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SCOOP HE 1S COMING Td AVIATION SERVICE WITH ME— AND TO MEET HIS TRAIN OR LET HIM KN¢ THE CUB REPNRTER LETTER. “FROM TH’ Béss-SEZ TON TH! J WHERE I AM / Tamar’ AVIATION FIELD - AND NO SQooP Ta 7 TOLD HiM Vo LET ME KNOW WHERE BASEBALL SCORES SHES OEE SH OO OES ¢ AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. & FRSSSSSESSTEO OOS Chib— Indianapolis St. Paul ... Louisville Columbus Milwaukee . Kansas City Minneapo! Toledo .. GAMES SATURDAY. Milwaukee, 4-0; St. Paul, 1-4. Louisville, 0-6; Toledo, 5-0. Columbus, 4-3; Indianapolis, 2-4. Minneapolis, 7; Kansas City, 1 GAMES SUNDAY. Milwaukee, 9-2; St. Paul, 8-7. Toledo, 3; Indianapolis, 1 Minneapolis, 8; Kansas City, 3. Kansas ‘City, 4; Minneapolis, 4. Columbus, 3; Louisville, 1. , ee a ae a ¢ AMERICAN LEAGUE. ° SPOS HHPSCSEH SEO OS Clnb— W. L. Pet Chicago se 85 47 644 Boston .. vs. 16 47 618 Cleveland . we TL 5S .5a0 Detroit . 67 Gl 523 New York . » 56 65 46S Washington . 65 4 Philadelphia TS 866 St. Lonis ............5. 81.367 GAMES SATURDAY. $t. Louis at Chicago. Chuab— R.H.E St. Louis +e 612 0 Chicago . 23, 9° 2 Batteries—Koob, Rogers, ‘Groom and Severeid; Danforth, Williams andé Schalk. Philadelphia at Boston. Club— R.H.E. Philadelphia ...........+.... 180 BOSton |... eevee eee e eee ee ee 612 3 Detroit at Cleveland. Club— Detroit Cleveland _ Batteries—Daus Cunningham and Stanage; Bagby and O'Neill. Washington at New York—rain. GAMES SUNDAY. St. Louis at Cleveland. Club— R. H.E. Cleveland tol St. Louis .. 491 Batteries—(Torkebon, Coumbs and O'Neill; ‘Wright, Sothoron and Sever-| eid. First game— Detroit at Chicago. Club— R.H.E. Chicago . 710 0 Detroit .. 210.2 Batteries —Cicotte and Schall 3; Mit: chell and Stanage. Second game— Club— R.H.E Chicago . 5.2 Detroit 9-4 Batteries—Russell, Danforth, Wili- jams and Schalk; ‘Lynn, Cunningham and Stanage. ‘ No other games scheduled: GAMES TODAY. St. Louis at Cleveland. Detroit at Chicago. Washington at Philadelphia. New York at Boston. SHOTS HOHHE OH OOD e NATIONAL LEAGUE. ° SHSHTHESHSSEDSEOO OS Club— W. .L. Pet. New York ... aes 647 Philadelphia . 67 568 St. Louis . - 68 asbts Cincinnati 68 519 Chicago . 63 49% Brooklyn 59 492 Boston .... 50 Pittsburgh Preece re 40 GAMES SATURDAY. New York at Brooklyn. That’s Why Matty It’s the Base Hit That Brings. the Fan to His Feet; ’s. Reds Hape. Recome res < So Popular _—— Matty's leading batsmen: Left to right, Rousch; Groh, rit: th, Neale and Clarke. BY PAUL PURMAN The base hit is the heart. of base-! Dom. ball. Fans like superb pitehine Mey enjoy brilliant — fielding—but come down to cages, “the thing ¢émmon as crowd the hotels where the clubs of that which makes the baseball get up and yell is the well known base hit, extra if possible. All of which recalls t fi hitting club in the world. st time in baseball history the Cincinnati Reds are the greatest batting .300 or more, Rouse h, the "A major league club in Anno 1917 batting around 22 hearkens 300 averages were as to hittand flies in the molasses at time stopped. , And that’s just what the Reds! at for the are, doing. Five -members of the club are league léader, Groh, Neale, Grif- ack to the days of ‘88! when a base on balls constituted a; fich and Clarke, The three ont- ieldors an infielder and a cateher | Chase, league batting king is not much behind. Other members of the elub are | dangerous d timely hitters, | “vy Kopi, a ackain eastoff h in run. scoring in the i , the honor being held by re inside. the select cirele. A riteher, Renther is flirting with G0, last year's National; diminutive Heine Groh, The Reds are a mighty popular club this year all around the cir- cuit. because they are keeping in the first. division. But they are popular everyplace else, mainly because y know ,how to produce base s, real jringing erashes which bring the fans ont of their seats. It’s the base hits that count and the Reds are cashing in on them. Chicago at Cincinnati. ; First game— Club— 5 R.H. Chicago ..... ese ceeeeeeeeree Let (Cincinnati .........