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ROT IN RUSSIA. :
Pinsk, Russia, is said to be'a place
of great promise; Pinsk has too
many vowels to make good.
Loss of Stars Threatens Crimson
With Most Disastrous Season
in Recent History,
By Monty.
EW YORK, Sept. 18.-—-Har
vard’s regal sway at the top
of the football situation will
be ended with a dull thud this year
unless all indications go astray. With
practically all of its great 1914 eleven
Bone—the only sMr left is Captain
Eddle Mahan, and the only other reg
. ulars are Wallace at center and ar
son at tackle~—the former rulers of
the gridiron universe appear to 'he
‘unblased observer to be in for a most
disastrous season. Three teams-—
Yale, Princeton and Cornell—are ‘cer
tain to beat Harvard, we belleve, and
there is a poasibility that the Crim
&on may bow before three others—
Colby, Carlisle Indians and Peun
Btate. Should all these catastro
phes occur, the score for the season
. would be three games won and six
lost, for a percentage of .333.
When the champion Athletics were
broken up last winter, terminating the
existence of one of the greatest bHase
ball teams that ever played, theve
were still some who thought the Phil.
adelphians would make a fight for the
pennant, and named them along with
the Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers
and Chicago White Sox as contend
ers for the American League flag, Not
your Uncle Monty, He nominated
the Athletics for last place, a bad last
—and last they are. The loss of a
handful of stars changed the team
from a top-notcher to a trailer,
The same condition will be found
to prevall at Harvard this fall. Brick
ley, Hardwick, Bradley, Francke, Pen.
nock, Trumball, Coolidge, Logan and
others of the championship combina~
tion are gone. Harvard partisans
proclaim loudly that the famous Per
¢y Haughton system will provide men
almost thelr equals from a bunch of
substitutes who saw a few moments
of varsity play last year. It can't he
done-—not on such a large scale. Gil
man and Cowan, lineman of two years
ago, are ligible agaln, and then there
is Enright, the Exeter boy, who
starred with the freshmen last vear.
These three are the only really first
class men In slght to take the place
of the veterans lost.
Together with Mahan, Parson and
Wallace, they complete a total of six
a-n of recognized foothall ability,
en ltke Brickley, Hardwick and
Pennock don't grow on treees, nor
are they developed overnight: so we
fail to understand where the Crim
son's optimism comes in, where
Hanpghton is going to make stars out
~of & sow subs like McKinlock, King
and Watson. No; ‘we fear Harvacd
s due for a terrible fall.
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Welch and Kelly
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CARLISLE, PA., Sept 18.—The
¥ Indian football coaches who have suc.
. eeeded Glenn 8, Warner. who has gone
+ so the University of Pittsburg from
the Carlisle Indian School, are Victor
-M. Kelly and Gus Welch.
! The pair will unite this year, giv
» Carlisle an all-Indian combination.
o Kelly and Welch are tactful
; ::f\‘d should be able to develop
much esprit du corps among the red
- skins,
- As the coaches do not know just
: who will return to school and have
not yet had a line on the new mate
rial, n:mlcucm can be made as
- to the P of the 1915 Indian team.
READ WHAT SOME OF MY CURED AND BATISFIED
PATIENTS SAY
Bclence is on the wing. Treatments lnq ggo
(ur(w Are back numbers now. l"‘o be a .
NOTCO Specinlist requires not only skill and en
ergy. but capital. The public is not ‘?""l’fl.‘ with
the dootor who sticks in the OLD RUT. 1 am
prepared to give my patients the benefit of all the
'r«fit disocovaries as soon as they are perfected
‘.,n;«r. come to me because they read my
STRAIGHTFORWARD fnnouncements or beeause
I bave cured some of thelr friends,
Ev er{ testimonial 1s on Nq‘ in my office. 1 nev.
er publish testimonials withou consent of patient
EXTRACTS FROM A FEW OF MANY SWORN
TESTIMONIALS,
T. L. Davidson, 301 Crew Streal. Atianta, Qa.,
says: “About five years ago Dr l&\i\lhu oured me
of & chronic oase of Kldn" and Bladder Trouble
after many doctors had falled *
R W. Btatham, 1114 Candler Buildi , Atlanta, Oa. “Dir.
