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SIX THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1916. 5 - Sport News j E Fl Boston Red Sox Creeping Up On Indians and Hare Fine Show New York, July 24. The bleachers ore empty in most, of tlie big leugne cities today as the National anil Amer ican league clubs shifted their battle grounds from west to east ami vice versa. Pullman coaches are holding the bull players enthralled, according to the popular fancy, lit other game of chance besides baseball, n glnnce at the averages shows the general situa tion unchanged despite the weeks bat tling. Brooklyn and New York the two best teams "on paper" are making tfood on the field. Four out of seven, with one tie game wns the result of the dodgers week's work, while the Yunss were nabbing five out of sev en with their crippled lineup. Still coming up with a sternly rush which spells a wnruiux for any leader who fails to watch its step, the Boston Red Pox threaten to break the Indians ana are now second oniy a rew poiui from the top. The only other winning feature was Philadelphia 's victory over Cleveland, their first in ten games and the only one of the week. The Nntionnl scramble is tighter to day as the first division teams slip ped, slightly, New York falling from the select four qnil St.. Louis nud Cin cinnati playing better ball than usual. The feature event of this week will be the game at the Polo grounds to morrow when Christy Muthewson, idol of New York funs for over a decade, lends his new team, the Hods agniust the (limits. The teams will go into the fray this week materially stinngth ened and with better pennant chances. The Giants with ller.og putting pep into the team nud plugging on infield gap, are getting set to overcome the polo ground jinx. In Wilde Ktllifer, they iinvo probably the best utility outfielder in the Icngue. The Yanks, too, will be strengthened when Frit. M nisei, with his throwing in shape ngniu, reports at Chicago ready for net ion. v Hughoy High and Itny Caldwell, two other cripples, nre ready for the fray. Donovan s team will need nil their stars, however, for Detroit, Chiengo and Cleveland will td lie fresh holds on their homo dia monds tomorrow ami the coming scr ies is practically certain to be the Kinking or breukiug of more than one pennant contender. Welsh in Training New York, July "4. Freddie Welsh is training hard today for his buttle with Bonny Leonard next Friday night The champion claims to have the grent UHt respect for his youthful challenger nm is down nt lloiiglnston, Ij. I. mak ing up for the brief spell in t milium tie took after his limit with Charley White wns called off. Tennis at Portland Portland, Or., July 24. Preliminary mutches in tke Oregon state tenuis eluimpionships sturted today at. the Wnverly country club ejiurts. Homo of the best plavers of the const clash ed. Allvu Burlier of I .oh Angeles, Stan ford I'uivcrsily crack. Irving Kurski and Clyde Curley, the California en trants, showed up well in the turly play Mvron Hutchinson of Lewiston, Jdulio, champion of thnt state, wns one f the most formidable con test ants. 1. K. liiciiardsoii, Oregon champion in Ift I, met a high school boy, Harry Stevens, in the first match. Another Hitch Bobs Up Chicago, July 24. Another hitch to the proposed elsh-w Into go bobbed up here today. After Promoter Pitts ill the Colorado Springs athletic club MELLOW-SWEET . IS TASTE OF '"SPEAR HEAD" Most Richly-Flavored Chew That Was Ever Pressed ! Inta Plugs FAVORITE FOR A GENERATION Ued-blooded men with real tobacco b linger find that they can satisfy it only by chewing, and the most wholesome nd satisfying tobacco to chew is that made in plug form. - The limit of luxury in tobacco chew Hip! is the rich, iwcct, jtiicy flavor that tcjcktei through your system when you chew Spear Head. i No other chewing tobacco is so mcl low, to luscious and so satisfying. No other equal Spear Head (or putting a keen edge on your appetite. Spear Head is made of the world's bust tobacco leaf the choicest of red Kentucky Burley. This leaf is selected Tor its full, juicy richness with the most painstaking care, is stemmed by hand, is pressed into Spear Head plugs so slowly that not a drop of the rich, natural juice escapes. Your first chew of Spear Head will open your eyes to the genuine enjoy ment there is in chewing. Chew the rich and mellow tobacco that has been