++eeeeeee 27 Batteries—Vaughn and Elliott; To- ney and Wingo. Second game— Club— R.H. Chicago 15 Cincinnati 303 Batteries—Hendrix ler and Wingo. St. Louis at Pittsburgh. First game— Cluh— R.H. St. Louis . 1d Pittsburgh 0 5 Batteries—Horstman and G jonzales; | a Cooper and W. Wagner. Second game— Club— St. Louis .. Pittsburgh ‘ Batteries — Watson and Carlson and Schmidt. Boston at Philadelphia, two games postponed—rain. GAMES SUNDAY. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. Club— Cincinnati Pittsburgh and W. Wagner. St. Louis at Chicago. First game— Club— Chicago St. Louis . Garages and Elliott. Second game— Chicago .. St. Louis . lott. No-other games scheduled. GAMES TODAY. Philadelphia at Brooklyn. Boston at New York. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh. Chicago at St. Louis. e Hot Meals on the Since the only which the passe ing. practical way of an airp Jar, the idea has been su; the manufacturers of nir Club— RUE New York .. -312 0 Brooklyn . 281 Batteries—Sallee and Rariden; Ca- dore, Smith and Krueger. number gf pockets or wall ¢ vacuum bottles, so that the filled with pre-heated food, could be! St. Paul carried in safely.—Scientitic American. and Wilson; ’ E! Sny der: Batteries—Regan, Mitchell, Schnei- der and Wingo; Grimes, Evans, Steele Batteries—Packard and ‘Gonzales: Club— R.H.E. 9 7 Batteries — Meadows and Snyder; Aldridge, Prendergast and Wilson, El-| + t would do! well to build into their machines a too a i 1j 1 BE} Great Lakes, Ill. Sept. 3.<Cal 0 1 by BS ane | hoxer, can have a hot drink or hot food fs through the use of a vacuum bottle or SPORT St. Louis, Mo, Sept. 3.—Mem- bers of the St. Louis Americans will receive $20.83 each as their share of the $500 prize offered by E.' president Johnson of the Ameri- ¢an league to the club winning the competitive military drill, Twen- ty-four players will ent into the ize. Sergt. Winfred B. Wise - Who drijled the players, will vet $100. a Cleveland feather-a treat Lakes Na ation. Cal has |fought Joln y mille and other fap notehers in the 122 pound ti vision and ranks high in the fistie ‘tworld: IIe probably will act as | fassistant to Gunner Jack Kennedy, who is instrueting young jackies in boxing. Several well known pugilists and wrestlers are hold- ing ela at the Great Lakes Naval Training station, The gtap- plersy are Ben Rueben, claimant of «the middleweight. champion- ship; Jack Gruppel, Ierb Singer and Sam = Varron. The _ latter three are amateurs. Manriee Flynn, Morris Bloom and Eddie Nearing are among the Chicago boxers .at the station. The Great Takes Training sta- tion ball team is attracting atten- tion throughout the middle west. The team has won seven of its nine igames from some of the strongest clubs around Chicago. Phil Chou- inard, former outfielder with the jDaaneys fght, is at the ¢ Training the team. Cleveland, O., Sept. 3.—Charles 3] Hitte, trainer for the Cleveland s, not only intends to re-enlist in the navy after the son closes, but announces that his son, Charles Titte, Jr., intends to serve on one of the nation’s sea fighters, Hlitte saw active serviee in th> navy during the Spanish- Ameri-, ean war. He was a gunner’s \mate. 5 | <Tndidnapokis, Sept. 3.