Wughes cured me of a ouse of Ecsema '&-t had resisted l:o best of.
forts of other doctors.”
T. ¥. Beall Lafuyette, Ala, sayve "Dr. Hughes cured me of -
ehronle case of Constipation and Plles without euuln(’; pain of inconven.
fence, and I conslder the money | pald Dr. Hughes the best investment
1 ever made In my life.”
I bave used Balvarsan and Bactering In hundreds of cases. Each
case | treat now Kets the advantage of this vast experiance. In my
b 8 these remedies cure;: In inexperienced hands nng Ars worthiess.
‘h.um.u.m, Acne, Skin, Abscesses, Bronchitle arbuncies, Bowe!
and Liver Trouble, Qall Stones, Kidney and Bladder Aliments, Blood
Disorders, Plles, Varicose Veine, Weakness, Nervous Debllity, Catarrhal
Discharges and many other discases of men and womaen are cured. What.
ever your allment, call
I will examire you: it Reconsary make a chemioal and mtmo.mp~
foal analysis of sscretions to determine pathologionl and bacteriological
oonditions. Your oase may be one that has heretofore been conmidered
practically incurable, but it wil {ield to this new method of treatment
when intelligently and skillfully administered
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money as well as years of .uflnlng !vor‘y!mn%emfldomu. a nr,:
measure of success attained by me In treating o stinats conditiong
dus to the fact that | personally examine every patient.
1 am not connected with AnYy other Doctor Hughes traveling arcund
through Georgia represanting himself to be the artrfnu Atlanta specialist
Any announcement of mine will be sigred
HOURS: 9 to 12 and 2 to 7; Sundays, 10 te 1 eniy,
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161, N. Broad St. ATLANTA, GA.
Alexa Stirling’s Golf Looks Like
-~ Sterling Mark on Silverware
Continued from Page 1. |
Her swing is full and graceful—but it
comes on the ball with a vicious lash,
whipped through with an entirely
magculine power of wrist and grip.
the blade biting down on the ball
firmly and clipping the turf on the
far side.
And the ball says “snick,” and it
gets up, and it goes away from there |
with a back-spin that holds it
straight and carries it far and drops
it dead.
If you can hit a golf ball that way,
you can play golf,
And here is a point or two about
the swing, for the swing's the thing:
Miss Stirling uses the overlapping
grip—an exact copy of Harry Var
don’s own, In fact, ilf she had hands
like a bunch of bananas, her grip
would look precisely like Vurdon‘l.‘
Miss Btirling’s hands are not large,
and they are well shaped, but !ari
more muscular than the average
feminine hands, and with fingers long
enough for the Vardon :rlp—v\(hlrh‘
is no grip for short fingers. |
Uses Carnoustie Swing. \
Miss Stirling’s swing is a reduced
duplicate of that of her toacher——‘
Stewart Maiden. Stewart began |
teaching her the game when she was
a small girl—§ years ago, in fact—
and siie grew Into that celebrated
Carnoustie swipe until it is as fa
miliar to her as the manipulation of a
knife and fork. Her swing is abso
lutely unconsclous, and that is an
other point where she has it on all
students of the game who do not take
it up in early life,
‘When she is hitting a full brassie
shot, she does not have to bother
about keeping her right knee rigid, or
her left arm stralght, or her left wrist
under, or her elbow in, or any of the
other essential points that devil the
life out of the consclentious tyro.
Miss Stirling merely considers the
distance and the direction, and lets
the shot have plenty ot power—both
ering not at all about the details,
which take care of themselves beau
tifully. She swings well because she
can not help ‘t. If you asked her to
raise her right elbow, or bend her left
one, or drop her right shoulder, or
turn her left wrist upward, she would
have to stop and consider how to do
these things—all of them belng
wrong.
lruld: “Please swing just on the
turf.”
Real Oolflng Form.
She sald: “Flick!” That is, the
ivory-faced driver did. And then:
“Clip!"” That was the full iron. And
the “flick” shore the grass, right to
the turf. And the “clip” sent a dain
ty divot rglnnln: away--and they
both did it EVERY TIME.
After all, that is :omn’, form; the
abllity to do the same thing In the
same way, every time,
In the interstices of the club-swing.
ing I regarded the clubs.
