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Monday, October 2, 191 SIX THE MUNCE. PRESS. mmm f-1 THE PRESS PAGE OF SPORT HARVARD'S BACKFIELD LOOKS WEAK IN SPITE OF INDIVIDUAL STARS' SPEED CHAFF TIE AFTERMATH tfeiffiiiri i fnn-ii In i i INTEREST nOW FASTENED I N. LEAGUE Fin.GE In spite of the fact that Horween, Flower, Bond and Casey hare shown Indiv.yal brilliance, the Harvard back has shown to date not quite the strength expected. The coaches are dissatisfied with the showing so far and are plugging hard to develop tetter team work.

Sunday's hej: fred Toney. Pitching for Cincinnati, he defeated the Pirates and elevated the Reds into a tie with the Cardinals In the National league. PBEPSITIB FDR EH AREELfiBORATE Rig Crowd Will Be Entertained at Indianapolis When I. U. Stars Clash With Tufts.

after you clean them. You will find, in all probability, an accumulation of tartar on the enamel and bits of food deposit hiding between the crevices. YOUR DENTIFRICE doeV not FULLY CLEAN! Loss oi teeth is caused usually by one of two decay, both of which develop, as a rule, only ta the mouth where germ-laden tartar is present EENRBCOl the recently dUcorered formula of a dental tpecWH to twofold h7ki.criM. Fint, it REALLY CLEANS, .1110047108 ijwcUlly pfepared, Soluble i dually effective in cleaning food deport Second, it IctUf-wJ! 4 V3tS-r Boston Wins American Flag Big Series in National Start Monday Afternoon. particularly destructive to the germ 01 ryonne.

F'" Itctly wf. containing neither iajurioua chemical nor hard gilt Avoid Pyorrhea and decay. Get 8enreeo from yoardealw today. In large tubea, 25a. Send 4c to Senreco, 304 Walnut Sueet, Cincinnati, Ohio, foe Uberal-aized trial package.

7 Schneider, another Cincinnati pitcher, took a championship for Cincinnati when he hit a ball father than any one else ever hit on the field. Catcher Brottcm of the Cardinals three times broke up attempts at double steals. The Indians knocked all the pennant aspiration out of the White Sox when they broke even with the Chi-cogoans in a double bill. By H. f.

HAMILTON. New York, Oct. 2. It Is up to John "PREPAREDNESS" Saa your dratut Iwio yearor Uaa SeoMCO twica duly The (Mifc ha REAIXY CLEANS McGraw, manager of the Giants today to determine the final standing of the Dodgers in the mad dash for the Na-tional league championship. With the Dodgers clinging to the Tris Speaker bagged a trio of hits out of seven times up.

Indianapolis, Oct 2. Never in the history of athletic evenlK in Indiana have such elaborate preparations been made a.s are well under way for the football game between Indiana university and Tufts a leadinK educational institution of Massachusetts 1 nthis city on October 28, at Washington park. It is expected that the game this year, a contest btween the west and the historic east, noted for strong gridiron teams, will surpass last year's game with Washington and Lee, which attracted almost nation be. o. mm i top by the bare margin of one point, les than half a game, Wllbert Robin three bases Eddie Collins stole In the second contest.

son sent his charges into the final series of the season this afternoon Two hits was all the White Sox could get in the first entertainment. wide attention and drew a record- against the Giants. If the McGraw-ites take two of the four games from the Dodgers and the Phllliee succeed in winning four from the Braves, the hopes of John McGraw's best friends in baseball wil lbe wrecked. McGraw, Charles H. Ebbets thought he would show what a fine fellow he was and gave a free exhibition of his baseball players in Brooklyn.

