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SUNDAY, JULY 12. Castleberry & Wilcox 2 STORES Broad St. Summerville » We carry a full and complete stock of the best in the grocery line. Our perfect delivery system enables us to serve you as thoroughly and satis factorily in any part of the city, as though you were “just around the corner. ” For the benefit of those interested in the Herald’s M. & M. Gontest we have in stock every article upon which votes are allowed. By pur chasing these from eith er of our stores Double Votes Can be Had viz.: Upon the products themselves and on our own sales slips—the lat ter being good for 10 votes for each cent rep represented by the slips. The United States Going to Have the Hardest Kind of a Struggle to Hold the Davis Cup This Year New Yark.—Close 'students of ten nis here admit that the United States is going- to have the hardest kind of a struggle to hold the Davis cup this year. The Yankee chances are only fair, hast year Maurice McLaughlin played remarkable tennis and gave promise of better. R. Norris Williams 2d, did wonderfully well in 1913, but everybody then thought his game this year would be equal to or be above MeLoughlln’s. It was a foregone conclusion that Harold H. Hackett’s playing star was on the wane, and that his double matches, in which he and MoLough -lin defeated the British champions, Roper Barrett and Dixon, probably would be his last appearance in in ternational tennis. No Immediate Fear. But with the. exit of Hackett there was no immediate fears as to the pos sibilities of building up a first class doubles team, for evPry one realized that there were at least a dozen play ers in American who could be devel oped into worthy partner? for Mc- Laughlin. That no player who could he thought of could play the style of game which Hackett played so well did not seem a hindrance at the time, for it was realized that any of the possibilities would make up by indi vidual strength and ability what he might lack in playing for team work. So, with the certainty of McLough lin and Williams improving a great deal, and with a dozen other young players and veterans showing form that would mark them as Davis Out timber, things did not look so bad, hut many close students of the game had a feeling within them that some thing wpuld go awry. Then, too, at that time, there was no definite Woman Drives Motorboat Through Waters of St. Lawrence at Fastest Clip Yet Undergone By Any of Her Sex Alexander Bay, N. Y.—Mrs. Alfred Graham Miles, daughter of George C. Boldt, the hotel man, has just aston ished landsmen and St. Lawrence river men alike by driving the 2'2-foot P. D. Q. IV through the water at 47 miles an hour. This is the fastest any wom an ever drove a high-powered motor boat. Many men would not be able to exhibit the nerve, strength and en durance necessary for her feat. After a record-breaking perform ance she did not seem to think her feat was such a noteworthy one. She was not the least bit shaken by her speedy trip through the waters, which were none too smooth. She shook the water off her oil-skins, removed the mask-like arrangement which pro tected her face and. said she thought she could do better on another trial. Mrs. Miles may have a chance to race, in Lake George regattas. If she does so those who saw her drive P. D. Q. IV are confident she will make the tiest of the men drivers look to their laurels. That Mrs. Miles can drive a boat in competition was shown when she raced with her husband in trying out P. D. Q. IV and P. D. Q. V. Great Skill. * Mrs. Miles held her own in the race and showed great skill in hand ling her craft. The boat which was driven by her husband Is a twenty six footer of greater, horsepower arid has traveled as fast as fifty-two miles an hour In trials. Mrs. Miles has al ways been a great lover of sports. She | is a splendid tennis and golf player | and is active in many other lines of j athletics. THOSE 1 111 OOIMLHpiEHS Has Been Tried Out by the Southern League With Great Success—Why Not Else where ? New York. —Why not limit the dou ble header games to seven Innings each? It’s a scheme that has been tried out in the Southern leagues with great success. Two seven inning games in one af ternoon would give the average fan Just about as much baseball as he could comfortably absorb. It wouldn’t force the hall player to the extreme limit of hvi endurance, end, best of all, It would enable the fan to get home In time for a warm dinner. Cutting the double header game to seven Innings would do no one harm. It would do plenty of good. Cutting off four innings from an afternoon’s baseball session would mean lessen ing the. playing