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Tirr ATr ant a geottotan and news. GREAT SCENE Pol, y and Her Pals Oprright. 1*14, !■' The Old Man’s Good for Bait, Anyway WIN OPENER By Trims Brown. A S that mass of humanity rose and roared yesterday after noon, ait the band of bras* crashed out a martial air whose first bars even were d r owne<3 by cheering, the clamping; of cow bells, the tooting of horns, the shrieks of automobile sirens, as those hundreds of red-blood ed people, bankers and artisans, financiers and clerk*, clubmen and laborers joined on common gTound, and shouider to shoulder, marched the blue-coated, apoplectic musicians to voice and demonstrate their enthusi asm, I longed for the present of some of our critics from across the fea, who are always prone to shout that our sports are too commercialized to per mit genuine enthusiasm. That crowd yesterday would have been a better answer to that crltisicrn than 10,000 words written by our ablest defenders. It was a sight worth going miles to see. I have seen the surging crowd at the running of the Futurity in the days that are gone. I have seen the hysteria with which the winner was greeted. I have heard that awful roar that comes from the rival stands when toe meets football and armored athletes clash in their classic annual strug gles. Is have seen hundreds of men stand Shrieking as one man batters another Into slow but inevitable submission. But I have never seen demonstra tion to equal the one on Ponce De Leon field yesterday afternoon. • • • I T was a climax to a wonderful day. As early as noon the stands began to fill. These early corner* w-ere the dyed-in-the-wool bugs, the fellows who never know what it is to mis* .1 ball game, men who would sacrifice job and health and anything else rather thar. miss such a critical com bat as yesterday. / By 1 o’clock the stands were prac tically filled. By 1:30 o'clock, when plffy was called, they had overflowe d. It was truly a typical American gathering. The spirit of the Republic was more evident there than In any convention of a political party ever assembled F.very das9 was repre sented As standing s pace became of value. I saw business men of the highest standing, climbing fences like 10-year-olds. I saw society belles calmly seated on the red clay ground regardless of future of dainty dressee. 1 saw newsboys become supremely important personages because they were possessed of a soda water box on which to seat themselves. Not onlv were the Stands packed but there was a brilliantly gay throng from the left field foul-line around to the line that marks fair territory in right field. • • • T HAT crowd was never silent for a second. Every noise that could be made that crowd made Every move that favored Atlanta was greet ed with a demonstration louder than the one Just preceding. until it seemed that the limit had been reached. But when the winning run was scored the noise that had resounded before sounded like a pin drop in a boiler factory. The shouts must have been heard in East Point. Certainly the spirit of enthusiasm pervaded Fulton and DeKalb Countie*. And then corner the sad part. That crowd, the crowd that did all and wculfl have done more for the Crack ers was the direct cause of the Crack ers not scoring a double victory. The three-base hit of Paulet that scored Mobile’s tying runs that forced the gam’ into extra innings and con sumed valuable time would have been easily captured had not the presence of the crowd interfered with Out fielder Nixon. Again in the tenth inning. Wallle Smith’s drive to left would have been an easv home run. but the fact that It went into the crowd made it a three-base hit. and more of those priceless minutes were lost bringing him from third home. • • • A ND the demonstration itself. The crowd surged on the field. It ran wildly for awhile, then it formed an i marched, and more time was taken. Eighteen minutes were consumed in clearing the field. The allotted time between games is ten minutes. . Those moments that the crowd wasted might have been enough to enable the Crackers to have taken both game*. Diamond Stickpin For Tommy Long GARDEN CITY. N. Y, Sept After a week of interesting play :n the. annual national amateur cham pionship tournament at the Garden City Golf Club the issue now lies be tween the present holder of the title. Jerome IV Travers, of Upper Mont clair. N. J.. and John C. Anderson, of the Rraehurn Club of Massachusetts, former amateur champion of the Bay $tate. * Travers earned the right to be a finalist by winning his match from Fred Herreshoff. Anderson qualified for the final by defeating Charles Evans. Jr., of Edgewater. HI., the punner-up last year to Travers. An derson’s golf all through the week ha* been very steady, each round be ing done In 79 or better, so that his defeat of Evans was not unlooked tor by the conservative element. Has Fate Robbed Atlanta of Rag? +•+ Fed* +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ C. Thompson Looked Like Winner By Lou Castro. H AS fate beaten the Crackers out of the Southern League pennant for 10X8? After trimming the Hulls fi to .