The evening world. Newspaper, May 4, 1918, Page 9

Revocation of Licenses the Most Effective Way of Curbing the Increasing Recklessness of A TRAP SHOOTERS WILL AGREE THAT A BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE CLAY utomobile Drivers, F a motorist ts @ consistent offender for reckless driving why should he not be deprived of his driver’s license? The most amazing feature of Secretary of State Hug annual report is the fact that no licenses were revoked in 1917 because of reckless or negligent driving. the Dieasant surprise. Astomobile Editor: I have just removed the valves of my Buick for the purpose of grind- 'ng and would thank you to advise/another turn and couple it up again; me If It Is essential to place each one} I did this and was then able to start back tn the same cylipder or does it| tbe motor, but it does not fire not make any difference, I notice that there 48 considerable carbon on|T have no self-starter. As per the the pistons and in the cylinders. What manner would you suggest for |S!¥en as 1-2-3-4 connected with the removing It without oxygen burning. ‘Two of the cylinders aré scorched and I have been advised that by placing a small quantity of powdered graphite around the walls before re- placing the valves {t would at least partially fill the crevices in the cyl inders and the noise of the slap. Do you consider this advisa- ble? J. M. PAULIS. It is always practical in taking your valves out for grinding to mark them so that you will know the cylinder that each was taken from, as tt Is onsen absolutely advisable to put them pack in their proper cylinder. As to remc ng carbon with the oxygen burning, would suggest that you use old fashioned method of seraping with regular carbon scrapers made for this particular use f do not advocate the use of pow- dered graphite on walls of your eylindera, Attomebile Ldite Is it possible for a boy under eigh- teen to obtain a driver's license? If 80, kindly tell me how. T have been driving my father's car for over a year and can safely say that I can handie it as well as most HEADLIGHT CONTROLLER, Here is a novel device. a new light control. This equipment con- trols the lights instead of dimming them—a feature that is most impor: driving down an un- night, it is a dan- tice to dim the lights at approach of another car, This new headlight, says the Illu trated World, provides a strong light, yet contrclsy it where the driver wishes— either straight ahead, or along the ro only a few feet. It ig mechanical In action, and con- «plat wings, lamp sockets. nects these wings to a foot lever in the floor of the car, chauffeurs. My father ts not afrald to let me drive !t when he ts along, for, in addition to being the owner of tt, he has a driver's license. If it is possible for me to obtain a driver's leens\ uld you tell me how I will 0 go about getting it? have to CG Ea Driving licenses will not be granted to anv one under eighteen years 0 ago, but would suggest that you Ket in touch with the Secretary of State's c office, located at 66th Street and Broadway Autom, Editor Have a Dodge, new J 1917, and it climb any short st cannot make p hills (nc s without having it knock. 1 retard the spark which helps a trifle, but the car will knoc per cont. grade (with a good yon) 00 fect long. car has given mo / on a run to get Otherwise service and am well plea I find it work better (but cannot eliminate the knock) by not pressing too hard on an accelerator. car is registered in my name as owner (New York license), Can ny daughter, age twenty-one, run it and comply with tho law! A READER, There seems to be two possible causes for your car not showing proper amou. ower, One Is that it might be fu , with the valves the other might be due to your motor being out of t Your operate an operator's office for the Automobile Vait In overhauling my car last fall I shter, age twen! one, m ust have h can be of State's nad occasion o remove the mag neto, but I did not touch the timing {tor sotting it up again, I me reason 660 drivers lost their licenses in Connecticut. Fines and even jail sentences don't check the increasing recklessness of motorists. The most effective means would be the revocation of licenses, Secretary Hugo plans a closer co-operation with the Courts of General and Special Sessions, and the habitual traffic offendcr is in line for an un- er could not start the same and was advised to give the magnet four when driving, though spark plugs fire when runni