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The Americus Times-Recorder
IHIKTY-FOURTH YEAH.
TRAP SHOOTERS OF STATE
TO MEET- HERE NEXT MONTH
Third and Fourth of July Will Be Made Gala Days Here
in Connection With the Meeting of the Trap Shoot
ers of the State—Practice at Club Grounds
An event of interest will be the
first state meeting of the Georgia
Trail Shooters’ association recently or
ganized, which will meet here in an
imal session on July 3 and 4.
Americus has been successful in se
curing the first two sessions of the
organized association, which
came into existence as an organiza
tion at the recent Southern handicap
conducted at Columbus.
It is fortunate that Americus was
enabled to secure the first two ses
sions of the newly organized associa
tion, which will meet here July 3-4,
for the 1912 session, and will also meet
here next year for the session of 1913.
The Americus Gun club and trap
shooters throughout this entire sec
tion are especially interested in the
meeting to be held here soon, which
promises to be of unusual interest and
• access. Preparations are already be
ing made to entertain the visitors
when they come.
In order that the greatest interes'
possible may be aroused here not on
ly among the members of the Ameri
icus Gun club, but also among all
who like trap shooting, the courtesies
of the Gun club grounds will be ex
tended to every trap shooter in this
section who wishes to practice at the
TROY BUNCH
DEFEATED IN
A SLOW GAME
THE SCORE WAS ONE-SIDED
Better Same Promised For
Today
In a one-sided game the team from
'Troy, Alabama, was defeated by the
locals yesterday by the score of 12 to
t. The Troy team was so completely
outclassed that it was unable to push
a single run over the home plate.
It was evidently an off-day for the
players from Alabama, who are mani
mestlv capable of playing better ball
than the article they put up yesterday
afternoon. A much better game is
promised for today, and a large bunch
of fans will be on hand to enjoy the
game.
Yesterday’s box score was as fol
lows:
The box score follows:
Aniericus— ab r h po a e
Robinson, If 4 3 3 0 0 0
Vibert, 2b 3 11 1 0 0
McLendon, 3b 5 1 0 2 0 1
Howell, ss 5 4 5 2 0 0
Rope, lb 5 1 2 11 0 •'
Hooks, c, 5 2 3 9 0 )
Wilder, rs 4 0 11 0 0
Norton, cf 3 0 11 0 0
Raker, p 4 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 12 15 27 0 0
Troy— ab r h po a e
Lee, 0., c&cf 4 0 1 2 0 0
Blackwell, ss 4 0 0 2 1 0
Dickerson, if 4 0 0 1 0 0
Schwartz, lb, 4 0 4 12 0 2
Lamar, rs 4 0 0 0 0 0
Compton, R„ 3b 3 0 0 0 5 9
Compton, 0., p.&2b. ..3 0 0 0 1 0
Hamil, es 0 0 0 1 0 9
Lee, (}., 2b&p 3 0 0 0 4 0
Murdock, c 3 0 0 6 1 0
Totals 32 0 5 24 12 2
Summary—Two base hits, Howell,
Rope; passed ball, Hooks (2), Mur
dock (3); base on balls, off Lee 1;
struck out, by Baker, 8, by Lee 5, by
f ompton (1); wild pitches, Baker (1),
Lee (2).
Time of game, 1:35. Umpire Me-
traps between now and the coming
meeting.
There will be a shoot at the club
grounds this afternoon, also one on
Thursday afternoon. This program
will be maintained each week, snoots
on uesdays and Thursdays, until the
‘meeting occurs here in July. For
this reason local trap shooters will be
given an excellent opportunity to get
into shape for the tournament.
At the state meeting here there will
be present shooters from all sections
of the state and of the Southern states
so that the event W'ill be one of un
usual importance to all who like trap
shooting. A dinner will be served at
the Country club at the July meeting
by the ladies as a benefit for the Coun
try club. This will 'prove an occasion
of unusual interest.
As there will be two fast games of
baseball here on July 4, it would seem
that the celebration of that day this
year will be as elaborate as it was
last year, when probably the largest
crowds ever known at a Fourth of;
July celebration were present to help
in the enjoyment of the occasion here.