*> In the first game, the locals looked like sure winners In the second combat. The calling of the second game, however, forces the Crackers to heat Chattanooga this after noon, while Finn’s uien must, drop one of their two remaining contests to the Pels. | At the present time both teams have about an oven chance for the flag. But, had the locals been able to finish the second game they would have surely copped. Carl Thompson was going strong, and It Is doubtful If the overworked Hogg could have stood the strain much longer. A vic tory for Smith’s crew In the final game meant the pennant. The Crackers knew It. The Gulls knew It, and every fan in that ball park knew it. • * * S TILL you can not beat fate. The second game started at 4 o’clock. The rival managers had agreed to stop play at 4:40, no matter how the count stood. To complete four and one-half Innings In 40 minutes was Impossible. The teams started to play, but after going three Innings, the contest was called, as the time was up. True, the Mobile players stalled, but where is there a hall club that wouldn't have done the same thing? They were fighting with their backs against the wall and were out to take advantage of every opening. If they dropped that second game to the boys from Atlanta It meant the pennant, and they were out to save themselves. Fate did It for them. • * • N OW that the great series Is over, there is one player who Is scampering around the shortfleld for the Crackers who deserves much credit. Rtvlngton Blsland Is the gentleman, and he Is certainly a wonder. Never have I seen a boy deliver the goods In the pinches better than Blsland. Hts work at short was simply wonderful, and It will be some time before local fans will see it duplicated. I have watched such stars as Wagner, Barry, Wallace, Klherfeld and Bush In action, but Bisland's work In this series has never been equaled by any of them. He covered the territory between second and third in great style, and more than once raced in hack of Holland for seemingly impossible grounders. Once he got his hands on the pill his throw to first was like an arrow His two one-handed stopB yesterday were surely remarkable. If some major league club doesn’t grab this boy next Beason I miss my guess. And It's a 100-to-l bet that he will make good, too. He lias the class, and class tells. * * * N EXT to Blsland Joe Agler was the shining star for the Crackers. Joe played great ball, both at bat and in the field. It Is my opinion that Agler and Blsland are two of the greatest players in the Southern League. Going back to the game, I want to say a few words about Wallle Smith. Many of the fans had thought Wallle was about through after he made four errors the other day. Wallle certainly redeemed himself in the eyes of the fans yesterday when he lined out a triple in the tenth inning of the first game. The crowd was all that robbed Smith of a home run. The hall cleared Clark’s head by twenty feet and would have been a home run on any field. Ground rules, however, kept him from circling the bases. He was forced to go back to third, but later scored when Robertson dropped Manush’s fly. • • • IT AD Robertson caught that ball the game might have gone on indefl- *■ nitely. The ball was close in and chances are that Smith would have held third Billy Smith made a good move when he yanked Holland and sent Manosh to bat In his place. Before I finish this story I want to say a few words about Billy Smith, manager of the Atlanta liasehall club. I have been on his club for two seasons and can truthfully say that there Isn't another manager In base ball to-dRy who labors under the strain this man does. Trne, he doesn’t play, but If he was an active member of the team it would be better for him. I watched him during several stages of yester day's game and it is really surprising to me that he didn’t collapse. He is without a doubt one of the hardest losers in the country to-day, but a good fellow with it. * * * ITT ELL. the big series is over, but we still have a chance to cop the rag. * V Remember, to-day's game is just as important as any of the bat tles just finished. The Crackers must win to-day if they hope to cop the pennant 1 will he out there for one. and I hope that another record- breaking crowd will be out to cheer the gamest hall club Atlanta has ever had to another victory. The fans that are out at Poncy to-day will also have an opportunity of getting the scores of the Mobile-New Orleans game. They will be posted on the score-board. JOHNSON CITY VICTOR. • KNOXVILLE. TENN, Sept, fi — Johnson City won the tecond game of the Appalachian league pennant se ries from Knoxville by a score of 5 to 2. H. Welchonce Breaks Hit Record for Season Harry Welchonce, the Crackers’ star batsman, grot three hits in five times up in the game with Mobile Friday afternoon and ran his string for the season up to 192, according