the favorite for a third of a century that's Spear Head . In 10c cuts, wrapped in was paper. had given in to White's demands that he be given $4,000 instead of 2,!0U as his end of the purse, it was discov ered that White was scheduled to meet Benny Leonard at Brooklyn August 10. i'lurry Pollock, manager of Welsh, and one of the promoters staging the White-Leonard go, would not cull tne bout off, and there you arc. I'itts hnB wired the Colorado club for permission to go ahead and sign Welsh and White regardless of the Leonard date without foundation. Contract is Signed. Chicago, July 24. Representatives for Freddie Welsh and Charley White signed articles here today Tor tt 20 round bout for the lightweight cham pionship beforo the Colorado Springs. Colo., Athletic club, Lnbor day. I Watching the Scoreboard Pacific Coast League Standings. W. L. Pet. Los Angeles .r.S 44 .fiiiH Vernon U 47 .5(15 Sun Francisco OS 52 .527 Portland 4(i 4(1 .500 Salt Luke 47 51 .4S0 Onklund 41 47 .300 Yesterday's Results. At Suit Lake, 8, Portland 11. At Sun Francisco, 4-0; Vernon, 0-5. At Los Angeles, 1-0, Onklnnd, 1-0. Both Salt Lake and Portland put up Garrison finishes, but the Beuvors hud the. hardest punch anil won. After Bunny Brief, of I'tali, hnd tied the Bcore with a homer in the eighth, Spcns of the Wucka. poked out a twin huckor in the ninth that made the count 9 to 8. Thero it stayed. Snn Francisco shoved Vernon out of First, place by beating the Bengals twice. Kriekson held the Tigers to thrco safeties in the nnte nierediun. Tr.mvers nf both faction were roilL'll- W- linu.lloil in the second set-to. but San Francisco clustered its whacks in the seventh and sent across the winning tnllv. Score 0 to 5. Onklnnd broke even with T.os Ange les. Beer hnd the Seraphs helpless nil morning. It, inn In Hie nfteriioon yielded three runs in the eighth, giving Los Angeles n six nee lend. Kenworthy innde the (Inks' onlv score with n double thnt tal lied two. Voxlcnlnv 'a biir leninio hero wns Mor- decni Brown. The three fingered wizard of yester your dime bnck and to the cheers of 20,0110 Chiengo bugs, bent the (Hunts. Tho miner didn't do uuythiiig iiiii-tlinir. hut the verv fact that he trimmed the (limits made him one of the world's great men with the ( uh fa ns. Muu fli.i Wliitit knv fil'Mt ullelter. irot a triple, two doubles, nud two singles out of six times up. The Browns whipped Cleveluud when they jammed over three runs in the tenth Inning. Knell side played error less bull. Irmirtclt. who went to the Reds almost unnoticed in the .Miithewson-llerzog deal, got two triples and n single in four times up, but his team mates failed to deliver and last to the Phillies, 8 to 1. Earned runs, Salem 4, Brad fords 0. Left on bases, Salem G, Bradfords 5. Time of game, 1:40. Umpire, Graystou. There ore now no reasons visible to the naked eye why the Lojns should not finish the season as pennant winners. In the Baby Beavers-Woodburn battle at Portlund yesterday the Beavers were victorious. Other results in the inter city league were: At Camas, Wash. Camus, 3; Kirk patricks, 2. At St. Helens, Ore. Monta villa, 9: St. Helens, 4. IANS CUT I (Continued From Page One.) On the right bank of tho Meuso, in the course of a detached attack on St. Fine Chapel, French forces captured 30 German prisoners. During the last 10 days in this section, 800 enpitves have been taken. , North of the Aisno, tho communica tion declared, a trench wns cleared. In the Somme region bad weather is inter ferring with operations. Aviator Shy 60 Miles. Paris, July 24. A French aviator, Antoine Mnrchnl, who started from Nancy in an aeroplane, for Russia, via Berlin, failed in his aerial race by a bare 00 miles, according to word here today. He was captured by the (Ser mons nt Cholm, in Poland, after having dropped proclamations on Berlin. Nancy lies on the French Alsnce-Lor-raine frontier. Cholm is in Russian Po land, 50 miles north of the Austrian frontier. Mnrclial must have flown nearly 1,200 miles to have covered the distance between these two points, in cluding Berlin in between. This, in it self, is n remarkable exploit, but even more astonishing was his feat of fly ing over Berlin, dropping proclamations on the city, and making good his escape. Hud Mnrchnl been able to fly 50 miles farther beyond Holm he would have lauded within the Russian lines. Germans Say Gains Small. Berlin, July 24, British troops