—Jack La- vin, a Pittsburgh middleweight, \who is doing ‘this bit’’ in the reg- tar army, is anxious for a mat th with Jack Dillon, the Indianapo.is to years ago, but the contest wakpostponed. Lavin is station- yed-at Fort Benjamin Har lly will be granted a furlough a natch is arranged. Ch Sept. 3.—Leo Dressen, first baseman, heen parehased by the Detroit Chieago |- Chicago White Sox, is managingian averace of who has, i oer in addition to being! 0) hitters of the Am- ; American s, ameng the evican’ Association, brought © his base stealing’ record up to _ fifty, according to averages ineluding} gamés of Wednesday. Dressen also took the lead in ing with , deposing Massey linneapol- Kirke of Louisville continues as eading batter with an average 1 with Demmitt of Columbus Kansas City, tied for h 313. Beeker of Kan- s City inereased his home run record to twelve and Bronkie of Indianapolis boosted his lead in sacrifice hitting to 33. Louisville tied Kansas City for honors in team. batting with .264. | Leading batters for half their elub’s' games: Kirke, Louisville, 21; Demmitt, Columbus 313; Viox, Kansas City 313; Becker, Kansas City 309; Anderson, Mik: waukee, .304; Dressen, St. Paul} 301; Altizer, Minneapolis * .299 Henn, St. Paul .298; Williams, 297; Mollwitz, Kansas City .294. “Ping’’ Bodie, the Philadelphia slugger, continues to climb in the Ameriean league, averages inelud- ing Wednesday's games showing him hitting fifth among: the -reg- ulars with .308, In the last seven games, Bodies made eleven h one a home rim and two doubies Cobb, the leader, continued his re- markable batting driving out thirteen hits in seven games. Sisler clug to with Speaker the 1916 batting champion. trail- ing two points behind. There is a spirited race among the home ‘run _ hitters. \Bodie, Veach of Detroit and Pipp of New York ,each having seven. Bush, the Detroit shortstop, has » Sve point lead over Cobb, his teammate, in seoring. having « ‘the plate ninety-five times in 120 games. 1 Roth of Cleveland snatched the {lead in base stealing away from Chapman, his teammate. Roth has stolen thirty-nine bases, one more than Chapman. who, howev- er. continres to lead in. sacrifice hitting with 58. Detroit. leading They were matched ab: anit in team batting has an average of poy 261, Heading hatters ‘for half their Inh’; mms Cobh. Detroit 288 Sisler . Tonis : Sneaker. Cheseinnd 350: Warris, Cleveland L216; Bodie, Philadelphia» ».308; Veach. Detroit 308: Chanman, Cleveland .302; Felsch, « Chicago ; | 200; cond place with}- for command} y MeInnis, Schang, Phil- Boston 2O5 Ley Philadelphia adelphia rept. 3. Chi With an aver- age of Roger Hornsby, the St.Louis infielder, regained -sec- ond place among the league batters, according te.aver- ges including games of Wednes- lay, released today. Cruise, his teammate, second a week ago, fell into third place with 313. Roush of Cincinnati continues to show the way with 349. ! Teinie Groh of pressing THornsky total base hitting. stretched 132\hits Cineinnati is for honors in Hornsby has for a total of cirenit doubles run, Horn: has eight drives to his eredit, 21 and fourteen triples. The veteran Zack Wheat’ of Brooklyn boosted his average ten points within the last week, Jjump- ing from thirteenth place: in the fist of regulars to § with an average of 305. Robertson of New! York tied Cravath of Phil- adelphia for | home. run ‘honors, each