to unofficial figure*. The Southern League record for the number of hit* made in a season was 191, made by Frank Huelsinan in the season of 1901, when a member of the Shreveport teum. The last time that Huelsman was in Atlanta was as a member of the Mobile team a few years ago. Welchonce closed the gap on Dave Robertson for the league batting hon ors. Only one point now separates the two star stickers, with Robertson still in the lead. Here is the way the two star stick ers stand today: Player G A B. R H P C. Robertson 133 508 86 173 .341 Welchonce ... .144 564 86 192 .340 GOLD, SILVER LORGNETTES. ■w style, large round lenses; t or long handles. The latest rns. Sterling, shell and gold. C. Hawkes Co., Opticians, 14 tehall. M'HARG CHAMPION SHOT. i CAMP PERRY. OHIO, Sept. T -By i winning the Individual Palm Beach match with an army rifle. Major W. Hart McHarg. of Canada, becomes the individual champion of the world, by having a toal t-f 220 out of a possi ble 225 on the 800. '.*00 an<l 1.000 yard ranges Captain Neal Smith, of Can ada. was second, with a score of 220. and Lieutenant George Mortimer, of Canada, third, also with^po. Fund for Crackers Amounts to $431 Now The purse which is being raised to be presented to the Cracker players, to be divided equally among them, is still growing. Several large subscrip tions came In last night, and a num ber of others have signified their in tention of sending in their checks to day. On account of the wonderful fight whien the 1913 Crackers have put up. and the way in which they have placed Atlanta once more upon the baseball map. It has been decided to give them this purse—win, lose or draw. The presentation may be made some time to-day, probably at the game this afternoon. This has to be done, in order to let each man be there when it is divided, as a number of the nlayers leave for their homes on Sunday. Mr Montgomery, of the Coca-Cola Bottling Works, who is out of the city at present, wired yesterday to put his company down for $100. Lee Hagan, of the Red Rock com pany, personally subscribed $25, and several other business men stated that they would send in substantial checks to-day. but would not state what the amounts would be. The total now is $431. REDS TO PLAY BLUES. KANSAS CITY, MO.. Sept. 5.—The Cincinnati Nationals will play exhibition games with the local American Assu ciation here October 2 and 3. Father Time With Deadly Scythe Rushes to Rescue of Beaten Gulls CRACKER CLUB IS VANQUISHED, THOUGH VICTORS By Fuzzy Woodruff. A TLANTA won. And defeat was the Cracker*. Mobile lost, and when the Gull* departed from the stricken field of Ponce DeLeon they were tasting the sweets of victory. The statement sounds paradoxical, but the paradox is true. For to the losers belonged the spoils, while the winner’s share was the headache. A happier, more radiant, more su premely contented face has never been seen in Atlanta than was the Fenian physiognomy of Finn as he left that battle-plowed, rain-soaked field. A more despondent, heartbroken wight than William Andrew Smith at that time has never appeared outside of a stage snowstonp. And William was the victor. Mique was the vanquished. • * * T ET us pause and analyze this con- ditlon under which oil mixes with water, streams run uphill, theft be comes honesty, raises in saiary are given unsolicited, and other rank im possibilities become stern reality. When Finn led his Gulls into this city of Southern progress, William Andrew Smith had to lead a forlorn hope that makes Pickett's charge at Gettysburg appear as easy as pick ing cherries off papa’s tree. With a club that had but recently recovered from a slump he was com pelled to face the leaders of the league, before whose attack other clubs in the circuit had fallen as chaff be fore the wind and riders from the water wagon on the first bump after New Year’s Day. • • • F OUR game* were scheduled be tween the Crackers and the Gulls. Experts agreed that for the Crackers to have a reasonable chance for the Southern League gonfalon nil four of these battles must be taken by Atlanta. Writers got out their trusty book of adjectives, picked out “Herculanean ’ and then began to describe Smith’s task. Then let the epic poet twang his lyre and tell in rounded phrase and tinkling Jingle the gallantry with which William went about his laborn. Marco Bozzari*, the gent who awoke the Turks; Arnold Von Winkelrisd. the warrior who rpafie a pin-cushion of himself for the Independence of Switzerland: Nathan Hale, who did a soft-shoe dance on atmosphere and wished for the lives of a cat in order to take his encores, had nothing on the sublime courage with which Billy and his Crackers tackled the job. * • • T HE first game was an Atlanta vic tory. The task ceased to be Her culanean. It dwindled to monumental proportions. j .A second victory re duced if to Just plain tremendous. And then came a drawn battle that sent Smith back to the Herculanean job of winning two battles in a single day, equaling, if not