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TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1916
hetan Who Imagines He's the Only Pebble on the Beach Often Lands on the Rocks
~GEORGIAN SPORTS COVERID 4 EXPERTS:
[RAGKERS BIVE ELLAM
NEW GHIP ON FIRST RUNG
Vols’ Double Victory While Pels Are Losing to
Travelers, Increases Lead to Three and a Half
Games—Frank’s Men Drop. :
IRST place in a league race, par-
F ticularly first place in a league
race In August, is a mighty
hard thing to attain. Certainly it is
too sweet a thing to surrender.
And you can gamhble that the Vols
fought every inch of the way for the
two battles they took from the Crack
ers vesterday. The box scores show
that the hitting and flelding were
about even, and you can figure that it
was just that ounce or so of despera
tion that was the Vols that vaxg'ied
them to victory in the pair of battles.
Little Rock’s desperats rally, trim
ming the Pelicans in the ninth round,
gives Ellam’s people a lead of three
and a half games and a bit of breath
ing space. But if the Nashville boss
expects to win the 1916 pennant he
' has got to watch, and watch care
fully, every step of the way from now
until September 9, for John Dobbs is
watching and waiting and praying for
Just one more slump on the part of
the Vols. If that arrives he will dash
in to the lead and no earthly power
can then head him,
* * -
THERE is an eternal and everlast-\
ing and otherwise disazreeable‘
jinx camping on the trail of every |
hurler who earns the newspaper tltle‘
of “best pitcher in the Southern‘
League.” |
If yeu'll look over the list of men &0
hailed you'll see that all of them have
some bad end mi;hty soon after their
coronation. |
Early in the season the papers of .
New Orleans gave Roy Walker the
title and just a few weeks ago theose
same sporting experts were crying for
Walker’s scalp.
About that same time we folks up
here in Atlanta were disputing Wal
ker's prominence and claiming all
sorts of things, for old Doctor La-
Fitte. Now gaze on the old Doc. He
is pitching for Ridgeway, Pa., which
isn’t in organized baseball at all.
Then along came Rube Marshall,
and he looked like hig league timber,
a4s sure as gun's iron. But in recent
weeks Rube hasn't pitched a game
that was anything like creditable.
Tom Rogers sprung into the lime
light. He ran up a string of victories
as long as the justly celebrated
Church street of Nashville, and then |
he has met four successive defeats
right when his club needed him to win
most.
Dickie Kerr looked a bear for Mem
phis until a little more than a week
ago. Since that time he has been
driven from the hill twice and should
have been yanked on another ooca-'
sion.
CHATTANOOGA papers see in the
fine playving of Tommie McMillan
for the I.ookouts the final withdrawal
of Kid Elberfeld from active partiel
pation in the pastime.
It is pointed out that the Kid has
long yearned to manage from the
bench. Though he is still a wonder
ful bali playver and ¢an play with the
best of the league when occasion re
quires, it is nothing but his indom
itable nerve that has enabled him to
do go. For years the scrappy little
Lookout leader’s legs have given him
trouble. In recent months he has un
dergone tortures while on the fleld,
but still he stuck to his guns, looking
for a man to fill that gap in his in
field. |
He tried and tried, but he could
;le:er get the proper athlete for the
ob.
Then McMillan was released by the
Crackers. The Kid has been sweet on
Tommie all season. He was quick to
grab him off.
The retircment of Elberfeld will be
missed by more than one c*ass of peo
ple in the Southern League. The fans
will miss his forceful presence on the
fleld. And will the umpires miss him?
Oh, no, not in the least, that is not at
all, hardly.
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IMMY JOHNSTON has at last come
into his own in the big show and
ow he kept from doing it for so long
a tima remains a mystery.
When Jimmy was in the Southern
TLeague he seemed major league ma
terial as surely as some candidate for
Governor of Georgia is being fooled
flcfiht now. Then he went up to the
cago White Sox. He did not get
mucn of a trial and was sent to the
Coast,
There he starred again, and this
time he was grabbed up by the Cubs
and again he was sent back to the
minors,
This year Brooklyn signed him and
kept him on the bench most of the
season, but he got his chance finally
and made good. He has succeeded
Hap Myers as an outfield regular and
his hundreds of Dixie friends are hop
ing he will have a chance to get his
part of the world series riches.