instruction book, the firing terminals 1-2-8-4, it is at pres: nected as 1-2-5 3-4-2-1. If I reconnect as per tion book and turn the shatt, do you think I will timing right Would also ask good plan whether 9 put felt-packe: bles over worn valve guides to In- better compression, or is {t Necessary to have the valve guides reamed out and rebushed. W) sure the more costly job? ©. There but that your mot: one assist you—some one thoroughly conversant with timing. I do not approve of felt-packed thir guides to tn: but would suge w ire better imp ney of ‘our motor, Kindly tel me in your aut that T may take by aut Brooklyn to From Brooklyn to Mount Rrooklyn to New York, New Yo West 424 ‘erry to Weehawken: Miles. To Je ee To Ne 56 To Or 1.0 To South ¢ 4 To Springti To Chatham . Madison ae 45 Mount V tral Park to Lenox Avenue an Street, up 110th Street to 145 to Mott Avenue, North on Mot to Concourse, ‘up on Cuncor 184th Street st on 18ith St Webster Avenue Avenue, to 282d Street to Whit Road to Mount Vernon, Automobile Editor: |teen years of age, According can Idrive my brother's car? According to law, driving eighteen years of age. Automobile Editor: will you tell me tf tt 1s possible to wir \a Ford car the storage batter, |Keep the battery charged or | possible. As the Magneto n. |generates current I have thou this could be done. Aftor overhauling the mo! | Proof I find good compres jon Tt doesn't seem to be a valve happened again after this Ia hauling I thou me what It could be. ‘The me a slight miss but pulls prett The miss is not due to ignitl {t be caused by thia weak c is necessary to have all fou ders reground {f it should be one cylinder is defectiv I do not know of any way t | will keep the battery a generator. If you find that y eak compression in one fter having put In new piste compression. Automobile 14 I own a fiv vuring car, 1917 model, anc ke to know if it would be i |to the car if I place extra the rear. It should not be injurtous two extra seats in the t | your providing you do n |all heavy people all the time. Antomdttle Biter |. Win you kindly tet jest route from Jers \1 y City ile Bailor ndly let mo know in you ut @ good six-cylinder seven ger car by the day, week or 1 would like to hire it out Go | know where to apply ‘Tl think the best way for get a customer to hire out y with the terminals magneto W. HASS is absolutely no que r is out of tim and, as proper timing of a motor {s absolutely essential to good running. | I would suggest that you have some —_——— | ‘ WO clay birds, for eome unac- les over worn valve | st having new guides, ch will greatly increase the eff-|of Boston in the trenches of Travers coluinn of the two following routes|as ono feather. 1, From | platnec r a Sroreaioenn i platned, was because James Clark fr. From Brooklyn to Morristown: Brooklyn to New York through Cen North on Webster Iam pa E. Balzer, may not be tssued to anyone under |I have so that the Ford magneto will|on two occ putting In new piston rings, Gill La | of the cylinders and very poor in one. | A new block was set in lust y | this same condition existed 4 mechanic turned the car over to me. nt you could adv CHARLES DEMPSEY could wire up your storage battery to a Ford magneto so that your magneto | charged, In| order to keep a battery you must have | I would advise a now piston \§ |eylinder which does not show proper | the. assenger Overtana| 2 ee 4 would WILLIAM CHALEK me know the A READER, mopile column whether Ic; ernment if I could, but I do not JAMES TALLO, | would be to make arrangements with | | Yet for 0 shaft n all all the ing idie. order is ent con- instruc- get my A.F.MEALY OF Ys A) Tl waosor., ont: d thim- Boston Marksman Easy Wihner of Preliminary Shoot for National Clay Bird Title. wh motor putting By Bruce Copeland. countable reason, es deadly aim ression, ped the! of James Clark jr. | Island yesterday and fell safely into omobdile| the sound without losing even so much This, as was ex- Vernon, | the Boston Athletic Club was en- J. i,’ |Joving an off day. ‘The deadshot Adonis from the Hub pele erat rey Brey WAS slightly o: e of Amo. Blackington and Lou Tain- two Ire ote ay ride. missing | ter. the fumoua “Haig & Haig” twin /Prtedelie tata) scount all} of ‘the Boston pigeon killers. Ami Total |rumors of 75-mile pea~ shooters| was the lowest on the list for the day|to the good nature of Georgo J. Cur- Miles. | blazing away at a distant targe!. py-|With a measly 108, but he hit well|bett, Captain of