Very few fans were out. New Universities Dictionary COUPON MUNCIE EVENING PRESS. Coupons Secure the Dictionary A I SR faithful to the stern, business side of baseball, will have snatched the world's series from Wllbert Robinson, three times safely out of i the plate. Cobb hit five trips Ralph II of ween, Harvard halfback, kickioe from placement. Jill mm.

his former assistant. The Phillies, fresh from their tri rtfSS.M Dave Bancroft will watch the efforts from the bench this afternoon owing to an injured hip. umph in Brooklyn where they whip ley and Hale. STANDING OF LEAGUES ped the Dodgers two out of three games, will go into action against the BraveB this afternoon in Philadelphia. They will play a double header today BOSTON FA1S GLAMOR NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Present or mall to this paper three coupons like the above ninety-eight Cents to cover cost of breaking crowd. Tufts, more than twice as large as Washington and Lee, and with a faculty outnumbn-Ing that of the Indiana institution, will prove an unusually strong draw-tog card. Nine committees, numbering more than a hundred business and professional men of this city, are already engaged in perfecting arrangements to make the day a gala occasion, A statewide organization, headed by Charles A. Greatbouse, superintendent of public Instruction, with an I. I', representative from every county, has created unusual interest from one end of the stale to the other.

The game is part of the official program of the Btatae Teachers' association, in session during that week, and it is expected that a majority of the more than 12,000 teachers in attendance vill be at the game. In anticipation of the greatest crowd that ever at tended a college contest In the state, tickets will be placed on sale October 2 in the Alumni headquarters, 1016 Merchants Hank building. 'Tirst come, first served," is the policy of the committee and mail orders will receive prompt attention. How to Get It For lh Afsra Nominal Cott of Manafaetw mnd Dittriomtima 3T98ci and must finish the season by four 6 SROF SEATS more clashes with George Stalllngs' scrappers. If the Phillies can make NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Score- R. H. E. St. Louis 100 010 1003 10 0 Chicago 222 000 00 6 11 0 Steele, Ames, Williams and Snyder and Bratton; Perry and A.

Wilson. Score R. H. E. Pittsburg 000 000 0000 6 4 Cincinnati 003 000 10 4 8 0 Cooper and W.

Wagner; Toney and Huhn. a celan sweep of this seasies they will Won. host. Tct. Brooklyn 91 5n .607 Philadelphia 8ft 58 .605 Boston 84 CO .583 New York 85 65 .574 Chicago 67 86 .438 Pittsburg 65 .420 St.

Louis 60 92 .395 Cincinnati 60 93 .393 win the pennant without another Boston, Oct. 2. With no chance for rivals to kick his club out of the world's series, Joseph Lanning, presi JU A secure thisNEWauuSesdc MM. Dictionary bound in real ORDERS flexible leather, illustrated i WILL with full pages in color BE and duotone 1300 paces. FILLED thing to help them.

For, in that event, the Dodgers could not win even if they dropped the Giants in four straight Neither club was favored today in the laBt stetch of the race to Bee who will go into the world's aeries dent of the Boston Red Sox, champions of the American league, today began to give consideration to a barrel or so of applications for world's series seats. These applications have been flood ji AVEKH'AV LEAGUE. Won. Lost. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.

First R. H. B. ing the Boston office for more than Indianapolis ...200 000 030 5 7 7 Pet. .596 .578 .565 .513 a week but Lanning has steadfastly AH Dictionaries published previ- are out of date Boston 90 61 Chicago 89 65 Detroit 87 67 St.

Louis 79 7ft New York 77 74 Washington 76 74 Cleveland 77 77 Philadelphia 34 116 Columbus 402 100 31 11 12 2 Aldridge and Leary; Lingrel and Coleman. Second Game Score R. H. E. Indianapolis 000 010 001 7 1 .510 .507 .500 .225 against the Red Sox, for the Phillies are meeting one of the hardest nuts of either league in the Braves and the Dodgers must go Into their final series a team which has just established a new major league record in consecutive victories and which is conceded to be one of the geratest baseball machines ever pieced together.