- - -
Rowmr ELLIOTT, Johnston's old
Baronial teammate, s another
athlete who took a long time to reach
the big tent. Way back in 1910 El
liott was the best backstopper in the
Southern and got a trial with the
Boston Braves the next year. That is,
he got a lookover in the training
“mg. where the powers that were
decided that he was too small for a
major league catcher.
Elliott was sent back to the South
ern and he again caught splendidly
for Birmingham, but Rowdy was all
his name implied and his brilliance
on the field did not compensate for his
fctions off the diamond. Molesworth
traded him to Bill Schwartz at Nash
ville, and Bill Schwartz grew old and
gray trying to make Elliott behave,
Failing, he gent him to the Coast,
Wkere, to the surprise of everybody,
DR.J. T.GAULT
SPECIALIST (for men)
32 Inman Bullding
Atlanta Georgla
Elliott was last year made manager
of Oakland. He wasn't a howling
success as a manager, but evidently
was as a catcher. For when he was
deposed as boss and made a free
agent the Cubs quickly took him into
the fold, and he is now performing
there with more or less brilliance.
* - -
IF Pug Cavet joins the Phillles and
Al Demaree is still on the job,
people in the effete East will have an
idea that Mobile, Ala., has a corner
on homeliness. In Philadelphia they
assert that Demaree is the ugliest liv
ing ball player, but that is because
they haven't seen Cavet vet. Like
Pug, Demaree went to the big show
from the justly celebrated sun-kissed
shores,
* - *
IT'S a/ fortunate thing for John
Dobbs that he possesses the serv
fces of Roy Walker, however temper
amental that hurler may be. Walker
has been able to beat the Vols, the
Pels’ most hated rivals, every time
he has faced them this season. On
five different occasions he has downed
the Ellam entry, which alone should
make him worth his weight in gold in
New Orleans.
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BILL CARRIGAN, manager of the
world champion and league
leading Red Sox, 1s wearing a wrist
watch, but there is no record of the
fact that Charley Frank is drinking
chocolate milks.
s FOURTH PLACE 8
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| FIRST GAME. ‘
Crackers. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Mayer, of, .., .3 1. &% & o
Bellly, ;.. . . oF 09§ g o
Moran, i, . - . .30 T ¥ & @
Thrashet 'sf. . . . 3 -6 3 @ 0
Yerkes, 3. . .. . F & ¢ % 2 o
McDonald, 3% : .3 ¢ '3 1 % ©
Munch, 1B i i g 6- 8 §. 8. P
Perhing, . . . .5 O 0 % 9 9
Wison. p. .. .3 8 'Y 8 9 0
Davnis : .. VW 100 @ o
Jotus ¢. . M 1 ¢ b ol
*Batted for Perkins in seventh. ‘
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Bhothan 4b.". . ¥ 11T ¢ 9%
Baer . - . i F 2 ) % B 9
WHES Y. . . 9 1 Y% %
Kauffman,lb. . ..2 ¢ 1 10 o 0
BUPOR RN s . B o 8& -3 0
S, 9. . .-, .2 0 5 2 2.0
Marahall . -, . 3 0 I'% -1 @
Walllk 3. L i 8.0 0 3 B
Totals .C . ... 90 X E%O .10 &
*Munch out, hit by batted ball.
Score by innings:
ABanta . . .o 0. 0000 0y
Nashville . ... . 0. . 000 10 S
Summary: Two-base hit—Sheehan.
Left on bases—Nashville 6, Atlanta 8.
Struck out—By Wells 2, by Wilson 2.
Bases on balls—Off Wells 1, off Wilson
4. Sacrifice hits—Lee, Kores 2, Reilly.
Time, 1:20. Umpires, Breitenstein and
Kerin.
