Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

THE LAGRANGE REPORTER. FRIDAY MORNING, 1 AUG 28, 1914 IN THE WORLD Of SPORT Bill Steelfe, Brooklyn* New > 1 Pitcher. G. I. L CLOSES SECOND SEASON . ~i -11 .;»(fr' >""|t Wmi the cuntenjt of .,Tu<;*ri«(r flN? ‘ '»•«*“ font little Gwygj#-Alulmnw l.agw!' IMt W»o|(> by American Praia Aiaoclntlon. BID Steele, former pitcher for tbe Pt. Louis Nalionnli, In now weering ft Brooklyn uniform, and be la exported • ito help keep the Buperba* out of the p«|)ar end possibly to lift them from jaevantb place to a higher standing. IHteelf. who In n rtirbk lernder, baa*.been (With the HI. lantln t'nnllnul* fqr, two or (three season* uml turn at time shown K bea of form, hut his work him not n consistent'. Recently he ha a been i weed principally on n relief pitcher. For the t'ardlunlM during the present *on- ■on be played to leVonfoon games, hua tteen credltml wltlT winning two. and I* charged with tt»e loan of two. hur ling the seventeen gumoa he Issued eight pasties and atruelc out thirteen. Bteelu was Itought outright by Owner pBbbeta. «,.<" 1 * Doping the Pitoh.rs. 1 This la the talc that is being told, ■tot only In the secret councils of tho (Glovelanil team, but even unto those (Who wait outside for newt: It appears that one of the Nap pitch •rs bad trouble with bis arm. They ■II base that kind of trouble, but tbls iwaa a kind of apectal trouble. No this pitcher consulted a doctor. “Doc,” ho said, "this wing la stiff, ■nd I want something to limber her UP" “Here’s the dope," answered the doc tor, taking a dark bottlo from the sbolf. ‘Til Inject a big dose of tbla in lyour arm. and In tho morning you'll he all right. If you're not, drop In again." lu the morning tho pitcher wfes there. * “Doc," says he, "the darn thing Is ■tiller than ever. 1 can't ever move It »ow.” ' "Iinpoaaljdp!" answered tho doctor fjwbat did 1 give yon?" '“Something out of that dark bottle on tho second shelf." “Did 11Inject It In tho arm?" | "Yea." "Poor fellow! I’m afraid 1 can't do dnythlng for you now. I don't know >how 1 came to make the mistake, but tliut bottle contained llt|ulil cement. Jl'he blamed thing is set by this time!" A Popular Turf Official, j The American turf uever hail a more gtopular or better known racing official jttiau Colonel Matt Wlup of Luulsvlllo, ‘Ky. Colonel Winn s tlrat active partic ipation Ip turf matters was in 1000. When bn was appointed manager of the New l.oulavltle Jockey club. Thin Old time organisation bad been con ducted on obsolete lines, with the re- suit that the directors had a great flnauclal burden to bear. Colonel Winn inimedtatcttr put Into play progressive Ideas by leasing aside ancient rules |apd regulations until he whipped itblngs Into such (diaim that in a few >yeara lie not oul.t brought both rsntug land llna nda I success to Churchill iDowtis. but s|so all raided attention to '^linaelf throughout the'western ooim- itry. Tinliiy thc New Koulsvllle Jbcke.v OlvRf in ope of Rio foremost racing or ganisations in the country. Jap Wrsstl^pa Canting. t i Headed by TwSktymnn. champion, a troupe of Hft.v four Japanese wrestlers are on their way'to tlilacountry. TaeUl- yamn has beeii the undisputed chain- iplou uf Jatan since be won the tltlu ill a aeries of desperate matches with contenders for the crown left by Blta- cblyama. aa old veteran, who wa»de- clared to b« the greatest of all Japan's champions. Tacbl.vama has amassed a fortune es timated at half a million dollars during b)a career He la a big. good natural n) R0 > standing about alt feet three inches and weighing about 610 pounds. He la said to Up quick hi spite of hts enormous vise. Many of these vvres tiara seem to ha. mountains of flesh, (which Is ‘-a* -adrantage at the Japa- ■oaa atyle »f vkroatlliig— In abort, fu- rtona bouta much like two bulla leek- Iqg horns "" Racing at Naw-Ortaana. | A race giwetlac covering ninety days |aaxt i winter la planned by business jmen ln New Orleans, whl are raising a ifund iof *60.000 to guarantee expenses (They bare leased the historic fair grounds. It la said, aad there will tie jao Interference with the oral betting gyatotn. officially closed its J^IjL sMUtora Selma cnplur'ln’g foremost honor#..,, The. <» campaign, although