Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 15, 1915, Page 3

c,.;,a-:«ue-n-s-n@a«:»g AMERICAN ASSOCIATION .. R L EEEEEEEX R Standing of the Clubs W. L. Pet. 9 .701 12 .556 12 520 13 519 13 480 13 409 15 .348 Se18 -.15 .13 .. 14 .12 anapolis .. . isville .. Paul waukee .. eland neapolis . mbus .. Qe IRENSVROHQ * NATIONAL LEAGUE ° . TR EEER-EE-EN-F N Standing of the Clubs W. L. Pet. 8 .652 10 .600 10 .565 14 462 13 .458 15 444 14 440 14 .391 ..15 adelphia .. A0 .. .o on .. .- .\:.13 sburgh .. .o .. ..12 innati . . S & Louis .. .12 oklyn .. .o11 b YOrk o o4l 0o eo® Results Yesterday t New Rork 3, Cincinnati t Boston 4, St. Louis 5. t Brooklyn 4, Chicago 19. t Philadelphia 5, Pittsbung 3. VR PU RV SO PO R SOUTHERN LEAGUE L3 -0 - 3 = IR = IR -3 3 Standing of the Clubs W. L. 10 12 13 12 =} L =4 ® o Pct. 667 586 581 .20 Sl | w8 .16 .14 .10 1 .10 v Orleans .. ingham hville .4 .. ttanooga .. phis .. le Rock pnta . . Results Yesterday t Atlanta 2, Memphis 8. t Mobile 2, Little Rock 5. t New Orleans 3, Nashville 2. t Birmingham 5, Chattanooga 8. TO SEA! To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er. The wanton water leaps in sport And rattles down the pebbly shore; The dolphin wheels, the sea cows snort, And unseen mermaid's pearly song (Comes bubbling up the weeds among. Fling broad the sail; dip deep the oar. To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er. To sea, to sea! Our white wing- ed bark Shall, billowing, cleave its wa- tery way And with its shadow, fleet and dark, Break the caved Triton’s azure day, Like mountain eagle light O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves; the ship swings free; Our sails swell full. To sea, to seal ~Thomas Lovell Beddoes. soaring e%fl%fi-‘rQ%Q@Q ': AMERICAN LEAGUE G*D(!’Qififiéb‘ib*fli Standing of the Clubs W. L. Detroit . . Chicago .. . Boston .. New York Cleveland . Washington .. Philadelphia .. 13 St. Louis .. 18 .18 16 s sl .13 .11 Croe0 @0 SOUTH ATIANTIC POBOL0IOSB SO Standing o the Clubs WL «.21 8 % ) Albany .. Macon .. . Charleston .16 13 Columbus A 15 14 Savannah .. .. .. ..13 15 Augusta {3 b b Jacksonville A1 18 Columbia .. 11 18 Results Yesterday At Albany 4, Savannah 3. At Columbia 6, Macon At Augusta 4, Columbus 3. At Charleston 7, Jax 0. POROPOLODO @O FEDERAL LEAGUE LR R RN Standing of the Clubs W. L. Pittsburg v Kansas City .. Newark Chicago .. Brooklyn St. Louis .. Baltimore .. Buffalo . .18 9 14 11 12 12 12 13 17 20 Results Yesterday At Pittsburg 0, Chicago 6. At Buffalo 1, Newark 5. At Baltimore 4, Brooklyn 12. WARFARE. Regular troops alone are equal to the exigencies of modern war as well for defense as offense, and when a substitute is at- tempted it must prove illusory and ruinous No militla will ever acquire the habits uneces- sary to resist a regular force. The firmness requisite for the real business of fighting is only to be attained by constant course of discipline and service. 1 have never yet heen a witness to a single instance that can justify a different opinion, and it is most earnestly to be wished that the liberties of America may no longer be trusted In a nra- terial degree to so precarious a defense - George Washington, The froutiers of states are ei ther large rivers or chains of mountains or deserts. Of all these obstacles to the march of an army t most diflieult to overcome is the desert: woun taius come next, and broad riv ers oceupy the third place.— Napoleon The Secret of a Good Figure often lies in the brassiere. Hundreds of thousands of W wear the Bien-Jolie Br it as necessary as ere for the reason that they re a co It supports the bust and and gives the figure the youthful outline fashion decrees. 