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TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1916.-
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*GEORGIAN SPORTS COVERID 4 FEXPERTS:
Vols’ Double Vietory While Pels Are Losing to
Travelers, Increases Lead to Three and a Half
Games—LFrank’s Men Drop.
IRST place in a league race, par
) F ticalarly first place in a league
| race in August, is a mighty
hard thing to attain. Certainly it is
- too sweet a thing to surrender.
'5 And you can gamble that the Vols
"fought every inch of the way for the
two battles they took from the Crack
ers yesterday. The hox 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 carried
them to victory in the pair of battles.
Little Rock’s desperata 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 Y, for John Dobbs is
watching and waiting and praying for
just one more slump on the part of
the Vels. If that arrives he will dash
in to the lead 'and no earthly power
can then head him,
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THERE is an eternal and everlast
ing and otherwise disagreeabhla
jinx camping on the trail of every
hurler who earns the newspaper title
of “best pitcher in the Southern
League.”
If ycu'll look over the list of men so
hailed you'll see that all of them have
some bad end mighty soon after their
coronation.
Early in the season the papers of
New Orleans gave Roy Walker the
title and just a few weeks ago these
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 pitehing for Ridgeway, Pa., which
isn’t in organized baseball at all.
Then along came Rube Marshall,
and he looked like big league timber,
a 8 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 occa
sion.
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CHATTA!\'OOGA papers see in the
fine playing of Tommie ,\Tc.\mlanl
for the l.ookouts the final withdrawal
of Kid Elberfeld from active partici
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 player and can 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 so. 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
;\oebver get the proper athlete for the
Then McMillan was released by the|
Crackers. The Kid has heen sweet on !
Tommie all season. He was quick to
grab him off. |
The retircment of Elberfeld will be
missed by more than one ctass 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 time remains a mystery.
When Jimmy was in the Southern
League he seemed major league ma
terial as surely as some candidate for
rnor of Georgia is being fooled
t now. Then he went up to the
cago White Sox. He did not get
mucn of a trlal 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. 1
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
M}'t of the world series riches. |
.. |
ROWDY ELLIOTT, Johnston's old
Baronjal teammate, is another
athlete who took a long time to reach
the big tent. Way back in 1910 El
liott was the best backstopper in the
Bouthern and got a trial with the
Boston Braves the next vear. That is,
he got a lookover in the training
camp, where the powers that were
decided that he was too small for a
W’fil“ league catcher.
ott 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 fleld did not compensate for his
actions off the diamond. Molesworth
traded him to Bill Schwartz at Nash
ville, and Bill Schwartz grew old and
Bray trying to make Elliott hehave, ‘
Falling, he sent him to the Coast,
Wwhere, to the surprise of .x\'vr,\'lm'l.\'.‘
| DR.J.T.GAULT
SPEC!ALIST (for men
232 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 hoss and made a free
agent the Cubs quickly took him into
the fold, and he is now performing
there with more or less brilliance,
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IF Pug Cavet joins the Phillies 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 yet./ Like
Pug, Demares went to the big show
from the justly celebrated sun-kissed
shores,
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IT’S a fortunate thing for John
Dobbs that he possesses the serv
ices 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 ‘n 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.
$ FOURTH PLACE :
PA A A A AA A
FIRST GAME,
Crackers. e Nohpl 5 8
Msver, o, ~ o % 159 e o
Betiy. B L. 8- 0.0 ¢ 29
Mash, &.-. .L 8 & 1 g 90
Thrashet, rs. . . .9 0 0 % e ¢
Jotices. SL, ..5 09 ) s 0
McDonald, Bb, . .3 0 1 1 @2 o
Manch,.lh. 10008 60 §-0 &
Terking, & . .0 00 % & o
Wi, 9., LS 0809 1 k¥ 0
‘Dav!s.....loloo\o
A . Y
Jotmis . . ..M 14 a 0 o
*Batted for Perkins in seventh.
Vols, O B D PO B &
Le\e,cf.....100000
Bheshar, 207, ~ . § Y I'% ¥y 9
8aker,rt.....321000
Whilase, I, 5.0 y @y g 9
Kauffman,lb. .., . 2 ¢ 1 10 o o
K0re5,5b.....1000l 0
Euam,ss.....zoozao
Sarshall o, 0 .'% O 1 =5 =
“’e115.p.....!()10a0
Totals .. .., 30" 3 €%O 10 o
*Munch out, hit by batted ball.
Score by innings:
RNt r L 100 000 o—l
MNARRVES & .. a e 102 x—3
Summary: Two-base hit—Sheehan.
Left on bases—Nashville 5, Atlanta 3.
