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LOST HI “FLOS"
St. Louis Club Lost Forty Five
Thousand Dollars---Largest
Lost in League---Gilmore
Says Will Force Organized
Ball to Terms.
| fit. Louis.—“ The Federal club* of
Brooklyn, I’lttsburg, Kansas City and
iPt. Louts lost money In the season
now ending." This Is the statement
attrtbuted by newspaper men here
last night to .James A. Gilmore, pres
ident of the Federal League.
| Gilmore came here yesterday to at
tend a meeting of the stockholders of
the local club and departed early fast
night, lie Is (looted further:
“The Kt. Isolds club lost $45,000.
This was the biggest loss In the
league. Chicago, Buffalo, Baltimore
and Indianapolis will show a balance
tm the right side of the ledger."
| Mr. Gilmore denied rumors that the
chief stockholders of the local club
contemplated selling their stock or
that the St. I.ouls franchise would be
transferred.
v Aa to organized baseball," Mr. Gil
more said, "we are not begging Its
recognition. We will force that."
FEDERAL LEAGUE
■ CLUB STANDING.
■ Won. I ,ost. Pet.
City 87 84 .444
Hst. Louis 82 89 .411
■ Divide Double-Header.
H.\ t Pittsburg
■ (FIRST GAME!
HF Score: R. H E
■ 000 000 000 000 000 I—l 15 4
■ 000 000 000 000 000 0- 0 5 2
HE Ford nnd Rlatr: Kneizer nnd Kerry
H (SECOND QAM El.
HI Score: R H. E.
Hftattalo 000 000- 0 1
HI (Called end sixth Inning, darkness)
HI Anderson nnd Allen; Lerlalr nml
H Tip-Tope 4; Terraplne 5.
HA I Baltimore—
Hr Score: R. 11. E
oio on 001—4 15 0
■Baltimore .. .. 010 000 I**—s 11 4
Hi Bluejacket and Wat non; Smith and
Today on Gridiron
Western Gamaa.
Chicago, -flaraci bringing four “big
Ulna" eleven* Into play and tbo dash
between the University of Michigan
and Vanderbilt at Ann Harbor bold
the Interest In weatarn football today.
In the western conference struggled
Chicago «u scheduled to meet North*
gaatrrn at Chicago and the I’nlverstty
of Indiana «u to face llllnoia at
I’rbana
Kxpcrt* predicted that Mtnneaota
would get a bard game from A me*
and that Wlacvnaln would overwhelm
Ingly whip Marquette.
On Eaatarn Collage Gridiron.
New York. —Game* between team*
of more equal strength marked tod*'
Ute advance of the football eeaaon on
oaatern college gridiron* and the re
aulte arc expected to allow a marked
change In the playing form of the
team* laht uaually enter Into cham
pionship reckoning
Tale and Harvard will face worthy
foe*, Yale playing Lehigh, the eleven
that laet Saturday defeated Carlisle,
»nd Harvard meeting the strong
Washington and Jefferson team It
seems assured that Harvard will be
called upon to play advanced foot
ball if she gains victory.
Princeton will play Syracuse and I*
expected to register another triumph
•The Tigers are continuing the open
game.
Cornel! has a difficult task before
It today when It meet* Carlisle
Pennsylvania meets LaFayette and
reports from both training camps In
dicate a close result.
The Artny-Rutger*. the fturknell
-swnthmore and Amherst-Brow n
games are nlao expected u» result In
close scores.
THE NEW TRAINER
CITY SERIES GAMES
Cubs 2; White Sox 1.
Chicago. The Chicago Nationals
went Into the lead for the city cham
pionship yesterday when they defeat
ed their American League opponents,
2 to 1. The series now stands 2 to 1
in favor of the Nationals.
Score: R. H. K.
Nationals 000 200 000—8 4 1
Americans 001 000 000—1 5 8
Humphries nnd Brcsnahan; Benz,
Wolfgang nnd Schalk.
Giants 1; Yanks 2.
New York. -Jeff Tesreau and Jack
Warhop engaged In a pitchers' duel
here yesterday tn the second game of
the series for the Manhattan chan)-
plonthlp. The local American League
club defeating the National League
team, 2 to L Each club now stands
1 end 1.