The Red Sox are ready to rest on their oars and prime up for the world's title clash with the National league champions. They became the refused to consider a letter until the pennant was cinched. The Cleveland Indians went to the rescue of Lannlng's forces yesterday by knocking the White Sox out of a chance for the bunting and today they got busy. Already swamped with applications for seats, the office today was almost overwhelmed. HSTiTI OF FIRE PROOF PRINT AROUSES INTEREST Columbus 004 100 0 5 10 1 Called in eight, darkness.

AMERICAN Rhodes and Kelly; Davis and La- ASSOCIATION. Won. Lost. longe. Louisville ...101 The greatest crowds In the history First Game- Beautiful Bust and Should prs Pet.

.603 .572 .535 .522 .517 of the world's series contests are in Toledo 010 000 0001 9 0 Louisville 000 010 10 2 7 2 Indianapolis 95 Minneapolis 88 StTaul 86 Kansas City 86 1916 champions of the American league yesterday when Cleveland took Des Moines, Ort. 2. A demonstration of paint, said to make wood fire proof, was given here today by dicated in the applications. Braves Field, where Boston's share of the 66 71 76 79 81 86 90 110 games were staged a year ago has been re-engaged for the 1916 .477 .444 .330 Toledo 78 Columbus 71 Milwaukee 54 Adams and Wells! Luque and Wendell. Second Game Score R.

H.E. Toledo 010 10-2 7 0 Louisville 100 001 8 0 Pierce and Sweeney; James and one game of a double header from the White Sox. The Red Sox go into their closing series of the season today when they meet the Athletics and even If the Athletics should make a celan sweep of the series the Red Sox would still be champions. The national commission has announced a meeting for tomorrow to arrange a schedule for the coming world's series contests. The dragilnf weight of la unconflned biut utmtrhna th.

upportrnt nniecle. that the contour of the L3.m Ionr, prerent tin full but from WQLIS ravlnf the tppwmnr ef lab-a 'MUZ denier of 0'-rtr1r! muwlei and confine the nJllto.toUM.B,lr.pbilV'''b0U',W Thjrarethe dalntlnt end mott eerrtceebleraneente Imart-nable-come ell materlele end etylw: CriBk HoSk If. Bendean, etc. Boned Wuh WaKhn tSe rustle boniuf-pemlttun waahluf without raLoVau" Hare your deslf how 700 Blr Jol ie Braiwlenw if not ed. we will gladlir Mnd him.

prepaid. how BY THE INNING. INCIDENTALS mi W'lliams. First Game-Score R. H.

E. James W. Grimes, of Springtleld, the inventor of the paint, and his stepbrother. Dr. Charles D.

Rawson, of this city. Grimes said he had been experimenting on the paint for twenty-seven years. Coal tar forms the base of the paint, which is black. Grimes said he was now experimenting to sec if the paint could be made in different cor-ors. lie said the paint could be made at a cost of 17 to 23 cents a gallon.

Crimes also asserted that the paint was a great preservative. Grimes and bis brother are traveling throughout the country giving demonstrations of the paint. They AMERICAN LEAGUE. First Came Score R. E.

Chicago 000 000 0000 2 3 BENJAMIN JOHNES, (1 Warren Street, s. J. AM)KRS0X EAGLES M'lX FROM KOKOMO Indianapolis When the city council meets this evening it will consider the fixing of rates for the taxicabs of the city. Kansas City ....300 010 0026 9 3 Milwaukee 000 000 0000 5 2 Lathrop and Hargrave; Donovan and Stumpf. Second Game-Score R.

H. E. Kansas City 010 000 01 5 0 Milwaukee 000 000 00 3 0 (Called in seventh by agreement.) MAXWELLS BEAT COLUMIUS. 75 New Castle, Oct 2 The Max wells won their game against the Columbus, baseball nine, Sunday said they intended to manufacture the jsint themselves, but they have not decided where they would establish their plant. Anderson, Oct 2.