The ball game schedules for the day
have not yet been announced, but it
is known that they will be fast
games.
JUDGE CRISP
WILL RETURN
m FIRSI
TO MME ACTIVE UNPIIOI
Will Speak Throughout the
District
Announcement was made yesterday
at the Crisp headquarters here that
Judge Crisp will return from Wash
ington July Ist to take active charge
of the conduct of his campaign for
congress.
A complete speaking tour for Judge
Crisp will be arranged covering every
county in the district, but only a part
of this has been completed so far.
The first speech to be delivered by
Judge Crisp on his return will be at
Ellaville on July 2, the second wil
be in Fitzgerald on July 4.
Further than this the schedule has
not been arranged, but it will be
completed when Judge Crisp returns.
Encouraging reports continue to come
into the Crisp club headquarters here.
It is believed that Judge Crisp is
gaining strength daily.
DEATH OF MR. JONES
OCCURRED SUNDAY
Interment Took Place Here
Yesterday
Mr. R. T. Jones, twenty years old.
the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Jones,
residing on Jackson street, died Sun
day of typhoid »pneumonia after an
illness of only a few days’ duration.
The deceased had resided here six
or eight months and was esteemed
among many friends. The funeral
services conducted by Rev. R. L.
Bivins, were held yesterday afternoon
at 3:30 o’clock from the family resi
. dence, with intermeut in Oakgrove
cemetery.
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OFFICERS OF
COUNTIES TO
MEET TODAY
IN REGULAR ANNUAL SESSION
They Will Assemble at Indian
Springs
Jackson, Ga., June 17.—The annual
meeting of the County Officers’ asso
ciation, embracing all county offi
cials, will be held at Indian Springs,
Tuesday and Wednesday,. June 18
and 19. The association has a mem
bership of several hundred in the one
hundred and forty-six counties of
the state, and it is expected the ses
sions •will be largely attended.
The convention will be called to
gether Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock
in the assembly room of the Wigwam
hotel by President C. M. Wiley, ordi
nary of Bibb county. The address of
welcome will b edelivered by Hon. J
T. Moore, representative from Butts
county.
A number of matters of impor
tance will be discussed during the
two days’ session. Among the topics
that will be brought up is the effort
to have all county officers elected for
terms of four years.
The railroads have been asked to
give reduced rates for the convention
and as Indian Springs is centrally lo
cated it is expected more than three
hundred of the five hundred members
of the association will be in attend
ance. Hon. D. M. Wiley is secretary
and treasurer of the association.
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Southern League.
Atlanta 9, Nashville 2.
Montgomery 2, New Orleans 5.
Birmingham 3, Mobile 0.
Chattanooga 0, Memphis 1.
South Atlantic League.
Jacksonville 5, Savannah 1.
Macon 2, Albany 1.
Columbia 0, Columbus 3.
National League.
Pittsburg 4, New York 3.
St. Louis 1, Brooklyn 3; called in
seventh on account of rain.
Cincinnati 3, Boston 4, first game;
Cincinnati 5, Boston 0, second game.
American League.
Boston 4, Chicago 1.
Other games not scheduled.
THE WEATHER. Probably Local Thunderstorms Today.
CAPTAIN COBB
IS ATTENDING
CONVENTION
OF STATE COUNTY OFFICERS
Which is Now in Session nt
Indian Springs
Captain John A. Cobb, ordinary of
Sumter county, is now in Indian
Springs in attendance upon the session
of the county officers association of
the state which is holding its annual
session this year at the popular re
sort.
The county ojficers’ association is
one of great popularity among the
officers who are admitted to its ranks,
which include the judges of the court
of ordinary and the clerks of the va
rious courts of the state, he clerk of
the court here was unable to attend.
Captain Cobb has attended the meet
ings of the organization with great
legularity ever since he became ordi
nary. Last year he went to St. Mary’s
to the session held there. He is one
of the most popular members of th%
organization and is widely known to
the various county officers of the state.