Scire: R. H. R.
Nationals 010 000 000 -1 6 1
Americans 000 000 002—2 8 1
Tesreau and Meyers; Warhop and
Sweeney
MOUSES,
COTTON CORD
Washington.—Relieving that cotton
cord manufacturers failed to take full
advantage of the recent advertlse
'nient by the post office department
for bids on some 8200,000 worth of
l cord for use in postoffioes, the post -
master-general has had the proposal
I re-advertised
The department now usea hemp
'twine of which about two million
!)>ounda are consumed annually. It Is
'estimated that cotton makes up Into
! twice the amount of cord per pound
| that la obtained from Jute and it was
thought the Southern staple could he
substituted without material Increase
In the cost, at the same time offering
a new market for cotton manufac
turer#.
First bid* were not satisfactory,
however, and manufacturer* have
been given another opportunity to
auote prlcea.
COBB.BAUBEHT
CHAMPION 818
LEAGUE HITTERS
Georgia Peach Led American
League For Eighth Successive
Year, Average .368-.-Jake’s
Percentage, .320
Chicago. For the eighth year In
succession Ty Cobb haa won the hat
ting championship of the American
League. Figure* published here to
day final though unofficial—give
Cobb a percentage for the aeaaon of
888 In the National League Jake
Daubert. of Brooklyn, retalna title aa
champion with .829, though aevaral
Latter* tn a dozen games or so have
higher percentngea.
Complete record* for Cobb and Dau
t<ert for the aeason follow:
O Ah R H 2b 3b Hr Sh Sb
Cobb .. 97 845 89 127 *3 11 2 634
Daubert 126 474 58 166 16 7 6 83 24
American First Five .300 Hitters.
The first five of the fifteen "three
hundred-hatter*’’ of the American
League are Cobb, Detroit, .368; Pick.
M'ashington, .343: Onlllna, Philadel
phia. 339: Jackson. Cleveland, :!89;
Speaker, lloston. .338.
In team hitting Philadelphia with
270 load* and lVtrolt with .256 Is
j second. In the field the Athletics
again are In front with .965 ami New
| York I* next with 968.
Leading pitcher* of the American
League are Render, Philadelphia. wiQj
17 nnd 8. Leonard. Boston. 19 and 5;
Plank. Philadelphia. 15 and 7; Malar!.
New York bend* the hnse stealers,
with 78 and Raker. Philadelphia, leads
In home rune with nine
National's First Five.
The first five of the 16 players la
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
the National League hatting .300 or
better, are Roche, .667 ((11 gamesi;
Wlltse. New York, .867 (10 games);
I‘iea, New York, .500 (16 games);
Erwin, Brooklyn, .348 t2O games);
Steele, Rrooklyn, .333 (22 games).
Brooklyn with .269 and New York
with .263 lead In club batting, while
Boston, Pittsburg and St. Louis are
tied for the lead In the field!)*;, with
.964 each.
19 Home Runs.
By a margin of one, Cravath's 19
home runs give him the lead over
Saler, Chicago. In stolen bases Burns
of New York is ahead with 58.
The three leading pitchers are
James, Boston, with 27 and 6; Ru
dolph, Boston, 32 and 8; and Doak, St.
Louia, 18 and 7.
The first five of the fifteen Federal
League men hatting .800 are Kattff.
Indianapolis, 861; Yerkee Pittsburg,
858; Evan*. Brooklyn, 858; Chase,
Buffalo, .357; Easterly, Kansas City,
.330.
leading pitchers are Hendrix, Chi
cago, 29 and 10; Ford, Buffalo. 20 and
7; Quinn. Baltimore, 26 and 14.
TOR INCREASING
COTTON EXPORTS
Washington—Anting Secretary I .an
alog and Sir Cecil Sprlng-Rtce. the
British ambassador, discussed today
the |>ossihlhty of Increasing ship
ments of American cotton to Europe.
The ambassador pointed out that
the war had greatly reduced the de
mand for ootton goods, so that the
Great Lancanshire factories were
dosing up and running on a reduced
scale. The principal obstacle In the
I way of normal importations of Amer
i lean cotton, however, he said, lay In
I Greet Britain'* obligation to cortnuti:'.
as far as possible the Egyptian cot
ton crop in order to prevent Just such
a depression In Egypt as now exists la
tly* Southern Amerlcsn states.