Before a crowd estimated at 3.200, the Anderson Eagles defeated the Kokomo Hed Sox, Sunday afternoon, by the score of 3 to 2. Cy Falkenburg, pitching for the Eagles, had sixteen strikeouts to his credit allowed six scattered hits. Score It. H. E.

Cleveland 000 010 01-2 5 0 Faber and Schalk; Coumbe and O'Neill. Second Game Score R. II. E. Chicago 22 201 100 8 14 3 Cleveland ooo 010 003 -4 9 2 Cott and Lapp, Schalk and Lynn-; Pcnner, Gould.

I Am bet Klepfer and Debarry and Daley. Detroit 000 100 002 3 13 2 StoLuis 200 103 00 6 5 1 James and Spencer; Plank and Hart- BlufTlon- Howard Wiesoliaupt and Mrs. K. Harsh, of this city, were members of a party of Christian Endeavor workers which left here today for a tour of the northern part of the state. They will visit Warsaw, Frankfort, Kenning and Hargrave; Moran and Dilhoefer.

Score, R. H. E. Minneapolis 000 000 0011 8 4 Columbia City and Galveston. Dr.

Rawson. who Is mentioned in the above article, is a near relative to Edward E. Ridgeway. 511 East Jackson street. Mr.

Ridgeway received word of the invention several days ago by letter from his relative. afternoon, in the first inning when, they plied tip four runs. Wachtel, pitching for New Castle, struck out fourteen men. Score R. H.

Columbus 000 001 0001 4 4 Maxwells 420 010 10 8 7 2 Hewes and Marrow; Wachtell and Mattern I Kokomo 002 000 0002 6 3 St. Paul 010 010 00 2 7 2 Ylngling and Owen; Nlchaus and Eagles 010 010 0013 5 3 MulUn and Watson; Falkenberg demons. and Nleuerkorn. SPORT t4 V1 Indianapolis A play based on the poem of Riley entitled "An Old Sweetheart of Mine" will open the week here this evening. Decatur John A.

M. Adair, Democratic candidate for governor, today started his tour of the Kighth dlrftrict. CHICAGO TO HUH SKRIKS. Chicago, Oct. 2 When Cleveland knocked out the While Sox from any chance of winning the American league pennant yesterday.

President Weeghman of the Cubs, immediately sent a challenge to Owner CorulsUey a Sport Snapshots Manager Fohl of the Cleveland In for a city series. It Is expected to Terre Haute Formal opening of the Boys' club will be held here this evening. hi? -'1 dians has Bent Pitcher Stanley start Wednesday. Coveleskie to his home in Pennsyl tK if iTi?" I Spectacled youths who aspire to ranked with niches in the hall of baseball fame! members of tho most President successful Toarney's vania and it ia not expected that ho Indianapolis -School No. 60, which need not count themselves unfit to i staff.

CARL MAYS MAY GET CHANCE THIS TIME will be back in harness this season. Overwork and spoil of Bickneas have put Coveleskie to the bad, and closed because of the polio epidemic, was reopened today. School 23, which clor.ed for the same reason, will be opened next Monday. figuring on next year, Fohl thought Have a ClearPips Drainagel Whin Using lha Herculis Drain Pips Solvint tyalter Adams, tho first baseman eecure-ri by the Brooklyn Dodgers from Winning, not be asked to report says and Mctkle on hand the Brooklyn club cannot use any more first uaclrM and Adorns will be sold. John Phhn, aleo secured from Winnipeg, was to have rfpe-rted for tryout tliis fall, but he brake a leg In trie Northern learue ps-at-season eerier and will be laid up the most of the winter.

Frank GilUooley of the Yankees, out since July 3, rejoined the Yankees Cleveland, coning from his home In Teledo. He will finish the final western trip with the Yanks and play If called upon. it advisable to give the youngster a rest. Franklin The ne wMasonlc home which will accommodate aliotit sev Captain Koonig eould learn a thing or two from Connie Mack, for when it comes to real submerging the Daut8chland is a bush league sinker In a class loague. Connie's boat, the McGillicnddy 13, has been submerged since last April.