As I sald, it was quite a sackful. 1
forgot to count them, but I recall
thirteen, which Miss Btirling carries
in a blg match. That may be un
incky. But there are a lot of cups
and things in the Stirling home. You
might make a pun on sterling. I
ain’t.
Miss Stirling does not use them all,
however,
“I used only one wood club at On
wentsia,” she told me. “That old
black spoon over there. I couldn't
use my driver at all”
The driver (it was sol®d with
brass) had an ivory disk in the face
and felt quite heavy for its size,
"I think that's it"” Miss Stirling
We Couldn’t Get to the Fight Last Week, So We Went to See ’Em Dance at the Forsyth
‘ Dr. Heaning Wins Medico Golf Title; We HTope the Docs Too/g Their Medicine l:i/ee Men
| said. “I don’t like heavy clubs.”
| 1 asked her if she didn’t find trou
ble timing her swing with light clubs.
It was an i{diotie question. I remem
bered later that Harry Vardon uses
clubs nearly as light as Miss Stir
ling’s. And I never saw him much off
in timing--not so I could notice it.
Anyway, she sald no, and flicked off a
clover-top with the little black spoon.
&übn Are All Small.
I measured the clubs with which
Miss Stirling played at Onwentsia.
The spoon, which she used as a
spoon, a tee club and a brassie, is
38 1-2 {nches long; just the length of
the average man's iron. Her full set
—but here are the figures, as prom
ised:
BIIVEE isiiissohesrsnnviniy DDNS
BOOOR . iv i R
SRI ivssheeneihe kive R
EIPOMIAE 100 D . cuvnoessnsise BB
BRABRED s vhcovrsissriscivncs AR
BOAYY BRI o oiooeveeives N
PR oy sk tiraseiis B 8
Aluminum putter .......... 80
TR DU . oiviisrinnrina B B
The “pet putter” is always In Miss
Stirling’s bag.
“It 18 a club from the first set I
ever owned,” ghe gaid. “A little put
ting cleek made for me by Jimmie
Maiden. It is a treasure from its as
soclations-—and it is a' very useful
putter on rough greens. I didn't use
it at Onwentsia.”
The other clubs In Miss Stirling’s
bag, reserved for special occasions, or
to “change off” to when one of the
favorites goes lame, Include two
brassies, a cleek and a broad, heavy
mashie, *
Miss Stirling has a very flne cleek,
but she doesn’t use it often. “I really
don't find much reason for it on this
course,” she said. “If I can't get
home with an {ron, I take the spoon.”
And about her game.
Straight golf.
Uses Nothing Fanoy.
Miss Btirling’s best shot is the
mashie pitch to the green, but she
uses nothing fancy—straight piteh
ing, with a sharp break in the wrists
that bringe the club up quickly and
makes the ball sit down like the be
loved poached egg previously men
tioned. She does not use the cele
brated “cut shot,” that will almost
make a ball bounce backward, so
powerful is the drag.
“It's a grand shot,” says Miss Stir
ling, “and 1 love to watch Edward
Ray play it—he does it .wonlerfully
with that mashie niblick of hlu.‘
But——"
The Southern champion shook her
head, and there was 4 trace of resig
ndtion in the gesture. KEvidently she
coneidered Ted Ru{ as something alse
again., The straight piteh, then; de
livered crisply annd firmly, taking
plenty of turf.
The “push shot?”
“If I*ever play it, I don't’know it,”
Miss Stirling says.
In the short approaches she varies
the pitch with a run-up when the field
is clear. For this she uses a mashie,
and plays the ball almost opposite
the right foot. The chip shot she
plays nearer off the left foot; it is
really a little pitch-and-run as she
plays it
“And I love to play niblick pitches—
when 1 have to,” she says, That ‘s,
when there is a guarding tng close
to the pin, and it's either the cut
mashie or the niblick pitch to hold the
pill out of trouble. She plays it out of
trouble, too, af'd on the eighth hole
at Onwentsia—but wait a bit,
Uses Heavy Ball.
Additional evidence that Miss Stir
ling 1s a .hard hitter is found in the
| ball she uses—a Baby Dimple, one of
the smallest and heaviest balls made,
and a great favorite with the “pros.”