SECOND GAME.
Crackers. ab. r. h.po. a. &
YRy, 08, . L€ ) O YTE OB
Beßly, 8 . & « .4 5 'L B ¥ B
[ . . .. % ¢ % 9 9
IhaEheraet. . ..2 1 3 1 %
TOIRON 38. . . .. 95 0 0 ¥ & N
MeDonnld, 3. .. .3 0 3 % & &
Munch. 18. . . ..8 0 § & O B
Niederkorn, ¢. . .-8 0 0 1 1 0
BYennan; p. .. .-.8 6 1 9 @ @
TRES ... .9 32 1B T
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o of. . .. .cX 9 0 3 BN
Bhoehan, b, . , . 3:- ¢ 0 § -3 »
FRREr, . . . it W e
W 5 . . .8 2 8 B 9 @
Heultman, Id. .. . 8 /1 Ll L
BOres> 3. .« 3 0 0§ 9@
N . . . o Y 2B 88
Mapenmll, - ~ .3 0 T-B . % @
W P s - i B 9 I'B 0
Totals . . .5 3R 9 3
Score by innings:
AUBHER . « ¢ ¢ v v o o DD Tl
NERYHIS .¢o« '+ o.+ + . OD'TD -3
Summary: Two-base nits—Thrasher
¢, Kauffman Double play—Yerkce to
Reilly. Left on bases—g‘uhvllle 3, At
lanta 8. Struck out—By Wells 1, by
Brennan 1. Bases on balls—Off Wells
1, off Brennan 2. Sacrifice hits—Lee,
'l‘hrasher, Yerkes. Stolen bases—Wil
liams, Ellam, Mayer, Thrasher, Munch.
Time, 1:23. Umplres, Kerin and Breit
enstein.
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Would Give N.L.Same
Footing as Ameri
BROOKLYN, Aug. 15.—President Eb
bets, of Brookiyn, wants it understood
that his proposed amendment to the
National League constitution does not
call for a complete reneal of the 21-
player limit. He only wants the teams
to carry more than 21 players after
August 20, which will put the National
lL.eague representatives in the world's
series on the same footing with the
American League rival.
| News that the Columbus, Ohlo, ciub
| was on the market surprised no one. It
was stated last spring that unless the
]ream was a winner and the fans turned
out to give the owners a chance to re
cuperate some of their losses they would
get out of baseball, and that seems to
be just what they are doing.
Latest Batting Marks
Of Cracker Players
Players— Q. AB. R. H, Pet,
SVI . «s .« 11 B 2 8 .348
Thrasher .. .. 95 386 63 120 .337
WHaR .. s « 0 W = 5 23
Moran .. .. ..100 330 586 104 .318
Yerkes .. .. .. 50 206 23 04 .312
McDonald .. .. 97 341 48 104 .305
Mayer .. .. ..109 393 81 108 .278
Munch .. .. .. 9 312 28 04 200
Perkins.. .. .. 97 200 23 690 .238
Niederkorn. .. 47 105 7 23 .219
Perry .. .. .. 40 83 9% 1 218
Brennan .. .. 20 81 9% 10 .99
RNollly. .. ....8 %8 §. 85
BN soo 550 W B 3 .082
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Baseball
Summary
Results of All Games Played
Yesterday, and the Games
Scheduled for Today.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS-
Southern League.
Clubs. W. L. Pe. | Clubs. W. L. Pe.
Nash, 67 44 .604 |L. Rock 53 56 .486
New Or. 62 46 .574| B’hain 49 54 .476
Chatta. 58 55 .505| M'phis 53 59 .473
Atlanta 556 55 .500 Mobile 41 67 .383
American League.
Clubs. W.L.Pc.| Clubs. W. L. Pe.
Boston 63 45 .583|Detroit 61 53 .535
Cleve. 62 48 .564|N. York 56 52 .518
Chicago 62 45 .569 |Wash. 52 556 .486
3t. L. 6052 .536!Phila. 22 82 .212
Naticnal League,
Clubs. W. L. Pc.; Clubs. W. L. Pe.