fuiled to obtain any foothold in their offensive along the Po.ieres sector, the war office statement declared toduy. "The only ndvnntnge the British ob tained yesterday nlong the line from Thiepvul to Guillemont wns at Pozieres. where they penetrated n few houses," the statement asserted. The statement added that the engage ment nt Po.ierosh hud cost tho British heavily in dead ami wounded. South west of Guillemont, British forces en trenched in n Bund quarry were dis lodged and driven out by the Brandon burgers. Along the French bnttle front, enemy operations at Souyecourt and west of Verm and Ovillers failed. On the right bunk of the Mouse the French artillery wns described as "intense." On the eastern front thn communica tion snid, 'enemy attacks northwest of (lerestzko hnd been repulsed. British Aro Pleased. London, July 24. "The prospects of bnttle are good, British generals are more satisfied they are confident thnt victory is assured," declared War Min ister Lloyd George in the House of Com mons this evening. Boats Not Dsfnaged. Berlin, July 24. "Our torpedo bonis returned from n point close to the nioutn of the Thames undnmnged after Sun day s short engagement," snid an ot ficinl stiitemeiit issued here todny. Thirty-five hits were made off the nine pitchers used in the White Sox Detroit game. Logus Beat Bradfords by Score of Six to One The dope, was correct. The l.o.jus took the Bradfords into camp yesterday nfternoon to the tune of fl to I. With the exception of the first frame, in which the locals galloped around the bnses five times, the contest was an in teresting one, characterized by a num ber of verv good plays. The attend ance was light. The score follows! Bradfords. Hits. AB. VO. A. K. 0 Jett, Mi 4 1 1 1 0 Kennedy, K., c.f 0 3 1 0 0 Burr, rf 3 0 0 0 1 Luckey, If 4 0 0 1 0 Hughes. 2b 4 1 1 1 1 Hoi as 4 2 1 1 0 l.odell, lb 3 12 0 0 0 Ring, e 2 5 3 0 0 Swnrtz, p 3 0 4 0 2 Totals 27 24 11 4 - Have Not Caught Bremen. London, July 24. Denial that British war vessels huvo captured the sumnn riue freighter Bremen, sister ship to the Doutsehlnnd, wns given toduy by offic ial authorities to the United Press. ft Now Is the Time for Some Unusal Values In Clothes You know that the clothes we sell are always good value. Our policy has always been to give big values at every price that is particularly true of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes Bishop's All Wool Clothes They are so good that when ever you get these clothes at our prices you get a bargain. Hart, Schaffner & Marx - Bishop AO Wool Suits Emery Silk Shirts $30 Suits now $23.85 $15 Suits n ow- -$11.85 $5 and $6valuesviiow. . $35 $25 SuitQ now. $19.85 Special line $25 values $10.00 $4 values now .$2.85 $20 Suits now $15.85 $15 Youths' Suits . . . .$H.85 $3.50 and $3 values now $2.35 Special Values in Mens Shoes Just Wright Shoes Crossitt Make Rice & Hutchins $5 Rubber Sole Oxfords $3.95 $5 Tan and Black $355 $5 Oxfords and Shoes, in $5 Tan button and lace $35 $4.50 Tan and Black . . .$3.65 Rubber sole . ....... .$3J5 AH Straw Hats V2 Regular , TV. Price SALEM Irunks $5 Hats $2.50 wnm FftJ Mil 1 Five Trunks left that the $; Hats i en rr Vyvyi-rl-il V IVlilAuiJ price will appeal to you. m " J QTIPT Come and see what a few $2.00 Hats $1.00 1 dollars will d I E James Whitcomb Riley Dies Following Stroke of Paralysis Salem. Hits. AB. PO. A.F.. 0 Humihrevs. 2b 3 .1 3 0 2 lteiuhur.1, c,f 4 0 0 0 0 Houser, c. .. 3 2 1 1 Adams, rf . 4 2 0 0 1 Kennedy, W., lb .... 3 12 0 0 :l Keene, p 4 0 4 0 I Miller, s 3 0 3 0 I Cole, If 4, 1 0 0 II Gregg, 3b 4 0 3 0 II Totals ..... 32 27 15 1 Score bv Innings: R. H. K. Salem I I 0 I 0 1 I- II 1 Hits .. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 I x 0 0 Rrndfords 0 1000000 0 1 2 4 Hits ..0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 Summary : Runs, R. Kennedy, Reiuhard, Houser, W. Kennedy, Keeiie 2, Miller. Two-base hits, V. Kennedy, Reipl. Struck out, by Keen I, by Swart 5. Base on balls, off Keene 0, off SwnrU 2. Hit by pitch ed ball, Houser. Passed ball. House, Mug 2. Sacrifice hit, Humphreys. Stol en bases, Reiuhard 2, Houser, Miller, R. Kennedy. Kelpl. Double plays, R. Ken nedy t Keipl, Reipl to Blug to l.oedell, Miller to Humphreys to W, Kennedy. Austrians Withdraw. Berlin, via Snyvillo wireless, July 24. Austrian troops south of Tatarov withdrew in the fnco of a strong ad vance of Kussiuii troops, according