the N. Y. A. C. in- jmuess-and-by-Jupiter! A man who|*bove .300 with the gallery through-|fantry, But after the smoke had dcan stand in changing light and | cut, ime afternoon. cleared, Capt. Corbott, who sald he is ‘ dep chee thoes nd a! His partner fared little better with|not related to “Gentteman tin,” i |sportive May sea breeze and shatter /his gun, but redeemed hiinself by] thought the best part of the day was % 198 clay pigeons while 300 shells is| giving a perfect imitation of Falstaff | his session under the showers—in the o Jentitied to an off day. at a country club, Blackington and|club house. Corbett sure likes his it been for the droll _wits|natty knickerbocker tweeds were the official shooting regalia, He said they wero, Tho success of the meet was duc Street 11.9 Tainter might well be Ma ote “ad alled the Ger-| bath. 6 | Clark also shattered all the trap | many Schaefer and Nick Altrock of! Yesterday's meet was only confined | national trap! non; jshooting records of the New York! the range, and still give the baseball Piety | Atlletic Club, under whose auspices | comedians cards and all the aces in| ———— eneonehiantineaies ¢ ot {the big national championships are|te deck. The best we can say for a street re held them is that they could get a laugh n No amateur who ever out of a dying clay pigeon. urse to} pulled w trigger or allowed his vision| After the sedate marksmen hud reet, tc] to roam hopefully along the sights | packed away their guns and called {t of his favorite shotgun would hardly|@ day, Amos and Lou discovered Lad dare hope for such a slaughter, jblood between themyeives. ‘To tell Phis achievement 19 noteworthy in|t2@ truth, this happened when 1 bye got too playful and tried to scra st six-|that Clark was shooting on unfa-| his initialy on the nose of Amos. to law|miliar ground into ever changing |order to get revenge for the wo light and against a sea breeze that) Amos bet his partner a $50 Liberty seemed to fecl as skittish ag last| bond that he wag the best shot. licenses | year'y fiivver in a new coat of paint. | they were given a range and a reforce Bvery time « thin wreath of smoke |and told to go to it. belched from the muzzlo * gun,| Amos soon discovered that the traps a kindly | Clarke had the supre faction | Were throwing him too many curves, e@ up On| of seeing p scatter In all|and for a moment he thought he saw y which | directions and fall into the Sound. but|@ hundred birds, lut he gritted bis ons tho traps must have|teeth and blazed away, taking a 8 it im-|had @ fast hop on the pigeons, or else Nee on hitting one op the edge o aturally|they sprung a spit-p on for Clark | the ght that} to shoot at. The gallery wagered that} the wind had given the birds an un-| hi tor and|tsual break: but James Clark jr. of! s k | Boston was willing to call ita day. — | be in three], The big, boyish marksman js the] s {deal typo of trap shooter—tall, ex-| although he gave his trigger the so- pansive, good-natured, and with @lcret tug. Sure enoush upon breaking hand as steady as Uncle Sam in the! the weapon, the Rebel 4. pinches. It takes a pretty oven tem-[pin dented and Hue As this | Per to Shoot a mean gun, and usually | each time A notlt of a st over. |® champion of the traps has a simon |Siianre. and si |Dure sense of humor, or clso tt ts safo] other bind escape. Ioventually Assos stor bas | 0 say he couldn't hit the broad side| pur DIN! Guoape, Hventually Ara jof a barn }lost bis Liberty bond. y Rood . 6 tren i r Pat can |; ae tet A ap infantry had ains | lorld's Handball Championship cox of ¢ was more conservative with | mmunition and managed to wing | ne gold ones, Amoy imight have n the victim of a practical jok 9 of his shots didn't even shuot, ear and fter the of the cra + AN | to take two clouds of » In shoot A. C,, was ylinder? ing for the money, F. C. Griffith of | Piised during one of the squad Ny eylin- | Watkins, N. Y,, followed Clark with a| when his gun went dead on an ea hat th |total killing of 192 for the Jay, RL, | filght, He guiled his trigger with Spotts of the Travers Islanders was | perfect range, but there was no report third best gun with 191, which was| tnd the clay pigeon fell into the w you) SOME ng for @ temperamental|ter unscat A dcoper | May da: crimson mantled the marksinan's All n rs recelved gold| brow wh upon breaking his gun, ches ne vered the chamber was empty vo Jone women ventured to m: | W. HL Yule of Akron, O., shot a 1 |thetr aims with t of the sterner|mean behalf of the City of rings | 8X vere M A. G. Wilkes of | Ptornal if you choose, the im ene8 San Frar irs. H. Harrison| City wi den Bound, Akron t he Hoth women proved famous for {ts rubber and pete with the rismen; and Yule of Akron was ‘ nners attired that our heavy titting ca But the day would have been drab|toonist had the gall to ask him tf bis 4 ‘ou have njurious ie MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS ea rine NATIONAL LEAGUE, j AMERICAN LEAGUE y OFT crups | WoL. UBS W, Pe. || CLUBS W.L. Pe.