Br'kl'n 63 37 .630 | Chicago 49 54 .476
Boston 58 40 .592 | Pitts. 45 54 .455
Phila. 60 42 .588|St. L. 47 81 435
N. York 52 40 .5151Cincin. 43 68 .426
South Atlantic Leacue,
Clubs. W.L. Pe. Clubs. W.L Pe.
C''mb’'s 27 19 .587 |Jack. 21 23 AN
A'g'sta 25 19 .568 |"'l'mb’s 22 25 .468
Clmba 27 19 .587 IMacon 20 26 .435
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS.
Southern League.
Nashville, 3; Atlanta, 1 (first).
Nashville, 3; Atlanta, 2 (second).
Little Rock, §; New Orleans, 4.
Chattanooga, 1; Birmingham, 0 (first)
Birmingham, 4; Chattanooga 1 (2d).
Mobile, 2; Memphis, 0.
American Lel%ue
New York, 4; Phflflelp ia, 3.
Washington, 2; Boston, 1.
Cleveland, 3; Detroit, 2.
Bt. Louis-Chicago-—Off day.
National League
Philadelphia, 8; New York, 0 (Ist).
Philadelphia, 7; New York, 4 (2nd).
Brooklyn, 5; Boston, 2.
Cincinnati, 6; Chicago, 3.
Pittsburg-St. Louis—Rain.
South Atlantic League,
Charleston 4, Jacksonville 1.
Augusta 1, Columbus 0.
~ Columbla 4, Macon 2
| American Association,
‘ No games played.
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.
FULTON BAG WINS,
Atlanta at Nashville.
New Orleans at Little Rock (2 games)
Birmingham at Chattanooga (V]
games), .
Mobile at Memphis (2 games),
American League,
Washington at Boston.
Philadelphia at New York.
Others not scheduled.
National League.
Pittsburg at St. Louls (2 games).
(‘hlrago at Cincinnati,
New York at Philadelphia,
Boston at Brooklyn.
South Atlantic League,
Charleston at Jacksonville.
Columbia at Macon,
Augusta at Columbus.
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Nelson Is Winner \
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Over Ball Ground
er Ball Ground
NELSON, Aug. 15.—Nelson defeated
Ball Ground here yesterday by a score
of 8 to 0. Morris was in fine form,
ltrlkin{{nut 12 men and allowing only 5
hits asty, for Ball Ground, pitched
good ball, but received bad support.
Score by innings: RH E,
TS ooicisocoticis isisonneiscs B 1R B
AR PO .00 civisiviansiiinid B B
I Batteries: Morris and Little; Hasty
and Gibbs, Umpires, Richards and By
ers,
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Tris' Mother Sees
Slugging Son Play
BT, LOUVIS, Aug. 15.—Mrs. A. L.
Bpeaker, mother of Tris Speaker. the
sensational fiy-chacer of the Indlans,
came up from Hubbard City, Texas, to
Aee the Browns-Indlans series She was
Ancomfanied by her daughter, Mrs. C.
C. K It was in Et. Louls ahout four
that Mrs. Bpeaker for the first
T3IE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
Tlle Ggorgian A}l-Soqthgrn
No. 2; Danny Clark, 2nd Base
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
ALKING with Charlie Starr the
other day, the Little Rock mo
gul paused to pay tribute to
the great ball Clyde Wares is con
tributing to thé welfare of his rush
ing forces.
Just at that moment, Steve Yerkes,
of the Crackers, made a dazzling stop
that cut off a run, and when he came
in to bat cracked out a double thatl
had more or less to do with the
downfall of the Travelers that day.|
“Speaking of second basemen,” I
remarked, “there's my idea of what
a real ball player ought to be”
“Right,” sald Starr. “But speaking
of second basemen, how about Danny
Clark?” he asked.
“And speaking of second basemen?”
I came right back, “how about Cot
ton Knaupp?”
Starr laughed. “I don’t believe
there are any bad ones since I quit
playing the keystone,” he remarked.