bettering. the batting average of N. Bonaparte, a major leaguer of the early part of the late departed century. Smith didn’t quail. He resumed the role of Hercules with as stout a heart as ever tripped inside of hunun carcaj’s. He fdught desperately for the first game of this double affair. He won it. He fought desperately for the second. He was not defeated by the Gulls. He was downed by Father Time, a war rior who has been able to dispose of every champion who has ever sported laurel wreath or The Police Gazette belt. To-day he stands a vanquished conqueror, through no fault of his. Had the figure in the silhouette robe with the populite whiskers and the agricultural impliment, that is pic tured as being chased by a chubby infant every time the Old Year dies, not cast his shadow over the ball lot, had not some untoward fate caused the New York-New Orleans Limited to be on time for once on yesterday afternoon, there is every probability that Atlanta would be leading the league standing by one full game to day, instead of the top of the per centage table being tied in a knot as fast as master mariner can make. * • * I T was palpable yesterday that the Mobile ciub had realized it was beaten, practically before the ath letes trotted on the field. Weirder support than was given “Pug” Cavet in the opening session has rarely been seen. So securely did the game seem tucked away that the Crackers eased in their attack to hurry matters and make the second game sure. Of course, there is where Smltn or the officers of the Atlanta Baseball Association or .somebody erred. There should have been no chance of the second game being called without five innings being played. It was known, days and days in advance, that the Mobile club would have to leave the ball park at 4:40 o’clock yesterday afternoon to com plete th'dr schedule at home. It was known, weeks and \veeks ago. that Southern League games played in less than two hours are rarities. But only three hours were given for the playing of the two games, when the ten minutes’ rest between struggle* is deducted. • • • THE Atlanta club could have had * the first game called at 10 -o’clock yesterday morning a* well as 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Not one paid admission would have been miss ing. Still, the club fixed the hour at 1:30. and the club, and the club alone, is responsible for the fact that the Crackers, instead of being in first place by a margin so comfortable that it would be desperately hard to overcome, are but tied for first place, with the schedule so arranged that there is only the barest possibility that Atlanta can finish in front. To-day Atlanta meets Chattanooga, an admittedly formidable club. To day Mobile meets New Orleans, ad mittedly the weakest club in the league. To-morrow the season of 1913 is a thing of the past for At lanta. To-morrow Mobile meets New Orleans. It is decidedly problematical, after the strain of a series like the one under which the Crackers labored while they were fighting the Gulls, that Atlanta can come right back an3 take the dangerous Elberfeldans into camp. It %s altogether likely that Mobile can beat the tail-end Pelicans twice in two days. • * • A TLANTA can win the pennant under these x»fiditions: (1) Defeat Chattanooga, while Mo bile loses one game to New Orleans. (2) Lose to Chattanooga, while Mobile loses twice to New Orleans. (3) Win from Chattanooga, while both Gulls games are being rained out. (4) Have rain in Atlanta while Mo bile is losing one or more games. The conditions seem numerous. Just try to figure out the number of ways in which Atlanta can lose and then send a hurry call for an adding ma chine. • • • T HE Crackers have displayed a won derful nerve during the Gulls se ries. They may still be w 7 orklng at top speed against the Lookouts. They may win the pennant. But golden opportunity was lost when Atlanta took a chance on let ting Father Time enter the lists, for old Father has won all of his battles, save the one that Is stMl being waged with Lillian Russell, and he may get her yet. Cracker Manager Believes Pelicans Will Give Gulls a Fight BILL SMITH PLANS TO PITCH DENT T0=DAY By Bill Smith. W E are not through yet. Not by a long sight, and I’d rather use an adjective that begins with “d”. ends with “n” and has “am” salted in between. I am confident that my club will come back to-day and beat Chatta nooga. I am equally confident that Cholly Frank will come through with at least one victory over the Gulls. Then the pennant will fly at Pone*’ DeLeon. I don't believe that after the hard, game fight we have made that it’s on the cards for us to be euchered out by that slip-up in time that halted us yesterday. I believe that the best team will win. and Tm dead sure that the Crackers form the best team. After cussin’ ourselves a bit for our slip-up, let’s get right down to rea soning. and when we do we will find that the sun is still shining and that bacon and eggs taste about as well for breakfast this morning as they did yesterday. • • • T REALIZE that we are up against 1 just as tough a proposition with Chattanooga as we were with Mobile, maybe just a bit tougher. But it seems our luck right about now to be able to beat the tough ones. "The bigger they are. the harder they fall. ’ old Bob Fitzsimmons used to say. Well, that’s about how we feel toward the lookouts. We have been able to take their measure pretty consistently during the season. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be able to repeat when we come to the pinch. I see where Coveleskie worked yes terday. That means that the Big Pole will not work to-day. Sommers worked the day before. It’s hardlv likely that he will appear at Ponce DeLeon. Then Elberfeld has Kroh, of his left-handers left, and Kroh has been mighty easy for us. and I know we can take any of his right-handers Into camp. If I don’t change my plans at the last moment. Elliott Dent ^1 be my selection for hurling duty to-day. Pie looked a bear yesterday after I sent him in to relieve Price. He worked four innings and I believe he will be just as gopd to-day. If he Is. I will be surprised to see the Lookouts score a stngle run. For he had about everything yesterday. ♦ • • N OW to leave our own affairs for a second and take a journey down by Mobile Bay. Finn wili have the advantage, of being at home, and there’s no doubt about that being a big advantage. But I have rarely seen a club in worse shape for two tough games than the Gulls are right now. It is an absolute cinch that he will not be able to use either of his star hurlers, Cavet and Hogg, against the Pelicans. They have already done the work of a pair of truck horses. He might use Billy Campbell in one of thef-x* games, but it s no easy jqb for an athlete as ancient as Billy is to come back after a game like he had Thursday and work, a good game as early as Sunday. Mique will hav-^ to use either Berger or Robertson in one of these games and I believe that the Pelicans can trim either one of them, especially if Frank has Wilson cocked and primed for the fray. • • • A ND don’t think for a second that those Pel.games won’t be tough affairs for Finn. These tali-end clubs have an awful habit of spilling the beans for league leaders. In addi tion to this there is not one speck of love lost between the big Dutch man. who is the boss of things In the town where the gin-fizzes come from. <md the big Hibernian. who holdn forth with the oysters and oratory of the Gulf coast. It’s a pipe that Frank will try his best to trim Mique. More power to him. I mean it for more reasons than one. too. 6f course, I don’t blame Mique for wanting to win a pennanL I’ve got a hankering of that kind my self. but I’ve got a mighty fine hunch that Finn handed the Atlanta public one yesterday. W HEN it became certain that we couldn’t ~et through with th^ second game before train .time, Presi dent Callaway went to ihnn with a proposition. Here is what he agreed to do: He offered to charter a special train for the Mobile club, the train to con sist of two Pullmans and a diner and the limit of expenditure was the blue sky. He offered to dig down in his own pocket and pay for this if Finn would consent to play out yester day’s second game. Would Finn do It? Hardly. He knew that his club was on the run. He knew we would trim him that game as sure as it was played out. No inducement could get him to stay. He was content to stall around and let a train schedule keep him from defeat. That may be sportsmanship. I’m not saying, but Td hate to wear a title of “champion” won by any such methods. Travers Will Face Anderson in Final At the start of the 1913 season Henry Muench, the Peachtree street jeweler, offered a diamond studded stickpin to the Atlanta ball player scoring the most runs for the sea son. Tommy Long, the speedy left fielder of the Crackers, gets this pin for a total of 110 runs to date. The pin is a handsome piece of jewelry in the shape of a bat, with a big cluster of diamonds at the end. In winning this prize. Tommy Dong broke tne league record for runs scored by a big margin, the previous figures being 99 runs, made in 1902 by Gus Hill, of Nashville. The pin will be presented to-day and. says Mr. Muench, "it was surely well earned.” ,CrackersDeadGameTeam’-AgIer •J-a-F *{••*{• +•+ 4*#4* Boys Swept Gulls Off Their Feet By Joe Agler. W ITH the ending of the most crucial series of the year the Crackers hare proved themselves to be one of the gamest bunch of hall players that ever trotted on a diamond. Entering the series with the odds against us we have accomplished the task of taking three games from the Gulls and held them to a draw In the other battle. Never once during these trying games did one of the boys show the white feather. True, several of us made errors, but the nervous strain the boys labored under was terrible. Every play practically meant a game and a pennant. On the other hand, the Gulls had very little to worry about at the start. They came here one confident ball