having nine. Williams of Chieago grabbed the lead in sac- vifice hitting with 25. Burns. of New York continues as the lead- ing scorer with 84 and Carey of Pittsburgh: in base stealing with 8. New York tied Cincinnati in am batting with an average of Leading batters for half ‘their elub’s hames Roush, Cineinnati , St. Lonis 324: St. Lei 313: Kauff, New 312; Groh, Cincinnati .312: Brooklyn 305; “ Wilhoit, York Wheat. New York .304; Zimmerman, New 299; Carey, Pittsbugh 297: New York ‘ nig’s hopes. Seal or men- tal exercise she has in mind. We ought to stage an old time ng tournament. The Jess Willard would have to fight to saye his face. | Miss Molla Bjuestedt won't let er rackets out of her sight. She nat use them for snowshoes in wintey, 9‘ At home they are popular}? Nationa] | yy, 205 bases, with the Cineinnati|Joe Katz ... third baseman, who has bagged Hd: Reena, Register of 151 hits, only two bases behind F. H. Carpenter Lumber Co him. Groh has driven out 33) 31. p. Moore doubles, eight triples, and a home] D. C. McLean. |piteher, did chortle some when he | Struck out .Ty.. Lobb and Bob | Veach. Labor Day has been named right only for fighters and baseball play- fers. . i. Lee Fohl-saw he was’ on the {bad end so he sent in a rookie pitcher to sew up the gamme for \the Tigers. And Tughie Jennings \didn’t even thank him. OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF CiTY COMMISSIONERS. y Commissioners | Present, nt Lucas. et the meeting of July ad and approved. rte that he Cquaty, Com- rds.Lhe County, and ted at the corner of h That they eof the barn ‘ould they give ils half of the tharn. Vr committee ef two, Ce Pertsch and Kirk, to take noving the barn. The report of the Chief of Police for Tidy. 1917, showing sixty arrests onth of July, 1917, showing weighed, was received anc filed. ,for the month of July was received wd filed. th: month of July, 1917, was received anl re erred to Commissioner Best. The report of the City Assessor, 433 $257.00 taken in for licenses arious kinds during July, 1917, was 2 report of the Police Magistrate July. i917, showing $95.65, taken in, was received and filed. The Financial Statement for the month of July was received and or- dered filed Attyrey Koffell appeared and spoke for Jolin P. Hoagland in regards to re-! "paiving the burnt building located be- veen Sixth and Seventh streets oa & to grant Mr. Hoagland to repair his building. The f{cllowing bills. were allowed aud ordcrcd to be paid, funds permit- ting: Bismarck Water Supply com- pany \..... A. D. Galusha 10.05, 1.00 Lomas Hdw. Co 10.59 French & Welch. 14 Geo. Wallace . 8.00 Otto Dirlam George Gussner . by ‘ Wachter Dray & Transfer Co. Geo. Heapiga wre French & Welch Chris .Martineson . French & Welch . Nortz Lumber Co. . North Dakota Independent Telephone Co. Soo Fow J C."Teierney Lomas: Hardware Co. Chas. F. Bleckreid . Vossbeck & Son Jos. Breslow of Knowles &. giigne. J. P. French, Sher %. W, Scott, Matt, ‘clgoten : Hughes Electri Ci Bismarck Tribua' i Mrs. W.A. Cleveland. Vossheck & Son Jos, Breslow . 3.00 . H. Carpenter B. K. Skeels . Harris & Co Webb Bros. Wachter Dray & Transfer Co. Joe Brelow : Brown & Geierman . Webb Bros. Christina Rol F. H. Carpenter Lumber C French & Welch Wachter Transfer C Kupitz & Co.. Wonder Store. Mandigo + Frank Gabel” 12) oo Mrs. John Robidou . 10.00 , F. R. Smyth M.-P. : D. C. McLean 99.74! Hanlow & Okes . 10,000; 0 W. A. M. Cleveland. $6.09 | Pat Kelley 158.10 Dakota En n- . ttacting Co. .. + 1,500.00! Fredric Bass . C..L. Young .. oo! T. R. Atkinson . T. R. Atkinson . 