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. &b rNips a 9
Ve 0.. . . 4.1 § 0% o 0
SOV, o .. .08 0 3 B I 9
Momß 8...% 0 8 % O 3
ShEsaner; rt. . . .3 1 3 ©T % o
T 3. ... .3 6 8 2 S &
Malbonald, Bd. .. .8 0. % % & &
Munch. Ib, .., .. 8.0 48 & B
Nigderkomn, ¢. . .8 O 0 § 1 o
sTR R T o
Tolsis . . ... .8 I %t W ¥y &
Vols. B e W
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Sheehan, 2b. . . .3 0 0 § 2 o
Baker, *t. . . (% 0 ¢ 8% %
Willane £ . ..} 1 5.5 & 9
Bauiiman-Ib. . ;8 -5 & & 0
Hores, 5. ~ 9 0L & &
N, 8.. u YR 3% 3 %
SADNL 6 o .89 3% % O
Wellh, D, « y i X 09 1 %&%
Totals . . vel B R N
Score by innings:
AUARS . . .0 v vy v 000100 T
Nashville . ... . .o o\ 000 500 g 3
Summary: Two-base hits—Thrasher
2, Kauffman Double play—Yerkce to
Reilly. Left on baaes—!\'ashv!lle 3, At
lanta 8. Struck out—By Wells 1, by
Brennan 1. Bases on balls—Off Wells
1, off Brennan 2. Sacrifice hits—Lee,
Thrasher, Yerkes. Stolen bases—Wil
llams, Ellam, Mayer, Thrasher, Munch.
‘Time. 1:23. Umpires, Kerin and Breit
enstein. |
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Would Give N.L.Same
} Footi American
BROOKLYN, Aug. 15.—President Eb
bets, of Brooklyn, wants it understood
that his proposed amendment to the
| Natlonal League constitution does not
‘call for a complete reneal of the 21-
player limit. He only wants the teams
to carry more than 21 playerg after
August 20, which will put the National
League representatives in the world's
series on the same footing with the
’.\merican League rival.
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THIS IS NOT A SURPRISE
i News that the Columbus, Ohlo, ciub
. was on the market surprised no one. It
was stated last spring that unless the
itp:xm 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
‘hp just what they are doing.
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| Latest Batting Marks
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§ Yerkes .. .. .. 59 208 23 64 .312
{ McDonald .. .. 97 341 48 104 ,305
{ Mayer .. .. .. 500 308 B 1 108 2%
Muneh .. .. .. 99 312 25 84 .260
Perkins.. .. .. 97 200 23 69 .238
{ Niederkorn. - & 1:; '7 13: 31'.9
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{ mrennan . .. 26 81 .9 10 198
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Summary
Results of All Games Played
Yesterday, and the Games
Scheduled for Today.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS-
Southern League.
Clubs. W. L. Pc. Clubs. W. L. Pe.
Nash. 67 44 .604,L. Rock 53 56 .486
New Or. 62 46 574| B'ham 49 54 .476
Chatta. 56 55 .505|(M'phis 53 59 .473
Atlanta 55 55 .500\ Mobile 41 67 .383
American League.
Clubs. W. L. Pe. Clubs. W. L. Pe.
Boston 63 45 .583|Detroit 61 53 .535
Cleve. 62 48 .564|N. York 56 52 .518
Chicago 62 49 .569 | Wash. '52 55 .486
St. L. 6052 .536/Phila. 22 82 .212
National League.
Clubs. W. L. Pe:j - Clubs. W. 1. Pao.
Br'kl'n 63 37 .630 | Chicago 49 54 .476
Boston 58 40 .592 | Pitts. 45 54 455
Phila. 60 42 .588|8St. L. 47 61 .435
N. York 52 40 .5151Cincin. 43 68 .426
South Atlantic Leaaue.
Clubs. W. L Pe. Clubs. W. L. Pe.
C'l'mb’s 27 19 .587 |Jack. 21 28 477
A'g'sta 26 19 .568 |['l'mb's 22 25 .468
CTmb’a 27 19 .587 'Macon 20 26 .435
YESTERDAY'’S RESULTS.
Southern League.
Nashville, 3; Atlanta, 1 (first).
Nashville, 3; Atlanta, 2 (second).
Little Rock, 5; New Orleans, 4.
Chattanooga, 1; Birmingham, 0 (first)
Birmingham, 4; Chattanooga 1 (24).
Mobile, 2; Memphis, 0.
American Lel%uo
New York, 4; Philadelphia, 3.
Washington, 2; Boston, 1.
Cleveland, 3; Detroit, 2.