Most women like the Glory or the Req
Dot, or some other ball that will get
away fast from a light wallop and
sit up, well on the turf—and float in a
water hazard. The Baby is a refrac
tory infant, If you try to kid with it
You have to spank the Baby solidly
to get results. You have to be firm
with It, for it is full of devil. And
then it will bore its way savagely
through a head wind, and roll far
over baked turf, and go down when it
gets to the tin. That is, it will for
Miss Stirling.
But what s the real theory of Miss
Stirling's game? Why is she alrealy
A very great golfer and getting to be
a greater every day? ghy are we
all nominating her to be national
champion next year?
g That brings up the previous ques-
ON
gow )dm;c she do 1t?
Y plaving the game ONE SHOT
AT A TIME. . ¥
Think that sounds silly? Try it
over again—it's the winning game
|ln o
Each Shot Separate.
Playing her tee shot, Miss Stirling
does NOT think, “Now, if 1 get 180
vards, that will leave me an iron to
the green; but if I get only 180, I'll
'hnv‘ to put the wood to it; and a
slice will put me back of the treas,
and a hook will put me In the rough. |
and either will cost me an extra nhnt‘
getting clear™
; No-—she plays that tee shot as If 1t
were the only shot to be played, She
plays It just as well as she can, with
every ounce of that 122 1-2 pounds
Concentrated on hitting the ball hard
and straight, and no part of her mind
and heart on the shot that will come
next,
And when she comes to the second
shot, be it iron or brassie, she doss
NOT think, “I ought to have got a
better and longer drive, and be in a
better place; and it's tough luck that
the ball 1s lying cupped; and I am al,
most certainly going to have a mean
pitch to the green for the next.”
No-—she considers the shot all ny
itself, forgetting what went before,
and not bothering about what will
come after,
She plays the game ONE SHOT AT
A Tl.\!g‘.. And she gives THAT SHOT
everything she has of skill and de
termination and courage—all her mind
and heart go riding on that shot.
And thus it comes about that the
NEXT one usually {s easier, because
she plaved the ONE SHOT well.
Shows in Her Game.
And that is the winning ?mo in
golf, You must ruv it one shot at a
time, and give that shot all you've
got, whether your name {s Harry Yar.
don or “Chick” ¥vans or Jerry Tra
vers—or Alexa Stirling.
Take Miss Stirling’s play on the
Eighth Hole at Onwentsia, in the hig
mateh, A sliced drive put her di
recently behind a line of trees on a
Roomerang Hole. If she had wasted
time regretting the slice, or calculat-
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1915.
ing how far she could get on her
ithlrd, it she played her second
stralght past the bend, she would
‘have lost the hole. But she was play-
Ing one shot-—the shot before her, And
‘that niblick pitch of hers, played with
every ounce of power she possessed,
}got up, and sailed merrily over the
trees, and came down in the fairway,
Just a little pitch from the pin.
That's the kind of stuff that stands
the gallery on its collective head.
And on the 150-yard “one-shot”
hole, with a stiff wind straight in her
face, if there had been the remotest
thought or worry about prospective
piteh shots or long putts under that
red hair, she would have needed the
pitch—and also the long putt, prob
ably. But she was playing one shot
~—and she put all her strength and
skill and experience and heart into
the lashing iron stroke that drove the
ball, straight as a ruled line, to with
in elght feet of the cup; dead for a 3,
And it does seem too bad, and a
grim toueh of irony, that the shot
that cost Alexa Stirling the match
with Mrs. Vanderbeck and probably
the national title was missed simply
and purely because she played it
boldly, and the way it should have
been plfi/ed.
ashie Strikes Roots.
It was not far from the edge of the
fourth green, the twenty-second hole
of the match. Miss Stirling was there
In two; her opponent was farther ofti
in three, mut her chip shot rolled up‘
dead for a 5. It was Ina driving rain,
and 310,000 worth of feminine finery
was going to pot in the gallery. With
the raln beating about her ears (a
most confusing thing, in itself) and
the match hanging on her next stroke,
the Georgia girl played her mashie
with all the confildence, and firmness,
and crispness that have made it the
best shot in her bag.