All of the great German and Aua
trtan and even French mills are prac
tically closed to the Egyptian product
U* the war, the ambassador added.
AIKEN PEOPLE WILL
OPPOSE INCREASING
INTERURBAN RATES
Proposal of Augusta-Aiken
Railway & Electric Corpora
tion That Passenger Fare Be
Doubled Will Be Fought.
Aiken City Council Will Meet
to Take Action Before Hear
ing is Held in Columbia.
WALTER E. DUNCAN,
Staff Correspondent,
The Augusta Herald.
Aiken, S. C.—The people of Aiken
are up in arms against the proposal
of the Augusta-Aiken Hallway &
Klectrio Corporation to double the
passenger fares on the interurban
line. The news that attorneys repre
senting the corporation appeared on
Wednesday before the railroad com
mission In Columbia and asked for
permission to make the fare 60 cents
instead of 25 cents, reaching here to
day, set the people talking. From one
end of the business streets to another'
1 heard the matter discussed, and all
that It Is possible for one to hear is a
protest.
Mayor Herbert B. Gyles stated this
afternoon that the city council will
meet to take some action In view of
the hearing to he held In Columbia
on October 22nd. and gave tile defi
nite assurance that the city govern
ment will strongly oppose the propo
sition. Mayor Gyles stated that he
I wit' himself attend the hearing at the
stave capital, a* will dozens of citi
zens.
"We will give the railroad corpora
tion the fight of their lives," said
Mayor Gyles this afternoon.
Thinks Augusta Should Help.
"The people of Augusta." he added.
"the merchants, the tradto body, the
By HOB AN
city itself, should fight with us
against any increase in the p;issenger
lates on the Augusta-Aiken line. Not
only from Aiken, but from all the
towns along the line throughout
Horse Creek Valley, the business
houses of Augusta get a big trade.
They have more to lose than we have
to gain. If the rates are permitted to
be increased. It will mean that fewer
people will continue to trade in Au
gusta, at least the vorume of the trade
that goes over there will be consid
erably cut.”
Only one man with whom I talked
hero today would he willing that the
fare be Increased at all. Mr. John C.
Hutson is of the opinion that, consid
ering the service, the 25-cent rate is
enough; hut in view of the depressed
conditions which the company pleads,
Mr. Hutson said that he would not
protest against a rate of 30 cents, In
stead of 25 cents, hut that 50 cents,
In his opinion, would work too great
a hardship upon the people.
Women Are Opposed.
Many Aiken women shop In Augus
ta, patronizing the Augusta stores lib
erally. They are all opposed to any
Increase In the rates. They do not
feel that they can afford to pay a
dollar for a round trip to Augusta,
that 50 cents Is sufficient.
How They Argue.
While the contention of the corpo
ration that the Augusta-Aiken inter
urban line is one of the longest In the
South and that Its passenger rate is
the lowest, about one cent a mile, Is
recognized, and there is no disposi
tion on the part of the Aiken people
to be unreasonable, they contend that
other Interurban lines, which charge
2 cents a mile—for instance, the line
from Washington to Baltimore, which
Is forty mites In length and charges
75 cents or 11.25 for a round trip—
affords conveniences which have
never been provided on the Augusta-
Aiken line. Among these conveniences
Is a through car. making several trips
a day. For several years past there
has been an effort on the part of the
Atken people to Induce the Augusta-
Aiken Corporation to put on a through
car, which would make the run In one
hour Instead of an hour and a half.
They have never succeeded In getting
a limited car. No toilet* are provid
ed on the car*, no smoking compart
ments, a* on other line*, and until
very recently there were no separate
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10. ~
BY “BUD” FISHER
compartments for white and colored
passengers. With a maximum of
comfort in traveling, as on the inter
urban line in the Piedmont section of
South Carolina, the people of Aiken
would be more responsive to a pro
posal looking toward a reasonable in
crease in the rate.