| CLUBS WL. Pe. ot carry |T New York..13 4 Pittsburgh 8° @"-498 | Howton... 12 4.750 | Pallas... 3°8” SAS H 3 ry Ser |] cn 9 4 .092| W Pad | ke ay (Ramos . tht 186 br1|trovshyes 410 Bee ES eland... # ¢ 092) Waah..... £9 381 1! Like Other Famous Athleti Clncanatie, 78 46 214 | Now Faris 74 a6t | Se Louls.: 8) OFF an He Com . RESULTS OF GAMES YESTERDAY. icers He Comes From Yew York, 5; Boston, 1. New Fort tokiyn, 0" Pilladelphla, 2, Colones 9, Cines 8. ‘Louis, 6; Pitteburgh, 2 GAMES TO-DAY, | New York, 2, Boston, 2, (11 Innings), Chieade 19; Deirolt, 3, Philadelphia, 5, Washington, 5, ‘Cleveland, 6; ot. Louis, « Mayo, Camp | By Arthur (“Bugs"’) Baer. ar autos |] New Yorr at Boston, Boston at New York, n hire Philadelphia at Brooklyn, | Washington «t Philadelphia, EDESTRIAN i Peta Cincinnati at Chicas | Detrol curb at Tir wa Daanon- | Sinead Pitta land at St, Louis, A detah se } to the HOW THE OTHER CLUBS MADE OUT, s pel lia NATIONAL LEAGUE, AMERICAN LEAGUE, nial, & eyed officer 1 tebunets ant denne | RILY } have you to| 850k oLs Bors " Pea hae heer ieee | nshiy your car riee-Awvre’ and Ainsmith; Myers ' y i un, M " certain garages in your locality to| LHe anoo2— a w ' give you whatever calls they get for 9100000038 car hire providing they have not me Willetea: oad Reniik: same : ars of thelr own, Regarding hiring | Your car to the Government, I do not | |know really what branch of ment service does not own ar, ove to the preliminary 3 will be fired to-< « Missing Only Two Birds Out of 200, Clark Makes Record at N.Y. A. C. Traps THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1918. SPORT WORLD NEWS OF ALL KINDS PROCRASTINATION ‘IS THE THIEF OF TIME; PINOCHLE HIS FAVORITE ALIBI 1S USUALLY . new ama Kelly, Traffic | Policeman, Is Back From Cincinnati With U.S. Handball Title’: The big y all along the vers Island front, and after they run out of ammunition, there will be ur champion among the “BELGIUM to Play Regular Games on By Hugh S. Fullerton, Cowra, Wee Yok™aane, Wordts HERE will be no Sunday base- a bail in Harrison, N. J., next Sunday, and the odds are that the major leagues will never play ball there, ‘The threatened war between the National Commis- sion, American and the American and National League: against the little Interna tional probably is over, and tn its stead there appears to be an active re- bellion in organ- ined Dawseball against the Na- tional Commis- mission, The eommis- sion, led by Ryron Bancroft Johnson, more than a woek ago ordered Wash ington and the Yanks to play tn the territory claimed by the International. Washington pleaded that tt had con- tracted for an exhibition gamo and begged off. Wednesday night the commission, forcing the war, ordered the Yanks and the Boston Re |play there to-morrow. What hap- pened ts not made public, but enough ls known to believe that Col. Ruppert, declined politely and firmly to invade the Belgium of baseball at the order jot the supreme court of the game, ‘The International prepared to fight and # American League clubs refused to obey Johnson's command. The con- mission, in session at Pittsburgh, stil! | determined to fight and ordered the | Brooklyn National and Philadelphia Nationals to take the place of the Yanks and Red Sox and play Sunday, The gamo was advertised and the In- ternational, led by Joe Lannin and John H. Farrell, prepared to appeal to the law and stop the game, then appeal to the courts If necessary for redress, It looked to be a sad mess, Yesterday morning Presidents Ebb- ets of Brooklyn, Hempstead of t! fants and Ruppert of the Yanks held a series of conferences and Ebb- ets telegraphed the National Com- mission as follows: “In conference with Hempstead and Ruppert to-day. We deem It inad- viswble to play game at Harrison noxt unday ag advertised in to-day's rs, pending later consideration of « translated into pure mtr >» jump itn the n't make a goat out of baseball, me Jlake, you c our clut Plainly