to official announcement in tho Vienna communique of yesterdny made public here today. "In the Russian war theatre," the Vienna communique rends: "south of Tatarov, where we were threatened by a strong Russian advance, we withdrew our troops, fighting on the Mug urn to wards the Carpathians main ridge." Repulse of Italians in the Austro Itnlinn war zone wns announced. "After some dnys of quiet there was fighting yesterday south of Valsugnua and Paneveggio,1' it was stated. "The Italians were repulsed." Infantile Paralysis Epidemic Jumps Again N'ew York, July 22. The infantile pnralysis epidemic took another big jump upward today. Physicians fight ing the malady who yesterday after two days of decreased eases, optimisti cally predicted the epidemic would soon pass, were nstoulieded today when official reports showed 39 deaths in the 24 hours ended nt 10 a. m. the largest since the epidemic broke out on June 0. There were Lt.'i new eases. Yesterday there were only 81 new eases reported and the deaths were only 32. Pnnic stricken by the epidemic here, cities and towns of New Jersey and Connecticut are sending back huudreda of N'ew York men, women and children seeking to go to their summer homes. Despite the fact that they showed no symptoms of tliT' disease, 123 per sons from Greater New York arrived here early today, having been barred from Mountain View, N.".T., where they were forced to sleep in the rail road station there all nif;ht. WIVES Or MILITIA BOYS ASKINO rOS WORK Tortlnnd, Ore., July 24. Three Port land wives whose husbands are on the Mexican border with the Oregon troops, today, through tho newspapers, applied for work to enable them to "make both ends meet," while their bread winners aro wearing khaki. Two of the women, one with two children, asked work as seamstresses. The third would like to be located as stenographer. She haa ion four years old. x fndinnnpolis. Intl., .Tnly 24. Tudiuiia bowed today before the bier of a sim plu man, who, without pretense or schooling, became its first citizen. .hum's Whitcomb Riley, interpreter for lloosierdom 's most. Uitimnto emo tions, lay dead in his Lockertie street home. lloosiers generally were inclined to accept as their own the tribute tele graphed by the upper nuirshul: "To live for humanity bo that each succeeding age will be happier, is to attain immortality. Tins Is the rec ord of James Whitcomb Riley." Tho body of the iet, who died nt his home late Saturday night, will lie in state in the rotunda of the state enpitol from 3 p. m. to fl p. m today. Tho lloosier poet died nt 10:."i0 o'clock Saturday night, soon after lie had passed into a peaceful sleep. Death was due to paralysis. At 7:30 a. m. Saturday he suffered a violent stroke, but apparently bad recovered from this. Riley suffered a violent at tack of pnralysis in l!UO and his en tire right side wns completely disabled Riley wns bom Oct. 7, 141), dying in his sixty-seventh yrnr. The exnet dnte of his birth was not generally known until nfter his death, because the poet for some unknown reason was sensitive on the matter. Hardly hnd word of Rilev's dents been received before Indiannpolis and Greenfield, his hirtiiplnce on the Krniulywine, uegnn a rivalry for the body. There is a va cant place in the Hiley plot at. Park cenieterv nt Greenfield, and Greenfield claims that Riley wished to be buried there, where he wrote: "God is His own interpreter, . "And he will niuko plain. " But Indianapolis asserts that public reasons favor his burtal here. The board of directors of n large cemetery probably will vote tod.iv to otter on behalf of the eitv one of the most benutiul sites for the Riley grave. Rilev's funeral will be held tomor row niid will be private, according to. the wishes of the poet. The body will placed tvr tho present iu a vault at frown Hill cemetery here. Relatives said the body probably would be final ly interred at Crown Hill. Redmnod Center of Storm In House London, July 24. John Redmond, Irish nationalist leader, was the renter of a storm in the House of Commons this nfternoou when he bitterly assail ed rrcmier Asquith for dilatory tac tics in solution of the Irish question. Redmond emphatically repudiated an interpretation by Asquith of Uoyd George's promise for immediate action on the rt of the government in es tablishing a government for Ireland which would permit i f further delay. He asked and obtained leave to