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Big FURN |Stock of - Furniture BELOW, to departments. when you can_buy all want at FACTORY (By Associated Press) 1 New York, May 15—The efforts E |buing made in both the major {leagues and the Federal league to speed up the daily cames is already beginning to show results. plaints from the cities represented in all three circuits, first called the attention of the league executives to the fans’ objections to long drawn out contests and there was immed- iate action on the part of the base- ball authorities. President Ban Johnson of the American League notified the junior organization club managers that less time must be consumed in play- ing games and that several time- killing practices must be discontin- ued. President Gilmore of the Fed- erals took a similar stand and in- timated that he might offer prizes in order to shorten the average play- ing session. In the National League the matter was also given careful study and several plans considered to improve the conditions. A study of the playing time fig- ures of the three leagues discloses some interesting details ng the April contests as a basis it is shown that the average in the Amwmerican League for from ten to thirteen contests is two hours five and one- half minutes. The Federal League clubs under similar conditions re- quired two hours and two and one- quarter minut-s to play nine innines while the National League made the best showing with an average of one hour 52 1-2 minutes. Of the individual clubs of the American League the Washington team led the organization with an average of one hour and 51 minutes. Boston and New York followed with averages five and seven minutes slower respectively. St. Louis con- sumed the most time, the Browns requiring two hours 19 1-2 minutes with Chicago but one minute faster. The Philadelphia Nationals were the hustlers of the Tener circuit, averaging one hour and forty-four minutes for ten games with the New York Giants but one-half a minute slower. Chicago required two hours and cleven and a half minutes and Pittsburgh also crossed the two hour mark. In the Federal League the Pittsburgh club showed the best time averaging but onme hour and fifty minutes for thirteen games. Buffalo showed the other extreme requiring an average of two hours and twenty-seven minutes for twelve 2ames. Four of England’s leading profes- sional golfers sail today for this country and British golding authori- ties predict that one of the quartet will win chief honors in the United States National Open. Ray, Vardon, Duncan and Mayo form a formid- able entry and the American players will have to be at their best at Bal- tusrol a month hence in order to kecp the National Championship in this country. An English expert writing of the invasion states: “The British quartet this time have the very best prospects, and it at least likely that the humiliat- ing defeat of Brookline will be avenged. The American climate is not likely to be at its worst from the British point of view in June. Then vardon and Ray, who are both play- ing well, though the circumstances of the times prevent much atten- tion being given to their forms and doings, acclimatize quickly in Amer- ica, and have had the inestimable advantage of experience in the championships there. They will tackle the ordeal of Baltusrol in a different frame of mind from that in which they engaged upon their task at Brookline, and will, moreove not run any risk of being overplay- ed beforehand, as they will have just three weeks on the other side to f lick their game into proper Ameri- losing Out Sale We have decided to close out our entire COST and make room for our other Don’t pay a - the Furniture you PRICES & & PROFIT FIRST COME FIRST SERVED Kimbrough ly Co. Com- ! il (can shape. As to Duncan, whose chances in this expedition I regard as being as bright as they possibly could be, there is this to be said— that though he has not taken part RERRIE " EARNING A TROUSSEAU By MAUD BEASLEY. (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) Simmonds, the owner of the chain of stores, was a man between sixty and seventy years of age. He had a fringe of white whiskers under his chin, he was not particularly well groomed or spruce; in short, he was uet in the least the kind of elderly gentleman who would attract the af- fections of a pretty girl of twenty. Lizzie had secured her position the in the American championship he was in the country on a short tour four years azo, and on that occas- ion he played some wonderful golf on various American courses. “Charles Mayo, the Burhill pro- fessional, who has been in partner- ship with Duncan on many memor- able occasions, has not been in America before, and it is difficult to estimate his prospects. He is a sound golfer, and very steady, and is not so slow as he used to be. T might add that there is a possibility first day she looked for one. She had