the National Commission ts lin an embarrassing fix and its next move will be awalted with Interest, This next move may reveal the mo |tive for the order to destroy the new | International League, which ha | ly a mystery, although the t in that it is due to personal feel- ling, especially upon the part of Mr, Johnson against Lannin and some sf the old Bed leaguers now inter- jested in the International, Tho stand of Mr. Wbbets ts espe Jelally pleasing and sportsamanitke since he had more to galn by playing at Harrison thangany of the ot! owners and probaMy needs patron |worse, He is very diplomatic and says ome of us do not agres on he question of territorial rights tn New Jersey, but we should not play until we have reached an agreement.” |>pv11e thinly vetled rebellion of the owners against the arbitrary orders of the commission brings up ugain the question of pressing neces ity for reform In that body, What r may be the qualifications sidents John major leagues a ner of th rman Herr f the 1 and jon is wrong. Johnson and | Herrmann are officials of interested | leagues, Herrmann the ostensitle wher of the Cinetanatt Club, All ar Inter te or less in each cane National Commission isn but it ts execu ve and a trative, It can pass a law, enfe it and then decide af peals against it for every ball club, ball player and owner in the land, It EDUCATIONAL, INSTRUCTION, &o | COMPLETE COURSE SHOP PRACTICE AN INDIVIDUAL +> Next Move of National Commission May Reveal Motive for Ordet to Destroy New International League by Scheduling Club Sox to) after conferring with the Boston club, | med to have won when tho| Weded. and will be OF 60 HOURS $ D_10 HOURS ROAD WORK MAJORS REFUSE TO INVADE OF BASEBALL” Sundays at Harrison, N. J. can oven pass laws (and has) to offenses already committed and these retroactive laws valid. It is a qemendous power to Jany three i As Judge Kenesa Mountain Landis remarked to m@ after the Federal League suit in Chie /caso, Me a 4 fortunate thing fo paseball that L was not forced make @ decision.” = 2 The Harrison case Dt subside, and the chance poy fh mission will grant a sanction to the new International, which opens it season May 8. If #0, baseball te an ugly war and the wings of commission are a bit singed, HREB glittering victories weal hung up by our clubs yester day, and the one that giittered most was that of the Yanks over Boston Red Sox, which req eleven innings of most strenuow! combat to accomplish, The Gantt kept right on, There is no news that, but It will be a big bit of when some team beats them. Bi lyn, led by tts new hero, Schi and the oldest hero of them all, J Soombs, beat the Phillies and gay the Giants more open water in ead, Tho gamo at the Polo Grounds veloped into a pitching duel bet Sim Love and Bush, in which ors were even, yet the Yanks overt powered the leaders by sheer jancy of defense. In the eighth | made one of his famous messes, |it required a magnificent throw | the plate by Mil which nipped | runner by ches, and a catch by Gilhooley up against stands, to save the day. In jtenth, with the two teams batt [tooth and nail for the victory, # double play shut Bodle off trom plate and Love at first base. was slowing down a trifle under thé steady and energetic attacks of Yank nd the end came su in the eleventh, when two wi sottiod the score and proved that Red Sox can be bea*en. | Yesterday the Red Sox bed a ter moving machine than it appear from paper. I am net convinced that Mofnnta can ird base in finished style, but nfess that ndies hit around the bag as cleverly aimost he did at first. Dave Shean, | weak spot of the infleld, will now when the pitching gets good, otherwise that team is very et in the attack, With the great pi ing the Ked Sox get at all th ‘os ts aot ag hard on th hers, and per! when the opponents hit the pitoh harder later in the geason McInnig will not look $0 good, | He ts holding tho gait thus far and Wasn't a blaol mark against his reco: yet, eo if nnot be luck. and won it because of muffe ta the Philly outfleld in the second and Schmandt’s hitting. Schmandt, @ transformed minor league first bases man, may develop Into a corking seo= ond baseman. He 1s improving steadily and his hitting ts great. Ha hit four balls very hard yesterday yt a single that nearly tore roft's leg off and @ triple out of it, The triple he hit woe off @ curve ball which broke beawtt and pped it against the I ntr 1 fence. 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