period about one hour, and, therefore, the pastime would end before darkness settled over the land. The season of double headers Is now upon us Kvery fan Is keen about tak ln In p big bargain hill, but along about The fourth or fifth Inning fit the second game the exhibition becomes monotonous. Of course. the greatest majority of the fans stick to Ihe bit tor finish, but they stick not ho much because their baseball appetite isn't satisfied but because tney want to sen Just how the Karrie will finish. Most double headers begin about two p. nt„ allowing something over two hours for each game and a 15 minutes intermission botwen eombata. It means that play doesn't end until S:.'iO. That means that the fan dnes'nt get home until from 7:15 to K p. m., owing to the delay In getting out of the crowded park and the usual delay caused by the slow moving fleet of special siren ears. And every house wife is fully agreed that 7:15 to K p. m. is "too darned late for any man to expect his wife to keei, dinner sim mering.'’ If the games vuTfi cut two Innings each, the playing period would he les sened about an houif. which would mean that the final Innings of the second game would not have to be played by torchlight and that father would get home on time to dine with the rest of the family. The seven inning double header Idea probably will prove to tie a popular one with the fans and It Is likely that If the agitation assumes sufficient volee that the ruling powers In base ball he«d It and amend their laws so that seven Inning double headers will ce the rule starting with thu 1815 i season. !HE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA.? knowledge that four of the world’s foremost players would band together on one team in an effort to carry off the cup. Four Players. The four players, Anthony F. Wild ing. Norman K. Brookes, Alfred W. Dunlop and Stanley N. Doust, have joined forces as an Austrnlsian team, however, and give promise of being the men who will face the Americans in the challenge round at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, L. 1„ on August 13, 14, and 15. And, too, although Mcl.oughlin is now playing in his usual meteoric style it is doubt ful if he has Improved ajny, for his business has kept him awgy from the courts a great deal since last year, and he has not had as much practice as he should have had. Moreover, Williams has shown signs of slumping and Instead of his game advancing to a marked degree. • it is said by those who ha»e seen his play this season to nave retrograded con siderably, Both Wilding and Brookes have beaten MeHoughHn. and as these men have been playing all season in lOngland, while Mcl.oughlin has been without practice, the young Califor nian should have a hard time beating either of them in the singles. The form shown by Williams ha? made It necessary for the Davis Cup commit tee to go out in the highways and by ways in search of someone who will lie able to make a creditable showing should Williams fail to Come up to the required standard. Alt of the doubles possibilities that looked so. feasible last year have melt ed off into thin vapor, and now it looks as if Mcl.oughlin and Thomas C. Bundy, the holders of the national title, will be the only pair that can can stand against the great Brookes- Dunlop combination. She and her husband supervised the building of the P. D. Q. IV and the P. D. Q. V. The boats were built for the purpose of winning hack the gold challenge cup which was captured by Captain Casimir Mankowskl last year. P. D. y. 11l lost the trophy to the Count’s Ankle Deep. The races for the cup will h« held on Lake George late this month. The two P. D. Q. s are being turned up to compete for it. Much Faster, The trophy was raced for in the Thousand Island waters for ten years, and held there until Ankle Deep led the way to the race with P. D. y. 11l The new boats are said to he much faster than last year’s craft, and they have shown enough speed in their trials to warrant the belief among friends of Mr. and Mrs. Miles that the cup will be returned to the Thous and Island Yacht Club. The boats were built at Mr. Boldt’s Thousand Islands estate, and Mr. and Mrs. Miles watched carefully over even the smallest details of their construc tion. They seem well satisfied with the two boats, and while they are not predicting that either Will lift the con, their friends are predicting this result for them. Motor boat racing at Lake George will he a feature this season. Many owners of last boats have I heir craft a< anchor now on the up state lake. The days from now untij the gold challenge cup contests will he busy ones for the motor boat owners. Home