If the Deutschland could submerge as completely and stay submerged as long as the McGillicuddy, and if the Mc-Glllicuddv had the Deutschland' enty-five children and as many adults, A scientifically nrenared conipotmo will soon lie opened. you cannot fall to clear any drain pipe stoppage not caused by Terre Haute The Slate Normal don diamond spangles. By blending natural ability witfi perseverance and dogged determination any boy may overcome this handicap and qualify io pitch in the major leagues. Lee Meadows is a shining example of what this combination may accomplish. Without this pitcher there's no telling Just where the St.

Louis Cardinals would be at present. Meadows first donned the "choe.tem" when five years of ago. Today, at twenty-two, he Is the star righthander of the Cardinals' slab corps, Bnd has worked this season in one-third of the contests played by Hug-gins' crew. Jesse Burkett, manager of the Lowell club of the Eastern league, is angry over whit ho calls a raw deal metal or other solid substances. To Fielder Jones has made a new record in baseball.

In seven games against the Chicago White Sox, the manager of the Browns started each contest with a left-hander. And twice Jones' theory that a southpaw could tame the Rowlands held good. However, right-handers might nave done a dingc-d sight worse did in fact when they relieved the school opened here today. prove this we extend a money-bar guarantee. If properly used.

Sold cs coming up apparatus the fans would tee a couple of submarines that arl cluslvoly by Frankfort Governor Samuel M. Ralston today addressed Democrats of this city. J. A. GALLIVAN 314-316 E.

Main St. Muncie, Cries of alarm went up in Chicago vrhen it was reported that Ray Schalk with a split finrer and Red submarines. President Frank Navin has prom-ised each plaver a 850 suit of clothes the day the Detroit team passes Bos- Indianapolis WIlllRm Miller, of Darlington, claims the belt for gross amount of money received for one load of hogs. For 959 hogs he received $23,204.50. given him several weeks ago by the directors of the Eastern league in Free Deliveries to all Turfs of CitJ NATIONAL FUEL CO.

1'hone 007. West Vn. Splint, $1.25 White Ash, Kentucky Block, Slack. $'V0. mm iWM Just for diversion George Sisler pitched a game for the St.

Louis ilrowna not long ago. Walter Johnson was his opponent. Sislcr, though it waa the first game he had pitched in two months or more, blanked the Washington team, though In ono inning they got the bases full with none out. Johnson pitched remarkable ball, but his team was halplesa before the Michigan Wonder. ion ana takes nrst place In the American league this season.

This ts the time of yar that nobby folks lay in their fall scenery, and the boyi are holding off on all purchases of thia sort. "Benny Kauff, the Ty Cobb of the Feda and the Plnar Bodls of the No dropping him, after he had become owner of the Lowell team, from the Kusaall with a turnl ankle might be ut for some time, but it developed that the injury of neither was eerl-eus. Amocc the numeveua new player reporting to the Cleveland club Is Jamfs Hasrey, formerly a pitcher on the Bethany College team, who hai been playing independent ball around Pittsburg, lie ia a rieht-hander. The St Louis Browns have on hand VOL SOX, Mgrs. 3 tional league," is Tho way an eastern critic refers to John McGraw's- per-formal.

Come to think of it Bannv Michigan City Two probable vic-tlnie of Diamond Dick novels are held in the city jail here as the result of their using a flash light at a collar window of a department store. They were discovered late at night by a patrolman flashing a light into tlie window and were arrested. Rochester Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Castleman, who had been married two hours, were killed when their buggy was run down by a switch engine at Knox.