PLAN GREAT PUBLICITY
FOR CITY AND SECTION
Board of Trade Will Hold Meeting at New Headquarters
Tonight-Public is Cordially Invited to Attend
Plans for wider and more helpful
publicity for the city and section, es
pecially for the farmers of Sumter
county, were discussed at a recent
meeting of the Board of Trade. The
committee on publicity and advertise
ments held a special meeting to de
vise methods for advertising the agri
cultural advantages of the county aud
section.
It was agreed that the rich lands of
the county should be advertised still
more extensively, this being a very
important part of the publicity work
that should be accomplished by the
Board of Trade. The effort will b 9
made to interest the owners of these
lands in carrying on a thorough and
systematic campaign of publicity.
It is to be the effort of Secretary
Patterson, of the Board of Trade, to
see the farmers who are interested in
this and to solicit their aid and sup
port in the work. All who are in
terested in the matter are cordially
GARDNER WAS
ARRESTED ON
GRM CHARGE
MADE DY HIS DAUGHTER
He is Now Held For Further
investigation
John H. Gardner, a carpenter em
ployed here, spent yesterday and the
day preceding at the police barracks
where he was held upon the charge
of attempted assault upon a membe
of his own household, a girl of nine
teen years, who made the charge
against him.
The Gardners have had two rooms
on Prince street, and the charges were
made Saturday morning to the lady
from whom the rooms are leased. The
arrest of Gardner followed quickly
When seen at the barracks yester
day he strenuously denied the charge
and declared that it wis instigated in
a spirit of revenge.
He stated that he insisted upon the
girl retiring at an early hour, that
she might arise earlier and prepare
his breakfast, and this fact caused the
trouble. The case will be fully in
vestigated. The Gardners came here
from North Carolina in January.
invited either to call on Mr. Patterson
at the new Board of Trade headquar
ters in the Commercial City bank
building or to address him there,
i A meeting of the Board of Trade
■to be held tonight at the board’s
headquarters in the Commercial City
bank building has been announced by
Secretary Patterson. It is hoped that
every citizen will attend the meet
ing, as the effort will be made to
widen the sphere of influence of the
organization and to unify and enlarge
its work here.
The secretary now has an office in
i the Commercial City bank building
and every one interested in the work
of the organization is cordially invited
to call at the office and aid Mr. Patter
son in every way possible. The initial
> work done by Mr. Patterson here for
i the organization gives indication that
he will be able to accomplish much
good in the work that this important
r eommercial body is to do.
REPUBLICANS WILL MEET
IN CONVENTION TODAY
All Preparations Complete For Struggle Between Taft and
Roosevelt Forces—Will Nominate a Candidate For
President
Chicago, June 17.—With less than
twenty-four hours remaining before
the crash of the gavel will be heard
in the republican national convention
the Roosevelt and Taft forces this
morning staked final hands in their
bitter struggle.
The real things that were happen
ing today were entirely lacking in
the spectacular. It was while en
thusiastic bands were playing about
headquarters of the delegations and
while admiring throngs sought to
catch glimpses of political heroes that
the final heartrending, mind-breaking
struggles were proceeding within
quiet rooms.
In these last clashes there was no
place for the weak man. Contending
leaders who have spent their lives
working to perfect every artifice in
the game of politics brought to bear
examinations and quizzings that
amount to the “third degree” upon
recalcritant politicians from many
states, and the men heard forecasts
of what would happen to them a
year from now, two years from now,
or four years from now unless they
agreed to abide by the demand made
upon them.
he fire was merciless and as it
continued the keen-eyed sleepless in
quisitors, whose brains were keyed up
to the last degree of reaction, watch
ed for preliminary signs of panic or 1
break.