of rpttor jihort, duration, has been an evehtfu) one, and outside of Gadsden all of the club* have finished in a financial condition that insures baseball next year. The Gadsden problem remains trfisolved, but several other towns nr* elamoritift for entrance into the circuit, and it is probable that this franchise will be ■Warded to one of these during the ‘winter, Cedartown, ^yiffin ,awi-Car rollton hHve all three jx-^yiyjjd favor able mt-fitldn. " w ,, Tho league bus nrhvcd'very com* pact and a good ’ brsihtf of naii has been afforded funs of the organization. The clubs have not been held Ih'licNlrida by tradition, and. many unlqtte and originol occuranees have helped' to enliven play. Circuit wallops - have occupied the limelight from the start, and in one game Hevcn were register ed. On numerous occasions as many as four and five have been rung up by aspiring batters.. The season just closed is the second successful one that has been en countered. The present, organization was an outgrowth of the old South western league that contained several of the towns now composing the Geor- gin-Alabama. Many promising youngsters have been produced this past season and numbets of these have received calls to leagues ’of higher classification. Several have illready been recruited by Southern league clubs, while dur ing the coming week others will make their appearance in this company. Third Baseman Waldron will report to the Crackers on September 1. •Qnly one time throughout the whole peuson, which commenced in the parly part of May, wan Were trouble that threatened the existence of the or ganization, and ,thiv was the blowing up of the Gadsden club. But this was quickly disposed of when league direc tors adopted a plan .for the transfer ring of the club to leaguo authorities. This proved successful and the league finished out the'neiiHon in very grati fying munner. The Value of Good Clothes ... ■ > W ,W V It ALB H HEAD: Head.,wound.,-the -season up for \^ii- Granjre with a victory which reflect much credit on this popular twir)^y,|; LAST GAMES OF THE 1914 SEASON TALAI)EGA DEFEATS OPELIKA, The Indians defeated Opelika the fourth straight game at Talladega Tuesday in one of the most exciting games of the season. Thompson started the game for the Indians and when Opelika scored four runs, Knox took his place and pitched great ball. In the seventh inning with two on Knox hit a homer over right field fence, tying the score. Opelika made two runs in its part of tne ninth aa did the Indians, leaving the score a tie. Talladega put over the winning run in her half of the tenth. The fea ture of the game was the all round playing of Knox. Score by innings: * Total Opelika 04 000 002 0—6 Talladega 100 000 :)02 1—7 - well, Williams, Decatur, Garrett, Home run, Knox. Stolen bases, Shep ard 2, Blackwell, Newell, Chambers, Bases on balls, Davis 4, Thompson 1. Hit by pitched balls, Hodge, Crow. Hits, Davis 1. Wild pitch. Knox 2. Time of, game, 2:00. Umpire Davern ROME ENDS WITH VICTORY. Th* last game of the Georgia-Ala- bama league season was won b v Rome from Gadsden, 6 to 1. The game was featureless. Preceding the game field day sports were pulled off, and prizes to members of the two clubs. Eccentricity is not to be desired either in dress or manners. It is only another name for vanity. Still, there is something to be said for tnose of us whose circumstances often require i us to wear garments not out after'awari the prevailing mode. Good clothes, n , . however, made in uny fashion except) B c ° re by innings: the “latest extreme,” have a marked Gadsden 010 000 0 1 effect upon the mentul condition of, R°nie 401 010 x 6 the wearer. Even Emeraon designed^ Sumlnary . Xwo huH „ hitH| Taylor, to iIihcuhh the # im>rul effect suitable,.Moorefleld. Stolen bases, Reidy, Tay- clothes had upon certain tempera- j Alexander, Stringfield 2. Base ments. He says: If a nmn (or wo-1 ba)| F | owers 2 . King 3. Hit by man) have not firinneHs and have keen | itched ba | )s Flowers j, Ring 1. sensibilities, it is perhaps a wise ,^ truck outi p| owerst i ( Ri,,* 4. Time, economy to go to u good shop and dress irreproachably. One can then dismiss all care from the mind, and may easily find that performance an addition of confidence, u fortification that turns the scale in social en- 1:15. Umpire White. NEWNAN WINS LAST. Newnun won the last, game of the 1914 Georgia-Alabama league season counters.” You huve all heard the from Selmu Tuesday by the score 3 experience of the woman who declared to 0. The game was witnessed by a that the sense of being well dressed | large half-holiday crowd, and both gave a feeling of inwnrd peuce which clubs played a brilliant but feature- religion whh powerless to bestow.