And there was a world of wisdom
in his utterance, despite the alto
gether modest but totally undeserved
reflection on his own ability.
There is no such thing as a poor
second baseman in the Southern
League this season.
- > >
Look at this list:
Nashville—Sheehan.
New Orleans—Knaupp.
Atlanta—Yerkes.
Chattanooga—Pitlor.
Little Rock—Wares.
Memphis—Cruthers.
Birmingham—Clark.
Mobile—Massey.
Try to find one man on the list
that wouldn't grace any Class “A”
ball club. It can't be done. And
then think of selecting the best man
of the eight and pity the poor
‘sporting writer who has to make a
‘selection.
THERE are just two that can be
disposed of right off the bat.
Strangely enough they are with the
first and last clubs—the Alpha and
Omega of the league. Neither Shee
han nor Massey measures up in bril
liance or consistency to the six other
plavers of the middle station and
neither the Vol Kkeystoner nor his
fellow athlete from Mobile are slouch
ball players.
Sheehan ig too prone to make cost
ly miscues in pinches, while Massey
has never had a fair chance with
the tail-end club of the ecity on the
sun-kissed and. stort:\-lwept shores.
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LIKEWISE we can dispose of Jake
Pitler, of the Lookouts, eapable
as he ig. Jake has played splendid
ball for the Elberfeld outfit. His
flelding is good, if not brilllant. He
{s hitting around .260, which is a
pretty fair mark for an infielder. In
any other company he would be a
star. In arfy other year in all prob
ability he would be an easy All-
Southern selection. But this is not
his year.
- . -
BI?T how about the other five?
Well, how about the other five?
As good results probably could be
obtained by placing the names of
Wares and Clark and Cruthers and
Knaupp and Yerkes in a hat and
drawing blindfolded and the selec
tion would be much easier.
Still we are demons for work, as
we once remarked to a sheriff who
wanted 463 pints of seized licker de
stroyed, and far be it from us to shun
responsibilities,
~ So here goes.
‘ 5 - . -
IHERE'R Clyde Wares—no Yonpnrl
| Jthe kid of the old Montgomery
days, but still the peer of any sec
‘ond sacker In the circuit in fielding,
a splendid base runner, and a man
in whom the fighting spirit is in
tensely developed. Wares s hitting
263, which, taken with his many ex
cellent qualities, should be enough to
give him the honors,
But all the others, with the excen
tion of Knaupp. are hitting at a bet
ter clip. and there is mighty little
to choose from the flelding,
. . -
NAUPP'S 251 battin average
K also lets him cut, C:mm start-
.300 mark and he stayed there until
recent weeks, and then his hitting
fell to nothing.
He is still a splendid second base
man. His flelding will rank with
‘anybody’s. His pepper is proverbial,
‘but Cotton is aging a trifle, and that,
coupled with his recent helplessness
at bat, kills his chances.
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PRESS CRUTHERS, of Memphis,
was easily the best keystoner in
the league last season, but the
Cruthers of this season doesn't seem
the Cruthers of last—not on his At
lanta form, anyhow.
The Chick second sacker is hitting
.270, which is a very fine clip, though
below his speed, but his layoff in the
early part of this season has told on
his flelding, particularly on his
throwing. His arm seems to have
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weakened badly In his desire to get'
some speed on his thro,ws. and has
had an undoubtedly bad effect on his
accuracy. Which is enough to take
Mr. Cruthers beyond the pale of
consideration,
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THEN we have left Steve Yerkes
and Danny Clark, and the task
of selecting that was painful becomes
absolutely harrowing. |
- Both are of the finest type of ball
players, hard workers, possessors of
good habits, and owners of brains
that are something more than some
thing to fill up a skull. Yerkes is
hitting .803. Clark is clouting at a
.290 clip, but Clark's drives ' are
harder. He more frequently, breaks
into the extra base column. Both
lare smart ball players. Yerkes has
‘the edge on Clark, of course, in ex
perience, but this is more than over
balanced by Danny's youth.