TO TURN
ELECTORS
FROM TAFT
IS THE THREAT DF FLYNN
No Elector, It Is Said, Would
Dare Do It
Philadelphia, Pa., June 17.—Poli
ticians of all shades of belief in Phila
delphia were astonished by the revo
lutionary utterance of ex-State Sena
tor William Flinn, who is in Chicago
as one of the Roosevelt lieutenants,
and who declared that he would swing
the Pennsylvania republican electors
for Roosevelt, no matter who the re
publican party nominee might be. On
all sides it was the one topic of dis
cussion, and nearly all agreed that
Flinn had gone a step too far in
his partisanship.
Presidential electors are chosen at
the state convention of each party.
Their names are placed on the ballot
under their party name. Theoretically
they are voted for by the people, and
if elected they are supposed to use
their discretion in naming a president
and vice president in the electoral col
lege. By long custom and by actual
performance, however, they have be
come morally pledged to their party
candidates for these two offices, who
ever they may be. No violation of this
pledge is on record, though an effort
was made in the Tilden-Hayes contro
versy of 1876 to have an elector val
late his moral obligation and he re
gused. Even the effort was bitterly
denounced.
Flinn’s proposition, local politicians
say, aims to make the Pennsylvania
| electors depart from this time-honor
! ed custom, break their pledges, dis
grace their party and besmirch them
! selves, tl is doubted here if Flinn
could induce his electors, even his own
tools among them, to take part in such
a scheme. No matter how rabid
they might be in their Rooseveltism, it
it not thought they would dare to hold
themselves up to calumny by such an
act.
Many regard Flinn’s statement as
the last vain threat of a boss who
knows that his candidate is doomed
ito defeat in Chicago. In some quar-
Over one side of the struggle thers
ruled the master hand of Roosevelt,
, and waging against him were men
whose political keenness would stand
i. world test.
After Taft Delegates.
Summarily the situation is whether
the “republican elephant” will re
spond to the vigorous digs of either
of two contending drivers, or whether
it will twist its trunk about each of
them and hurl them aside to go Its
own way. There were indications
that the last contingency is not at all
impossible.
In this connection it became appar
ent that the division of delegates
between Roosevelt and Taft on tho
question of nomination does not hold
on any other proposition to come be
lor the convention. This was shown
plainly by the attitude of the Vir
ginia delegation. Although practical
ly all are for the renomination of
Taft, nine of the Virginia l delegates
declared they would vote to override
the action of the national committee
in seating Taft delegates over Roose
velt delegates from California, Texas
and Washington.
This sentiment among arriving
delegates was seized upon quickly by
Roosevelt and his advisers who have
determined to attempt to break down
President Taft’s strength in the con
vention through the medium of pre
liminary ballots.
GOOD ROADS
FEDERATION
JILL MEET
IK ATHENS, M, NEXT WEEK
Local Delegation Will Attend
Meeting
Next Monday and Tuesday there
will assemble in Athens the regular
annual session of the Georgia Fed
eration of Road Authorities. A dele
gation will go from Aniericus and
Sumter county to represent this coun
ty ?t the meeting.
Probably no county in Georgia can
boast of better roads than can Sum
ter, and there will be a delegation
lrotn this county at the meeting. The
committees of the federation have ar
ranged a very interesting program
for the meeting, one which will have
unusual practical value.
The request is made that every
board of county commissioners la
rhe state be represented by at least
cne delegate. The committee on ar
langements has provided for a num
ber of addresses on interesting sub
jects. The University of Georgia has
recently established a chair of road
construction and a laboratory for road
material. The aid of this authority
will add interest to the meeting.
stay of the delegates in Athens will,
be made very pleasant, as special
provisions have been made with this
end in view.
ters it was ridiculed, in others it was
viewed with alarm, and in almost all
it was hailed as sensational. A few
of the local pro-Flinn outfit regard it
as a master stroke, but most of the
Rooseveltians in this city refused ye
terday to make any comment upon iL.
TWO DAILY WORKOUTS
FOR THE OLYMPIC TEAM
On Board Steamship Finland at
Sea, June 17.—Via Wireless) —The en
tire United States Olympics team, ex
cepting the cyclers. Is training stren
uously aboard the Finland. All the
athletes who Trainer Murphy today
declared to be In the very pink o*
trim, are going through two dally
workouts.
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