- Suburban Life, Tbe Countryside Mug- uzine for September. War Advantageous to American People .less game. Newnan won the game In the third innings, when Shirley allow ed a single and double which with a steal and base on balls, with a puss ball counted two scores. > Score by innings r Newnan 002 000 001—S Selma 000 000 000—0 Long Ed- Guitterrez. Summary: Two base hits, Atlanta, Aug. 27—Colonel William 1 ^''- Lawson Peel, one of the oldest and 5} b ? ’ i K onc - Maokev to Ed- most conservative of the Atlanta fV p on balls ^Whitney bankers, believes the war in Europe IV a , .- struck out Whitney % can but be of ultimate good for the Vasterhng. Struck out, Whitney 1, Struck out, advantage of the situation “The war will make the people more economical," he said. “They are spending too much on frivolities and saving too little. Until there is an adjustment, things will be tight. But ufter the war the prosperity of the United States will double and treble. Prosperity is in the making, because -o~*o—O’—^ o—o—o*~o—o d UNION GROVE. O—O—0—0—O—O—O—O—A Mr. Walter South and two daugh we sfiall learn to make more, to ton- .iters, from North Alabama, after serve our resources, to supply our spending several day* in this com own demands." i munity, left for home Thursday. One of the most immediate affects -A large crowd attended the camp of the war has been shown in the' meeting at rlat Rock Camp Ground, sudden doubling and trebling of the!) as t Sunday. Several from I.uGrange prices of many drugs which are ob- °tn®J' towns were there tamed solely from Germany. The Germuns are the greutest manufac turing chemists in the world, and -wheh their shipments were stopped there enxued a famine in many drugs. Local dealers have shot their plffees to the limit, guying the wholesalers have doubled prices to the trade. Jultey Suggests Nsw Rule. Arthur Duffey, (cower amateur sprint champion, remarks: “If well known athletes are to lie prevented from writ ing for newspa|>era or magaxiueH on .account of their athletic affiliations, why rtoemi't such a rule equally apply to some of the rulers of the game who receive emolument from such, source* simply because of their athletic aHUIa- tlons? "tlmll the whole fabric of tbe ama teur organization Is changed just *o KmK will It he unjust to discriminate against one body of tbe athletic gams." Mr. W. H. Middlebrooks, also Mr. H. C. Jackson, from near Glenn re turned home Monday after * pleasant visit with friends and relatives in and a round Chipley. Sorry to note that Mr. L. S. Hun ter is on the sick list this week, but glad to note his speedy recovery. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Middlebrooks, returned home Friday after spend ing several days very pleasantly with friends and relatives in and around Blue Shin. Mr. Carl Middlebrooks was tha guest of Mr- J. H. Hunter Thursday night Mrs. J. L. Hunter was the guest of Mrs. R. W. O’Neal Friday after- inoon. 1 •—*1 Rev. O. A. MSewTiWWrad through our community one day this weelt MoMahon a WhiU Hap*. Tom McMahon. Jimmy Dime’s ciehsy heavyweight, who put the crusher 00 A1 Kaufman In Bfteen aeconde recent ly, Is grooming for the championship. McMahon, while not M much heavier thau a middle, has a kick that made Jeaa Willard a wecond choice and:stood: up agalust the terrifle right of- Gun boat Smith. It 1* a fact thiii in every man ([not In every woman). there Iivea a Lover; a lover who t« called out In all bln potentialities often by the moat Ih- stgnlfleant little things—«s long aa they oeaae at the peycbojogtoel mo- moot; the glimpse of a face at an unusual angle, an evaoaasent attitude, tho curve of a cheek often looked at before, perhaps, but then, at the mo ment, charged with' astoniahlng signi ficance These-are great-aepatoriee, of oohrao.