come up from the country, and when she had saved up the price of a trous- seau—a really elegant one—she meant to let George Robbins, at present em- ployed in their home town as mana- ger of a little local store, lead her to the altar. Simmonds certainly appeared inter- ested in Lizzie. Before the girl had been in the store a month he had already contrived to have her sum- moned to his private office at least a dogen times. “How would you like to act as my stenographer, Miss Holt?" he inquired of a certain British amateur—one who has not won the championship either here on in America, be it said —making the trip as well as the professionals, and if he does so he will need to be taken into most ser- ious consideration, for I do not think that any amateur in this country is playing better golf at the present time, and hardly a professional either for that matter.” Reports from Australia indicate that baseball continues to grow in popularity. The seventeenth an- nual report of the New South Wales Baseball Association shows that the general advancement of the Ameri- can game was more marked in this state in 1914 than in any previous season, and that the standard of play in all grades was of a high character. A special note expresses satisfaction at the success of school baseball, the wisdom of fostering the game in the nursery section being exemplified by the victories of the youngsters in the interstate match- es. As to Tinances the Association has a sum of about $1, crease of almost $600 over last sca- son. An interesting insight into the manner in which baseball gossip oc- casionally upsets big league circles occurrer in New York recently, Manager John McGraw, of Giants, having signed Benny Kauff, of H\e{ Brooklyn Federals to what he con-! sidered a binding contract, a club official confided to a friend that the Giants had made a splendid deal whereby a sensational outfielder was to join the New York Nationals. Asked where the player was from, he answered, Brooklyn. The friend, who is a thirty-third degree fan, forgetting of the exist- ence of the Brookfeds, immediately jumped to the conclusion that Zack Wheat, of the Brooklyn Superbas, was the player meant. He passed the story along and others furnished still further details, including the name of the Giants players Perritt, Murray and Robertson as the trio scheduled to wear Brooklyn uni- forms. The officials of both clubs were | dumbfounded when they heard the story and it was not until Kauff |tried to jump from the Brookfeds to {the Giants that the explanation of |the alleged deal for Zack Wheat was found. President Charles Eb- bets, of the Brooklyn Nationals, is +still busy explaining to indignant Brooklyn fans that he never had any intention of trading Wheat and that McGraw referred to Kauff when he spoke of a Brooklyn out- fielder. It is likely that the eastern tennis team to be selected by the U, 8. N. L. T. A., for a playing tour of the Pacific Coast will consist of R. Nor- ris Williams, national champion; G. M. Church, eastern intercollegiate champion; T. R. Pell and W. M. Washburn, This quartet includes three of the first ten ranking play- ers and one in the second ten. Wil- liams is No. 2; Church No. 7; Wash- burn, No. 9 and Pell is one of the class | players which is composed of those racquet wielders graded from eleven to twenty. This is the most representative four that the east can supply since Alexander, Clothier and Behr, the other eastern ranking players can- not give the time necessary for such an extended trip. Just what this iquartet can do against the stars of California including McLoughlin, Murray, Johnston, Fottrell, Griffin and Strachan remains to be seen. Certainly the invaders will find formidable opponents defending the California courts. Felt His Importance. Many of the New York playgrounds have swings in which the kiddies can pull themselves up high above the ground. One little boy drew himself up, and gazed around delightedly: “Oh, I can see a bird; and there is a leaf that I can almost touch, and—" he folded his arms proudly—"“Oh, gee, I feel just as important as God."