That was the trouble. A duffers
shot—scuffled off the surface of the
turf—might have half-topped the ball,
rolling, near enough to the flag to
get down safely in two more. But the
true mashie Shot cut down, not into
smooth turf, but a tangle of wiry
BTass roots.
The club stopped as if in cement.
And the ball merely hopped up in the
air and came right down again.
Well, well—and what did Alexa
Stirling do, when It was all over; and
her putt for a half falled to go down; |
and the hardest match of her llfe.i
In the biggest event, was gone? |
Did she take advantage of the rain
on her cheeks and indulge a feminine
impulse to blubber about It a bit? |
Emphatically, NOT. |
She just ran over and took both
of Mrs, Vanderbeck's hands, and
shook them, and congratulated her—
and smiled, and it was an honest
smile.
Do you know, I think that is a much
finer thing even than being able to
play the game one shot at a time.
Wagner's Record
PITTSBURG, Sept. 18.—Just as
soon as Honus Wagner learned that
the Pittsburg suffragists were do
nating $56 for every home run made
on the Pirate field, he trotted ofit his
hughest war club and banged out a $5
hit—and with the bases loaded, too.
“I didn't expect to make any more
than two or three home rume this
year,” Honus told the suffragists, “but
now that a fellow gets a flve spot for
;avh one I guess I'll exert myself a
"
The ladies told Honus to go right
ahead—they didnt’ care how many he
made—"as long as you make them for
Pittsburg.”
'S
James' Shutout
. .
First Since Aug. 4
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—Bill James’
shut-out game Monday is the first
pitched by a Detroit hurler since Au
gust 4, when Dubue, opposing Wyck
off, at Philadelphia, put one over by a
1-to-0 score. Boland pitched a one- |
hit game since that time, but one run
counted against him, |
Very few sets of ciphers have been |
handed out by Jennings' young men |
this season. Dubuc, though not the
team’'s leading pitcher, is its leader in l
this line. He scored the first vlrtor)"
of this sort when he downed Walter
Johnson this spring, 1 to 0.
Williams' Crown
‘ May Go to Ertle
BT. PAUL, MINN, Sept. 18.—~Kew
ple Ertle's claim to the bantam cham
plonship was strengthened when the
Minnesota Boxing Commission voted
to uphold the decision of the referee
who gave Ertle the fight on a foul in
the fifth round of hig bout Friday,
September 10, with Kid Willlams, of
Baltimore.
N. 0. MAY HAVE SPEEDWAY
NEW ORLEANS, Sept| 18.—A big
automoblle speedway project has been
launched here, and arrangements will
be rushed to have the course complet
ed in time for the next Mard! Gris
season. David Reld, president of the
company that promoted the Chicago
Bpeedway, has taken the lead in the
plans for the New Orleans plant. The
promoters have arranged to purchage
300 acres of Jand in Jefferson Parigh.
BAZE FAMOUS ARENA.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18—
James W. Coffroth's lease on the box-
Ing arena at Bighth and Howard
streets, San Francisco, has expired,
and the structure may shortly be dis
mantled. Lightweights Wolgast and
Richie both defended thelr titles in
the old arena.
CHARLEY SCHMIDT AT HOME
BOSTON, Sept. 17. — Charley
Schmidt, the Braves' crack first bage
man, ia in Boston as & result of a
spike wound received in Pittsburg
last Saturday.
Phillies Wouldn’t Have Had Peep
in for Pennant but for the
Big Hurler,
NEW YORK, Bept. 18.—After
watching the Phils in their last five
games at the Polo Gounds the
writer has come to the conclusion
that the team is strictly a Grover!
Cleveland Alexander club, and if
the team wins the Natlonal League
pennant, it will be one of the weak
est pennant-winning clubs ever de
veloped in the major leagues.
In practically all of the National
League races of the nast the club
‘would not have had a look-in; neither
would it have a peep-in this year
were it not for Alexander plus an
April dash, which has carried the
club all season.
