usual delay
caused by the slow moving fleet of
special siren ears. And every house
wife is fully agreed that 7:15 to K p.
m. is "too darned late for any man to
expect his wife to keei, dinner sim
mering.'’
If the games vuTfi cut two Innings
each, the playing period would he les
sened about an houif. which would
mean that the final Innings of the
second game would not have to be
played by torchlight and that father
would get home on time to dine with
the rest of the family.
The seven inning double header Idea
probably will prove to tie a popular
one with the fans and It Is likely that
If the agitation assumes sufficient
volee that the ruling powers In base
ball he«d It and amend their laws so
that seven Inning double headers will
ce the rule starting with thu 1815
i season.
!HE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA.?
knowledge that four of the world’s
foremost players would band together
on one team in an effort to carry off
the cup.
Four Players.
The four players, Anthony F. Wild
ing. Norman K. Brookes, Alfred W.
Dunlop and Stanley N. Doust, have
joined forces as an Austrnlsian team,
however, and give promise of being
the men who will face the Americans
in the challenge round at the West
Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, L. 1„
on August 13, 14, and 15. And, too,
although Mcl.oughlin is now playing
in his usual meteoric style it is doubt
ful if he has Improved ajny, for his
business has kept him awgy from the
courts a great deal since last year, and
he has not had as much practice as
he should have had.
Moreover, Williams has shown signs
of slumping and Instead of his game
advancing to a marked degree. • it is
said by those who ha»e seen his play
this season to nave retrograded con
siderably, Both Wilding and Brookes
have beaten MeHoughHn. and as these
men have been playing all season in
lOngland, while Mcl.oughlin has been
without practice, the young Califor
nian should have a hard time beating
either of them in the singles. The
form shown by Williams ha? made It
necessary for the Davis Cup commit
tee to go out in the highways and by
ways in search of someone who will
lie able to make a creditable showing
should Williams fail to Come up to the
required standard.
Alt of the doubles possibilities that
looked so. feasible last year have melt
ed off into thin vapor, and now it
looks as if Mcl.oughlin and Thomas
C. Bundy, the holders of the national
title, will be the only pair that can
can stand against the great Brookes-
Dunlop combination.
She and her husband supervised the
building of the P. D. Q. IV and the
P. D. Q. V. The boats were built for
the purpose of winning hack the gold
challenge cup which was captured by
Captain Casimir Mankowskl last year.
P. D. y. 11l lost the trophy to the
Count’s Ankle Deep. The races for
the cup will h« held on Lake George
late this month. The two P. D. Q. s
are being turned up to compete for it.
Much Faster,
The trophy was raced for in the
Thousand Island waters for ten years,
and held there until Ankle Deep led
the way to the race with P. D. y. 11l
The new boats are said to he much
faster than last year’s craft, and they
have shown enough speed in their
trials to warrant the belief among
friends of Mr. and Mrs. Miles that
the cup will be returned to the Thous
and Island Yacht Club.
The boats were built at Mr. Boldt’s
Thousand Islands estate, and Mr. and
Mrs. Miles watched carefully over even
the smallest details of their construc
tion. They seem well satisfied with
the two boats, and while they are not
predicting that either Will lift the con,
their friends are predicting this result
for them.
Motor boat racing at Lake George
will he a feature this season. Many
owners of last boats have I heir craft
a< anchor now on the up state lake.
The days from now untij the gold
challenge cup contests will he busy
ones for the motor boat owners. Home
fast time, it is expected, will he made
In the trials during the turning-up
work.
FETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
TOWNS AND MUNICIPAL COURTS.
Augusta, Ga„ .Inly 10, 1914.
To the Editor of The Heritid.