—Ex- change. Hoarseness. As soon as you have any indioa~ tion of hoarseness take a large fresh lemon and bake it until it is soft, squeeze out the juice and sweeten. Take a teaspoonful every 15 minutes until relieved. upon the last of these occasions. “I don't know much about stenog- raphy,” admitted Lizzie. “But I could learn, I suppose,” she added, think- ing of the increased salary and the improved trousseau that would re- sult therefrom. “Well, I'll tell you what I'll do,” said the old man, staring at her in a way that brought the blushes to her cheeks. “I'll pay for you to learn at the night school on the next block. Then when you are competent, maybe there will be a place for you in here!” The stenography lessons were a failure. Lizzie made no progress at all. Her vain little head was filled with the thought of the trousseau, and the hooks would turn the wrong way, and the consonants turn themselves into impossible angles. Meanwhile Lizzie continued at the store. Sim- mond's attentions were now the talk of everyone. Lizzie could stand it no longer. “Well, I'm going in to resign,” de. clared Lizzie, and stalked toward the private office. The girls waited. Exactly at the noon hour Lizzie emerged, a bright erimson, by the side of Simmonds, Whose arm was drawn through hers. Down the aisle they walked, Lizzle crimsoning still more as all eyes were turned on her. So they went into the street, and Bill, the boy who swept up, reported at one o'clock that they were having dinner at Haffney's. Lizzie Holt's vain and childish mind was fairly turned by her em- ployer's attentions. She spent the afternoon careless of the black looks of all around her. She was living over that delicious hour again. Mr. Simmonds certalnly was a gentleman, even if he was old. But that night, when the reaction had come, the girl faced the problem in her room alone more seriously than she had ever faced anything. She was not so ignorant of life but that she could see the meaning of her employer's maneuvers. But she was {gnorant enough to feel helpless. She could not face the crowd in the store again. Either she must be true to George or—well, she saw the alter- native quite plainly as the hours wore away. And to her credit the thought of George triumphed. The next day she left her rooming house and engaged a room in anoth- er. She did not return to the store. She obtalned a position with Mar shall's, and in a week she had com- pletely forgotten the incident, except that ghe felt a little proud of herself as the heroine ot a quasi-adventure. Then one day a familiar figure en- tered. He was an old gentleman with a fringe ot white beard, and he was accompanied by a very motherly look- ing old lady. They came slowly up to the perfumery counter. Simmonds looked up, to encounter Lizzie's fright- ened eyes fixed on his. “Why, bless my soul, it's Miss Holt!" “Here, mother! This is the young lady I was telling you about, who disappeared so mysteriously from the store.” . The motherly woman came up to Lizzie. “My husband has been talking to me 8o much about you,” she said. “I am SOrry you went away. derstand how you felt. You see, Her- man {8 a little abrupt and strange in his ways. Go away, Herman! I am going to talk to Miss Holt now “You see, my dear,” she continued, “we lost our only daughter a year ago, and Herman was passionately devoted to her. And after you got to working in the store he came home and said to me, ‘Mother, one of our new young ladies is the very image eof poor Lucile “I told him that it musu be imag- ination, but he kept talking about you and so [ promised him that [ would call and sce you. You know Her- man is always interested in his young Jadies, but he rezlly felt like a father toward you. And he knows how hard a girl's lite is in New York, and want- ed to do all sorts of things for you. ‘But you mustn’'t scare the girl, I kept telling him. He did, though, didn't he? But now you understand the situation, and—you'll forgive Her- nan, won't you?" And the trousseau was finer than anything Lizzie had ever dreamed of. Don't worry. The song of the lawn mower will soon be heard in the sub- urbs. ’ Uncle Eben. “Some men,” sald Uncle Eben, “does everything deir wives tell 'em to, foh de sake of handin’ 'em de blame foh Whatever goes wrong.” Stopped Roosters’ Crowing. A Massachusetts farmer's wife, whe Was in bad health, was greatly dis turbed by the crowing of the roosters in the early worning. 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