‘ In forty pennant races in the Na
tlonal League no club ever approached
the low water mark the Philllies are
‘sure to set this season. The follow
‘lng table shows the percentages
‘held by all the National League pen
‘nant-winners of the past:
‘VQar. Ciub. Manager, IW]L[Pct
1876—Chicago, An50n.........| 52/14].788
1877—Boston, H. Wright.....| 31/17/.648
1878 —Boston, H. Vißt .. ...} 41/19.707
1879—Providence, G. Wright..| 55/23/.705
1880—Chicago, Anson | 67/17/.708
1881—Chicago, Anson ........| 56/28/.667
1882—Chicago, Anson ........| 55/20! 655
1883-—Boston, Morrill ........| 6335/ 648
1884—Providence, Bancroft ...| 84/28.750
18856—Chicago, Anson ...,....| 87/25/.776
1886-—Chicago, Anson ‘ 90/34/.726
1887—Detrolt, Watkins ..,...| 79/45/ 637
1888-—New York, Mutrie......| 84/47| 641
1889-—New York, Mutrie......| 8343/ 659
1890—Brooklyn, McGunnigle. .| 86 43 667
1891—Boston, Selee ..........| 8751|630
1892-—Boston, Selee .......‘..t102'41'.680
1893—Boston, Selea “eeeaneens] 86/44).622
1894—Baltimore, Hanlon ....| 89/39/695
1895—Baltimore, Hanlon .....| 8748869
1883-—Baltimore, Hanlon f 90 39 608
1807—Boston, Selee ..........| 93/38/ 698
1898-—Boston, Selee ..........|lO2/47..685
1899—Brooklyn, Hanion .....| 88 421,877
| 1900—Brooklyn, Hanlon .....| §2/54/ 603
| 1901—Pittaburg, Clarke ......| 9049 647
1902—Pittsburg, Clarke ......[108(36/.741
1908—Pittsburg, Clarke ......| 91/49).656
1904—New York, McGraw....[lo6/47/.693
1905—New York, McGQraw..... 105 46| 688
1906-—Chlcago, Chance .......!116/36/.763
1907—Chicago, Chance .......|10745).704
1908—Chicago, Chance ...,...| 99.55/.643
1909—Pittaburg, Clarke ...... 11042724
'mor«cmmv, Chance .......|lO4/50|.676
1911--New York, McGraw....| 99/54/.647
| 1912—New York, McGraw....[lo3 48 .682
1913-~New York, McGraw....|10151|.664
1914-—Boston, Stallings ......| 9459 .614
As a striking contrast to this is the
present rating of the Phillies: Games
won; 69; games lost, 53; percentage,
568§,
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among National League champlons,
lost 54 games, one more than the
Phillles have lost this season. In
1908, the year of the famous play-off,
the champion Cubs dropped 65; in
1911, the first year of McGraw's sec
ond pennant machine, the Giants lost
b 4, while last season the Braves set
a new defeat record with 59 reverses.
That is what John McGraw means
when he so frequently remarked that
the 1915 race i{s the easlest race to
win that has ever been fought in
the National League. In practically
every year in the past, save last year,
a 4 team with a percentage of .566 at
this stage of the game would be en
tirely out of the running, instead of
leading the pack,
In many ways the present Phillies
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Governor Johnson has defied the “
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remind me of the Washington team,
which landed second in the American
League in 1912 and 1913, and was
built entirely around Walter Johnson.
Griffith, however, in the writer's
opinion, had a much superior club to
Moran, and only failed to cop because
he was forced to compete with the
Athletics when they were at their
crest, and no one would seriously
consider the present Phillies with the
three-time world's champions.
Griffith also had an asset which {s
totally miseging in the Phillies. He
had one of the fastest teams on the
bases ever put together in modern
baseball. In this department ' the
Phillies are terribly deficient. They
have stolen only 86 bases to date,
which is the poorest record held by
any of the 18 major league clubs. A
few years ago Zeb Milan, of Wash
ington, stole more than that himsel?,
Imagine an old-time National League
champion with 86 stolen bases aftes
five months’ play.
Otto Stifel Wins
SIO,OOO on Horse
ST. LOUIS, Sept, 18.—Word went
down to the turf rialto last night Otto
F. Stifel, famous plunger, has won $lO,.
000 on White Crown, winner of the third
race at Lexington yesterday. Stifel beg
$450 on the horse. The pooling from
Lexington reported White Crown as
paying $60.50 in the $2 mutuel.