fast time, it is expected, will he made In the trials during the turning-up work. FETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE TOWNS AND MUNICIPAL COURTS. Augusta, Ga„ .Inly 10, 1914. To the Editor of The Heritid. Sir: I notice in the columns of yotir edition under date of the 7th Inst., that the County Commissioners at their lust meeting unanimously adopt ed resolution asking Richmond county representatives not to take any steps to abolish the so-called justice of peace courts and place In lieu therd lor a municipal court, on the grounds that a justice oT the peace, appeared before them and advised that the' municipal courts now being tried by our sister cities had proven to be un satisfactory. There is not the least bit of doubt but what the municipal courts are unsatisfactory to such as Mr. Nurnberger as it puts a crimp in the little games that are being played by t;ie little .1. P.’s nowadays. If our commissioners had had dealings with the .putieo courts as a great many of the people have, the, would have tinanlomuely voted to abolish such courts. Would you, Mr. Commissioner, agree to the Judge of the superior court taking a suit against you for a vast amount, on percentage basts, ending in nis own tour. and acting as judge over his own case? No. You would not stsnil lor It. Neither does the law allow It. Hut you state plain ly lu your resolution recently adopted that w<j working people whose ac counts, etc. are small anti always fall in the .1. IV* courts, must stand to be sued by them In tIMi own courts, they taking fair Hflrl IMPARTIAL trial as requir- d by law. Your suTls, etc., ate generally too large to he handled by these courts while ours are small and wa have to suffer at their hands. You claim that the municipal courts are untried, (f you would Investigate the reports coming from cities now having such courts, you would form a different opinion. The Justice courts have been tried fot%many tears and have proven VERY IJNSATISEAC TORY. and I am sure the majority of the people would be more than glad to give anything a trial In preference to the present courts. It Is said, and In most cases proves Itself, that when a lellow makes a failure of everything else he comes to town, gets hlrn a Law Dlctionery and a Georgia Reporter and bacorn s a justice of peace. He not being fa miliar with the laws renders guess work decisions and in many cases causes high cost of a pealing. Much an evil should not be allowed to exist Other cities art-'abolishing tl cm with satisfactory results. "WHY NOT PROGRESSIVE AUGPRTA?” Yours for municipal court, ROSE COPELAND. HIB Reynolds St,, Augusta, Gtt. THE ADVENTURES —MB— ■■HillHl —III 111 The store of the most brilliant and thrill ing motion picture drama that has ever been staged By Harold Mac Grath The Adventures of Kathlyn is the most fascinating story of love and adventure that you have ever read. It is the latest and greatest work of that famous author, Harold MacGrath. It is so thrilling a story that as soon as the manuscript was finished the Selig Polyscope Co. secured the Motion Picture dramatic rights and proceeded immediately to spend a fortune in properly staging the play and producing the motion picture films. This groat drama mn»iml for its production 27 full length reels and wherever it has been produced it has Packed the Motion Picture Theatres In those extraordinary plays you witness a living drama of Love and Danger and Intrigue that enthrall you from the start. You see the hair breadth oseapes of the most daring motion pic ture aetress in the world, the beautiful Kathlyn Williams, leading lady for the Selig Polyscope Co. You see her lured bv a false mes sage from her father’s peaceful home in California. You see her be fore the Oouneil of Three in the Royal Pa la re of A Italia,’ crowned the unwilling Queen of a wild race of people in the midst of the jungles of India. . / & % You see her hound by fanatical natives on the top of a giant funeral pyre and watch the flames creeping ever nearer her helpless form. You see her tied with thongs in a tiger trap as human bait for the blood thristv beasts of the jungle. You see her swimming for her life to escape a maddened water-buffalo in the black writers of a Bengal river. Time after time, in scene after scene, this actress takes her life in her hands and walks grimly up to the very jaws of death in order to portray with lifelike realism the actual ad ventures of MacGrath’s heroine. And the story of Kathlyn is just as thrilling as the pictures are. ' * The Adventures of Kathlyn is The Herald's New Serial. « Watch for Opening Chapters of This Thrillling Moving Story In Tuesday’s Herald. NINE