—From "Chance," by Joseph Caarad. HEAD WINS LAST GAME OF‘SEASON OFFICIAL STANDING OF CLUBS. (A La Df. Herring) -sy 1914 season to I.aGrange Tuaqdaj the score of 2 to 1. InsteadtT usual farce played by teams w the standing cannot be effected, game was snappy from start. Both teams fielded perfectly, and the feat- ^ ures were the batting of Tisdale and a long throw from left field by McLin, • GluhMtti ‘ er. p. W. L. P. Selma ...i... fil 35 635 Newnan .. . ...95 66 39 589 66, 36 # ffi. TRome 97 50 47 515 .vMraMZ Mfcp whp Rags' hit'the by taaaMNis AnniaUu»rn-~. Ddnhmsrmr'^h. McLin, If I ifuzuir. • .. Tisdale/P . . t araw&fi;: H«r Idea of Lawyers. “I am not guilty. If I had been, 1 n rnn-«t -the plate. Bob’ .vhould Jt/tyf enxaged alawyer!" was “ e observation of a vomit summoned ■* J ~ ^ *■— Darlington {England) San fold. 4he Wanted One hundred old feather bed-si. Pay highest CASH PRICES . . . . . Southern Feather Co. Phone 304 rvaK»<Jaie» ci. . . Batson, p ...3 0 1 0 3 0 Total* . .33 1 9 27 16 0 I^iGrange-r- if aV f h o a C Allen, 3b .. .4 1 T 1 i 0 Bannister, 2b. . ...3 o. 0 4 3 0 Zellars, If. .. .4 0 2 1 0 0 Williamson, rf. .. .3 0 2 3 0 0 Waldron, 3b. .. .. .1 0 0 0 0 0 Holland, kk. ... ...3 0 1 2 6 0 LnFitte, c ...4 0 1 6 2 0 Whitley, ef. ... . . .4 0 0 0 0 0 Amazon, lb. ... ...2 1 « 10 0 0 Head, p ...2 0 0 0 6 0 Total* . .30 2 7 27 16 0 Total Score by innings: LaGgange 002 000 000—2 Anniston 100 000 000—1 Summary: Two base hit, McLin. Three base hit. Allen. Stolen base, I-amar. Double plays, Holland to Amazon; Lamar to Stephenson. Sac rifice hits, Stephenson, Head, Holland, Base on balls, Batson 2, Bannister 5. Time, 1:35. Umpire, Blackburn. KOKIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY Atlanta. Ga. j■ - j t The South’s great s~fr Technical and Engineering School Ga. Tech Spells "Oppor tunity” tor the young men of Georgia and the South. Offers fan foar-jaar ooaraca in Textile, Chemical, Chril aad Electrical Engineering, and Architecture. tha graduates of ’'Georgia Tech” are In great demand, owing to tho offered at this Institution. Courses of study practical splendid training and thorough. For Catalog address, K. G. MATHE80N, President. Fifteen Free Scholarahipa For Each Conaty in Georgia. Mack Has Indian Battary. Connie Mack has an Indian battery In the incubator. If be ever geta to spring It be will have a buttery uuique in the majors, 11s the Indians are broth ers. Connie’s young redskins are John and Joe Graves. Joe, eighteen, la a pitcher, John, twenty, la a -catcher. They are fellow tribesmen of Chief Bender. Thw Graves brother* played ball 'an the renerratlon ami later at Flanilrau school. Joe attracted Maclfi attention while pitchlug for BraiHerd, yi«m**whv*re Joe Bush got his start Alas! After a prize baby ba* been photo graphed In nothing in particular it takes hut a short time for the llttta darling la reach years of annoyance.— Chicago News. LaGrange Foundry and Machine Co. We are now prepared to make all kinds of castings from iron and brass! and to repair machinery of every description. Our foundry is mbdarn in every detail, being equipped with the latest machin ery and appliances. We have secured the services of workmen of long experience and whom we know are in every way qualified to give perfect satisfac tion. Our machine shop is equipped with the latest machines and tools and our workmen 111 this department are also capable of turning out high class work. COMMUNICATE WITH US IF YOU NEED ANYTHING IN OUR LINE. IT WILL FAY YOU GOOD SERVICE AT REASONABLE PRICES IS OUR POLICY. P. S. BRING ALL YOUR OLD IRON AND BRASS TQ OUR SHOPS. WE PAY HIGHEST MARKET PRICES. LaGrange Foundry and Machine Co. 19c SATURDAY ONLY FRESH LEMONS. PER DOZ. 19c 1 Sanitary Food Specials for Friday, Saturday and Monday White Rose Ceton Tea, Package 3 Packages 10c Post Toasties, for Sunbeam Peanut Butter, 3 jars - Deviled dines, Can Sar 10c 25c 25c 10c Thanksgi ving Rolled Oats, 15c Pack- 10c age for Climax Roast Coffee, 41b. can 86c B. & M. Fish Flakes, JZ 10c and 15c 10 lb. Bucket White Lard for only Flake $1.00 Portland can Clams, 10c Cooked 21b. can Brains 25c 5 Gallons Chalybeate Water, $1.50 |J qq value, for Cali 502 For Fresh Vegetables LaGrange, Georgia i INDISTINCT PRINT