- _Clark i 8 much faster on the bases
than Yerkes, and this consideration
gives him the place, though it is
given with misgivings that a bone
has been pulled by your humble ser
vant.
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Miss Stirling Begins Practice for
October, When She Hopes to
Capture National Honors.
HERE 1s going to be a real bat-
I tle in the Woman's National
Golf Tournament this year, and
You can lay to that. That is, there is
going to be a real battle if a worthy
foeman, or a foewoman, or whatever
you call 'em, can be found for Miss
Alexa Stirling, of Atlanta, the holder
of the Southern title.
For Miss Stirling is going to jour
ney North in October, with the one
idea in view of bringing back the cup
token that she is the best woman golf
player in these United States of
America, Considering the length,
breadth and thickness of this c¢oun
try, there seems little doubt that she
will encounter real opposition, which
is exactly what she wants.
Miss Stirling’s wonderful fight last
year at Onwentsia Is well remembered
by hundreds of Atlanta golf bugs.
They recall how she swept through
her early matches, only to lose to thu‘
champion, Mrs. Vanderbeck, in the
semifinals in a heart-breaking battle
that went to 22 holes.
. » *
]\ll»\\~ Miss Stirling is not the kind
of girl and not the kind of golfer
;n. be discouraged by that sort of a
defeat. Since that match she has had
one vaulting ambition, and that is to
win this year's title.
And now she is preparing herself
for this test,
She hasn’t been doing a whole lot
of -golf playing this summer—just
enough to keep her game from get
ting rusty. She played in the South
ern tourney early in the season, and
| won handily. But since then she
‘l),usn‘x been in any competition, It
| wouldn't do for her to keep at the
lmp of her game too long. There is
always the danger of going stale.
t Miss Stirling has been seen at the
| ball park and at musical affairs far
{ more than she has been seen on the
links, and still golf hasn't been off
of her mind.
This week she began active prepa
ration for the competition. She fig
‘hl‘w.\’. and so does Stewart Maiden, of
lth» East Lake Club, her instructor,
that careful practice from now until
I:'Iw tournament, in October, will have
her game at its finest point then.
If it is, as was remarked before,
there is going to be some real golf in
that tournament.
ATLANTA, GA.
' .
Sport Impresario in New York on
Business Will Look After Inter
ests of Labor Day Boxing Card.
ANDOLPH ROSE, sport impres-
Iz sario, who is In charge of the
boxing feature of the Labor
Day celebration in Atlanta, leaves to
day for New York, and while there hg
will close terms with some of the star
boxers, who will appear on the all~
star card at the Auditorium as a fit
tirg conclusion to the day’s festivie
ties. S
Mr. Rose was called to New York
on other business, and when he re
celved this call he made arrangements
to kill two birds with one stone, and
arrange the fistie card as well as at
tend to his personal affairs. »
He has appointments, made by tele
egraph, with Harry Pollock, Jimmy
Johnson, Danny Morgan and other
Gotham fistic managers and promos
ters, and he hopes and believes that
before he returns to Atlanta he will
have some mighty attractive ane
nouncements to make.
- - .
IN the meantime the committee on
entertainment of the Labor Day
organization is losing no time in its
work to make the night affair the big
zest thing of its kfnd ever held in the
South
It has been suggested that owing to
the undoubtedly high-class card thag
will be presented and the splendid
seating arrangement of the Audito
rium that ladies be encouraged to at
tend.
. There has never been a ban on
‘ feminine attendance at boxing
matches in Atlanta and there have
been some of the bouts attended by
representatives of the fair sex. But
the uncomfortable halls and their poor
facilities have held down this patron
age. )
It is belisved that some arrange
ment can be made whereby ladies and.
their escorts can see the entertain
ment without mixing in the ringside
throng Labor Day night.
One of these suggestions is that the
horseshoe of boxes, occupied by the
guarantors during the opera season,
be reserved for such patrons. The
scheme seems one that should prove
popular,
Many other features are being ar
ranged for the evening which will be
announced in due time. 2
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