St. 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, . Jouis—Rain,
South Atlantic League,
Charleston 4, Jacksonville 1.
Augusta 1, Columbus 0.
Columbia 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 (2
games).
Mobile at Memphis (2 games). .
American League,
Washington at Boston.
Philadelphia at New York.
Others not scheduled.
National League.
Pittsburg at St. Louis (2 games).
Chicago 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
NELSON, Aug. 15.--Nelson defeated
Ball Ground here yesterday by a score
of 8 to 0. Morris was in fine form,
striking out 12 men and allowing only 5
hits Hasty, for Ball Ground, pitched
gocd ball, but received bad support
Score by Innings: RH. E.
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SR CPOUNE v iivisinssintinnii ik B
Batteries: Morris and Little; Hasty
and Gibbe, Umpires, Richards and By
ers,
Tris’' Mother Sees
Slugging Son Play
BT, LOUIS, Aug. 15.—-Mrs. A. L.
Speaker, mother of Tris Speaker. the
sensational fiy-chaser of the Indians,
came up from Huhbard City, Texas, to
see the Browns-Indians series. £he was
accompanied Ly her daughter, Mrs. C.
C. Kyle, It was in Bt. Louls about four
years agn that Mre. Speaker for the first
{m. Tris in a baseball uniform.
‘TiJE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
TQe Georgian All-Southern
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 the 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 that
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 dught to be.” ‘
“Right,” said 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. {
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Yook at this list:
Nashville—Sheehan.
New Orleans—Knaupp.
Atlanta—Yerkes.
Chattanooga—Pitler.
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
playvers of the middle station and
neither the Vol keyvstoner nor his
fellow athlete from Mobile are.slouch
ball players,
Sheehan is too prone to make cost
ly miscues in pinches, while Massey
has never had a fair chance with
the tail-end club of the city on the
sun-kissed and storm-swept shores.
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LIKF}WISE we can dispose of Jake
Pitler, of the Lookouts, capable
as he is. Jake has played splendid
ball for the Elberfeld outfit. His
fielding is good, if not brilliant, He
is hitting around .260, which is a
pretty fair mark for an infielder. In
any other company he would be a
star. In any other year in all prob
ability he would be an easy All-
Southern selecticn. But this is not
his year.
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B(,'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 mueh 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, |
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HERF:'S Clyde Wares—no longer
the kid of the old Montgomery
davs, but still the peer of any sec
ond sacker In the circuit in flelding,
a splendid base runner, and a man
in whom the fighting spirit is in
tensely developed. Wares is hitting
-263, which, taken with his many ex
cellent qualities, should be enough to
give him the honors, |
But all the others, with the excep«
tion of Knaupp, are hitting at a bet
ter clip, and there is mighty little
to choose from the flelding.
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NAUPP'S 261 batting average.
K also lets him cut, Co.tum ntu:? 1
ed the season hitting close up to the
.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' fielding, particularly on his
throwing. His arm seems to have
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By Tad
weakened badly in his desire to get
some speed on his throws, 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 .303. Clark is clouting at a
290 clip, but Clark's drives are
harder. He more frequently breaks
into the extra base column. Both
are 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 is 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.
Third base tomorrow.
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Miss Stirling Begins Practice for‘
October, When She Hopes to
Capture National Honors.
HERE is 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 o real hattle 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 coun
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 the
champion, Mrs. Vanderbeck, in the
semifinals in 4 heart-breaking battle
that went to 22 holes.
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NH\\' Miss Stirling is not the kind
of girl and not the kind of golfer
to 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
hasn't been in any competition. It
wouldn't do for her to keep at the
top of her game too long. There is
always the danger of going stale.
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
ures, and so does Stewart Maiden, of
the East Lake Club, her instructor,
that careful practice from now until
the 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.
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Sport Impresario in New York on
Business Will Look After Inter
.
ests of Labor Day Boxing Card.
ANDOLPH ROSE, sport impres-
IQ 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.
Mr. Rose was called to New York
on other business, and when he re
ceived this call he made arrangements
to kill two birds with one stone, and
arrange the filstic card as well as at
tend to his personal affairs.
He has appointments, made by tel«
egraph, with Harry Pollock, Jimmy
Johnson, Danny Morgzan and other
Gotham fistic managers and promo
ters, and he hopes and belleves that
before he returns to Atlanta he will
have some mighty attractive ane
nouncements to make,
“ - .
I).’ 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
gest thing of its kind ever held in the
South
It has been suggested that owing to
the undoubtedly high-class card that
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 falr sex. But.
the uncomfortable halls and their poor
facilities have held down this patron
age,
It is belleved 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.
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