team. All they needed was one victory. * * • A ND the loyal support the fans gave us made the boys fight doubly hard. Most of us are sorry that the second game wasn't finished. We would surely have got to Hogg before long as he was fast tiring. Thompson, on the other hand, was fresh and eager for the fray. He had had a long rest and was going great. Of course, we do not feel that we have been beaten out of the flag yet. We play Chattanooga to-day and, believe me, we will be out there fighting every minute of the time. If the Pels can only take one game from Finn's crew we will be one happy lot of ball players. I really think we have proven ourselves to be a better ball club than the Gulls and the pennant really belongs in Atlanta. We beat them three games, and only the toughest sort of luck robbed us of the fourth. * * , D URING the second game the players offered to charter a special train to take the Mobile team to New Orleans If they would only consent to finish the second game. This was sure true sportsmanship, but the Gulls could not see it that way. They probably had enough of us during the four games we battled them. Never once during my career as a ball player have I been connected with as game a bunch of ball players as I am with now. If this team Isn't the best ball club in the Southern League then I don’t know what I am talking about. And I can safely say that had these same boys been to gether all season that we would have been so far In the lead at this time that this series would not have been necessary. I was to say a few words for Blsland. The way this hoy played was certainly wonderful. He is easily the best shortstop in the Southern League. His stops and throws have anything beaten that I have looked at for a long time. Another feature of our playing was that every member fought for the team Instead or for Individual honor. We stuck together at all times and the scene after each game in the clubhouse will be remembered by the boys for some time. All of us knew what we were up against and went into every game In a “do-or-dle” spirit. * • * S EVERAL of the Mobile players admitted to me after the game yester day that we had it on them. They also admitted that the gameness displayed by the hoys was unlooked for by them. They really expected little trouble from us when they came down here for this series and were handed the surprise of their lives. As for the Mobile team, we have nothing but praise. They played clean ball. Most of the boys felt somewhat peeved when the team didn't accept our invitation to finish the second game, hut I guess the nervous tension the players were working under had them pretty well worn out. We sort of expected a hard battle, as we knew what we were up against, but they thought it would be an easy matter to capture one of the games! T O-DAY’S game brings us against the Lookouts. We must beat them to have a chance at the rag. The boys know what this game means, and we'll be fighting just as hard as we were against the Gulls. It is my humble opinion that Finn’s crew will have the time of their young lives taking two games from New Orleans. They were certainly one fagged-out team when they grabbed a rattler for home last night. The Pelicans have been taking things easy lately and are primed for a good struggle. And I also have It from a good source that Finn and Frank are far from being good friends. Charley Frank Will Try to Beat Gulls CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Sept. 6. Mobile Is not going to win the two games with New Orleans that prob ably will be required to win the pen nant without a struggle. Charley Frank stated here yesterday that he and his team had been looking for ward to the Mobile scries for days and that they would go into them deter mined to win at least one. Finis Wilson, the Pels’ southpaw crack, has been saved up especially for the Mobile series. It had been Frank's intention to use Peddy in the other game, but the spitballer was used in three innings yesterday. Either he or Walker will be used Sunday. Frank is confident that one of these pitchers will win a game from the Gulls, leaving It up to At lanta to win Saturday's game from Chattanooga. Sudden illness of Floyd Kroh changed Elberfield's plans for to-day’s game, and Coveleskie, though he worked five easy innings yesterday, in order to cinch fourth place, will prob ably pitch in Atlanta to-day. Motorcycle Races Postponed Again The motorcycle races last night for the benefit of Jock McNeil’s family were postponed on account of rain. They will probably be run off Friday night of next week. The program scheduled for last night will be run off as the regular Tuesday night program, and if it rain? Tuesday night they, will go over until Wednesday. Wonderful Blood Remedy Brings Health to a Host of Sufferers The remarkable action of 8. S. S. in the blood Is giv en Impetus by a letter received from Earl C, Cook. 708 South Center St, Bloom ington, 111. 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