move adjournment of th ionse pending a debnto tonight on tho question. The Irish leader was greeted with a storm of ciieers. The Irish members greeted his denunciation of Asquith with ahouts and yells at Asquith as such phrases as "Scrap of paper, "vou betrayed Belgium you are be traying Ireland." Producer Griffith Has Set Enchantment to Music Never before, even in grand opera, hns matter in glowing and highly col ored action been so masterfully, ef fectively brought out by menus of musical accompaniment ns in The Birth of a Nation. Kvery single passage, whether it be a terrific buttle scene, a cuniiintr bit of statecraft or maneuver, n snatch of tender pathos, a homely folk or ehar ucteer sketch or n rippling humorous view, is musically explained to every a mazed spectntor nud listener. mi limb iinnii a aimu-v fmL nt linl. .vi. .v.... .. .-...v.. j n, ... v . ton on a sleenv plantation down in I Dixie Land and immediately you ex perience the drowsy hum of the bees and the ever droning songs of the dnrKies in their native heath. The scroll unrolls and reveals a deadly battle of thousands of deprer- nte nud blood-mad men and ir.stnn- taneoiislv is borue to your ears, first and, all the thunderous bursts of can non, nenr and far; every explosion, ritle shot, accurate bugle call in ev ery quarter and, at the same time, the swells of martial music that is be ing carried like a triitmphnut flag through it all. There are other places where but the twuiig of a simple liun.jo to soothe the patients in the hospital is heard and still others in which the arousing trum- Lpet calls of the Ku Klux Klan resounds ami tills the stillnesses ot the soutn ein night. Tales of love under the scented jns mine arc brought, home to every lienrt with the tender strn'.ns of "In the Gloaming, Oil My Darling'' and the Freedmnn's Bureau is enlivened by reul old Camp Meetin' tunes. The drn untie element and the musical of the presentation mav be likened to Mr. Griffith's sentiment throughout "Liberty and Union, One and Insepa rable, Now and Forever." Dog Obeyed Master's Call On the Phone Rochester, N. Y., July 24. Will Me Kny had to telephone his dog "Nipper" to come home todny. "Nipper" went in a hurry when his master phoned. Nobody else had been able to mako him budge. Will and "Nipper" went fishing Sunday. "Nipper" wandered and -Mc Knv returned the seven miles home without him. McKay's host phoned to day that "Nipper" had shown up but would not go borne. "Put him up to the phone," said Mc Kay. It was done. "Nipper, come homo right away," said McKay sternly. "Nipper barked "yes, sir, all right," or something like that into the mouth piece aad dashed madly for borne. T Ulysses Aubry and Frank Lake Killed When Auto Jumps the Track Refuses Casement the Right to Appeal T.onilon, Julv 24. The attorney gen- ernl today refused a certificate which would enable Roger Ca.senient, con victed iu the Irish revolt, degraded from his knighthood and sentenced to death, to appeal direct to t'ne house of l.ords. Ofticiul aiiuouucement of the attor ney general's refusal to permit Case ment to make such an appeal was made this afternoon. Our circulation is stlu climb- in up r read the paper and you'll know the res son. , Portland, Or., July 21. The bodies ol Ulysses Aubry and Frank Lake, killed 'on the Rose City gpocdwny when Aubry 's enr crashed through the fence, will be taken home to Tacoma todnv. Mrs. Aubry, who witnessed her husband's death, is in a serious condi tion from shock. Physicians say she is on the verge of nervous break down. Aubry, with Lake as mechanician. j wns driving sixty miles an hour in the eighth lap ot the Australian pursuit when his mnciiiue shot .-icro-s the truck, through tke fence and down a 2.ri foot bank. Both meu were practic ally dead when lifted from the wreck age. They were rushed to the hospit al, where surgeons pronounced both dead. Several minor accidents occurred during the race meet. I Omar Tol't of Los Angeles, won the "0 and 20 mile races. Kea Lent of Seattle, in a Romano special, won the Australian pursuit race, and turned the fastest hip in 51 seconds. A fish said to resemble a silver half dollar, also a white poker chip, which hns recently been sent from Florida to the New YorK aquarium, has a head about the size of a piu. . v MA) fm THE BIRTH A j CFA NATIONS KA Scene in "Birth of a Nation," now showing at the Grand Theater, matinee and evening