Sir: I notice in the columns of yotir
edition under date of the 7th Inst.,
that the County Commissioners at
their lust meeting unanimously adopt
ed resolution asking Richmond county
representatives not to take any steps
to abolish the so-called justice of
peace courts and place In lieu therd
lor a municipal court, on the grounds
that a justice oT the peace, appeared
before them and advised that the'
municipal courts now being tried by
our sister cities had proven to be un
satisfactory. There is not the least
bit of doubt but what the municipal
courts are unsatisfactory to such as
Mr. Nurnberger as it puts a crimp in
the little games that are being played
by t;ie little .1. P.’s nowadays. If our
commissioners had had dealings with
the .putieo courts as a great many of
the people have, the, would have
tinanlomuely voted to abolish such
courts.
Would you, Mr. Commissioner,
agree to the Judge of the superior
court taking a suit against you for a
vast amount, on percentage basts,
ending in nis own tour. and acting as
judge over his own case? No. You
would not stsnil lor It. Neither does
the law allow It. Hut you state plain
ly lu your resolution recently adopted
that w<j working people whose ac
counts, etc. are small anti always fall
in the .1. IV* courts, must stand to be
sued by them In tIMi own courts,
they taking fair Hflrl IMPARTIAL
trial as requir- d by law. Your suTls,
etc., ate generally too large to he
handled by these courts while ours
are small and wa have to suffer at
their hands.
You claim that the municipal courts
are untried, (f you would Investigate
the reports coming from cities now
having such courts, you would form
a different opinion. The Justice courts
have been tried fot%many tears and
have proven VERY IJNSATISEAC
TORY. and I am sure the majority of
the people would be more than glad
to give anything a trial In preference
to the present courts.
It Is said, and In most cases proves
Itself, that when a lellow makes a
failure of everything else he comes
to town, gets hlrn a Law Dlctionery
and a Georgia Reporter and bacorn s
a justice of peace. He not being fa
miliar with the laws renders guess
work decisions and in many cases
causes high cost of a pealing.
Much an evil should not be allowed
to exist Other cities art-'abolishing
tl cm with satisfactory results. "WHY
NOT PROGRESSIVE AUGPRTA?”
Yours for municipal court,
ROSE COPELAND.
HIB Reynolds St,, Augusta, Gtt.
THE ADVENTURES
—MB— ■■HillHl —III 111
The store of the most brilliant and thrill
ing motion picture drama that
has ever been staged
By Harold Mac Grath
The Adventures of Kathlyn is the most fascinating story of
love and adventure that you have ever read. It is the latest and
greatest work of that famous author, Harold MacGrath. It is so
thrilling a story that as soon as the manuscript was finished the
Selig Polyscope Co. secured the Motion Picture dramatic rights and
proceeded immediately to spend a fortune in properly staging the
play and producing the motion picture films.
This groat drama mn»iml for its production 27 full length
reels and wherever it has been produced it has
Packed the Motion
Picture Theatres
In those extraordinary plays you witness a living drama of
Love and Danger and Intrigue that enthrall you from the start.
You see the hair breadth oseapes of the most daring motion pic
ture aetress in the world, the beautiful Kathlyn Williams, leading
lady for the Selig Polyscope Co. You see her lured bv a false mes
sage from her father’s peaceful home in California. You see her be
fore the Oouneil of Three in the Royal Pa la re of A Italia,’ crowned
the unwilling Queen of a wild race of people in the midst of the
jungles of India. . / &
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You see her hound by fanatical natives on the top of a giant
funeral pyre and watch the flames creeping ever nearer her helpless
form. You see her tied with thongs in a tiger trap as human bait
for the blood thristv beasts of the jungle. You see her swimming
for her life to escape a maddened water-buffalo in the black writers
of a Bengal river. Time after time, in scene after scene, this
actress takes her life in her hands and walks grimly up to the very
jaws of death in order to portray with lifelike realism the actual ad
ventures of MacGrath’s heroine.
And the story of Kathlyn is just
as thrilling as the pictures are.
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The Adventures of Kathlyn is
The Herald's New Serial.
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This Thrillling Moving Story
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