It is also argued here that the Au
gusta-Aiken line traverses a section,
which with the exception of stretches
of a few miles—particularly between
Aiken and Granlteville and between
Clearwater and Belvedere is
thickly populated. There are five
cotton mill towns enroute and sev
eral other settlements, and the people
of these towns patronize the cars lib
erally. Talking this afternoon with
Mr. Stevenson, superintendent of the
Langley Manufacturing Company, at
Langley, I learn that the people down
there are equally opposed to any In
crease in the passenger rate.
Would Be Regarded as Tax.
Since the building of the line the
people of Aiken have come more and
more, for ten years, to using the cars,
depending upon the convenience they
afford, and it is argued that the rea
son set forth in the petition filed with
the railroad commission—business de
pression—is felt by the people who
patronize the cars as well as by the
corporation, and that to grant the pe
tition and raise the passenger rate
would be to impose a tax upon the
people for the henefit of the corpora
tion.
Aiken may he depended upon to put
up a strenuous fight agtinst the prop
osition, and when the hearing is held
in Columbia dozens of citizens will
go to the state capital to lend their
individual efforts to give strength to
the action to be taken by the city
council.
Theatricaj
Notes of Inter esl Ij
ANNETTE KELLERMAN IN
“NEPTUNE’S DAUGHTER."
Announcement is made that the
opening performance' of the moving
picture feature, Annette Kellerman in
“Neptune’s Daughter” will take place
at the Grand next Tuesday. This
photo-play met with enthusiatic re
ception in New York, and was en
dorsed by every critic, as an excep
tional picture. The story deals with
the Land of Make Believe. For two
hours and one-half we wander from
one beautiful scene to another, while
the creatures of this mystic land un
fold a tale that might well have come
from the pages of Hans Christian An
dersen.
Annette Kellerman as "Neptune’s
Daughter," dives, swims, dances and
fences, and does some remarkable
acting. As the principal figure In this
romantic drama of land and sea, of
the realms of the Immortal King Nep
tune and the mortal King William,
Miss Kellerman is ever on the screen.
"Neptune’s Daughter” will have an
engagement of three days with dally
matinees.
“MUTT AND JEFF IN MEXICO;”
Grand opera was succeeded by
comic opera and comic opera by musi
cal comedy. Legitimate drama gave
way to farce comedy. Dramatic, melo
dramatic, travel and educational mo
tion pictures are falling prey to the
ravages of comedy pictures. The
answer; The people want to laugh,
first, last and all the time. This has
been the nucleus of Gus Hill's suc
cess. He has always aimed to make
people laugh, therefore It la not to be
wondered at that “Mutt and Jeff
hqlds the undisputed record of finan
cial and popular success of recent
theatrical history. Laughter Is the
most popular sensation 'on earth.
“Mutt and Jeff was conceived for
philanthropic purposes; to cheer man
; kind and to make them forget their
’ real or Imaginary troubles, in which
(quest these two eccentric "near hu
| man” characters have been eminently
j success.
“Mutt and Jeff In Mexico" comes to
the Grand next Friday, matinee and
| evening.
! “PEG O’ MY HEART,” MONDAY AND
TUESDAY, OCT. I»th AND 2toh.
Lovers of the unusual In the drama
are awaiting Impatiently the coming of
| “Peg o' My Heart.” which Oliver Mo
ro»eo le sending to th# Grand on Mon
day, October l»th. for an engagement of
three performances Thl* work of J.
Hartley Manners. 1* one of the eenea
| tlona of the theatrical world, end proves
beyond *ll civil that the public wIU go
to see a decent dean play, even though
; It deals with a phase of life, of which
the general run of humanity know* lit
tle It !■ the heart quality In the un
■ usual etnry of ■'Peg'' which has crested
It* tremendous vogue Th# east which
will present the play her* Is mad# up of
Tbanche Hail. Pelham. Linton. Joseph
Allenton Alma f*he#t#r Ruth Oaetlsrd,
R-vlng White. Fred L. Rraucs-Tldei?,
and A. T. Hendon.
MUST HAVE LOfT HIS HEAD
FIRST.
Johnny—Did old Coinstax lose In
terest In that chorus girl?
Cholly—inter'ail 1 ahould say, and