478.08 Pat Kelley ...... Gedney & Murphy Torkelson, the Cleveland rookie Haggart Construction The report of the Milk Inspector He The report on the City Water | F. L. Conklin« 30.00 Hy ¢. Taylor ; 20.00 *.L. Conklin . 15.00 If C. Taylor . 10.00 Upon motion the board adjourned, to meet again September 3, 1917, at eight o'clock p. we Cc. L. BURTON, City Auditor. SANITARY SEWER ASSESSMENT. is hereby given that a spe- sment for the construction of a Sanitary Sewer gn Ave. A from Raymond street to Hannafin strect in | Sewer Improvement District ‘umber One, has been levied against the fol- lowing real estate in tne sums set Ir e the description of each tract or parcel of real estate, to-wit: McKenzie Addition. Amt. Amt. j Lot Block Benefitted 4 7 15 $29 18 15 7 16 8 16 9 16 10 16 ul 16 12 16 13 16 Mol 6 Slate of North Dakota, County of “Bur leigh—ss: The undersigned, E. C. T F, L. Conklin, the Special A: ; Commission of the City of B N. D., do hereby certify that the fore- going is a complete list ‘of the bene- fits and as: ments against each lot ‘or parcel of land assessed in the City of Bismarck, N. D., for the ‘construc- tion of a Sanitary Sewer on Avenue A from Paymond street to Hannafin , street in Improvement District Num- ber One; that the amounts set forth in one colunin is the amount in which said tracts or parcels of land are | benefitted by said Sanitary Sewer, and in another column} the amounts in which said tracts or parcels of land are assessed. The same is a full as- ylor and Commission passed a mo-” sessment of the real. property therein described to, the best of our judg- ment; that the following items of ex- pense are included in such assess- ment, as follows: Contract cost of work. $435.00 Engineering expenses 31.80. Advertising and expense of commission 39.16 It “¢ hairman, F, L. CONKLIN, Member. N. D., this 24th Dated at Bismarck, day of August, 1917. Notice is hereby given that. there “will be a meeting of the Special As- sessment Commission on the 15th day of September,.A. D. 1917, in the City oa 10) Hall in the City of vismarck, North Dakota, commencing at 10 o'clock a. m., to hear objections that may be , made to any assessment contained in the foregoing list by any person inter- gsted therein or by his attorney. t E. C. TAYLOR, ' Chairman. D,, this 24th as 8-27:9-3 ij | Dated at Bismarck A. D. , NOTICE—SEALED BIDS. ‘ , The School Board of Long Lake School District No. 48 will "receive sealed bids until 7:39. p. m. Friday, Sept. 14, 1917, for the erection of a two-room ‘frame building, 32x36 feet, with full basement, according to plans and specifications, which will be on file with the clerk of the board on and after Aug. 14, 1917. This building is to de erected in the town of Moffit and i sto be completed and ready for ty within 90 days from date he contract. , ids must be accompanied by a certifed check for 5 per cent of the zinount of the bid, payable to the of the 1 d. Aug. 1917 Ry order of the school board. L. L. LOCKWOoon, Clerk Tong Lake School stri ere chool District body of a woman Mundred years ago ited near Dente, Hol- has been land. —_——___ Never Heard of Bible. A boy of ten, called as a witnoss at Marlebone er. behalf of the education ‘department of the London county council and @escribed as very intelli- sent for his age told the ma 6.00 | had never heard of the Bible and did not know what it was. He also sald he had never been to church or Sunday | school. “Yon cannot do anything wita i this boy,” said the magistrate. “He does not seem to know the nature of