FORWARD PASS BRINGS VICTORY TO AVONDALE circuit He produced document datod September 4, 1916, reading: "I have this day sold to Jesse Burkett of Worcester the Lowell baseball club for $500. He Is to assume all dobti after this date, and also all playert. (Signed) A. F. Roach." Burkett saye the sale of the club was completed September 4 and he is considering the matter of bringing suit against the Eastern league for its action in freezing him out After their pitching duel in Chicago on Labor day, Christy Mathew-son though he had beaten Miner Brown, declared it was the last time ho would go to the slab.

Manaerer The White Sox are noted for weird base running, no matter who is on the coaching lines. One day recent-ly Leopold, who was on first, tried to steal second, while Schalk was be-ing purposely passed. Here Is what the Sox did in ono inning of a game few days later: Got three tir.glee, two bases on balls and pulled a double steal end did not score a run new pitcher who ihould be quite an addition to the giant of the game after he pets his growth. So far he's eighteen years old and only a boy, but he stands six feet four inchos and weighs 203 pounds. Be bails from Austin College of Sherman, and v.hjn Charley Barrett dug him up last Jur.e he weighed 175 pounds.

Now, four months after, Veigha, as irtated, 08 pounds. At does remind one of Bodie in several ways. Four no-hit games have been pitched in the big leagues this year. Hughes of the Braves recorded the first one against Pittsburgh In Boston. Foster of the Red Sox, Bush of the Athletics and Leonard of the Red Sox followed with similar foats in the order named.

Foster and Leonard also pitcher their games in the Hub. Charles B. Durborow, tho long distance dimmer, recently for practice swamon down tho Del Indianapolis W. L. Taylor, attorney, forwarded $5,000 to his client, Mrs.

Sarah Grafton, of llloomington, whose husband, John B. Crafton, went down with the Titanic. The money was part payment of damages. Team work in staging the ever-noted forward pass brought victory the tune of 33 to 0, for the Avondiilt A. A.

football eleven Sunday afternoon when they met the Elwood city team at the Haughey gridiron, cornet of Fltih and Grant streets. A larff crowd witnessed the gamo, Longfellow, Rishor and Reasoner made touchdowns, while Mvers made one touch-back and kicked one goal. Longfe'-low's fifty-yard run featured the test. The Muncie team scored tneli points in tho last three periods play. Joe Tinker, however, believes, that because of foolish base running.

The Cloveland pitching staff certainly was lunch for the Tigers in their late meetings. In the last five games the two teams played Detroit scored forty-four runs, in spite of the fact that in ono gamo but two were tsrown is stUJ in his pnme, so they say, and thinks nerhans wtll win a pennant for the Cubs next year, or tiie year after. that rate he will make Jeff ieareau look like a pigmy when he goes to training camp in the rring. Trout IS evidently soma eaten for Fisherman barrett. He beat about everything worth while in Texas collegiate circlea last spring, averaging fifteen strikeout? to the game ana seldom yielding a hit.

He has had no professional experience but, with the eon1 dence oi youth, he arers he hat not seen anythin; In the American league so far that he's afraid of. flow cou)4 a puy of his sire bo afraid put over. And how the Tigers did In one game Heilman got five in Carl Mays. Carl Mays, the Boston Red So right-hander, was too young and in-ixperienced for work in the big eries last fall, but may have hit fhance this year. Mays has won good percentage of his games thia season and next to Babe Ruth has the test average of the Boston twirlera.

CONGKRVIT.LE EAGLES DEFEATED AT POKILWD The Congerville Eagles football team went down in defeat at Portland Sunday afternoon, 32 to 0. Although outweighed twenty-five pounds to the man, the Muncie boys played a strong game. Each member of the Muncie team Is requested to report for practice at the Garfield school, Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings. The White City baseball nine close lis 1916 season, Sunday, by defcatml the Parker Cltv team 11 to 6 Tin Don Struthers. for two seasons umpire in the "Three league, is a candidate for a berth in the National league next season, and has excellent prospects for appointment He had the distinction of going through the recent season without any serious conflict with players or patrons arid from Riverton, N.

where he resides, to Tacony and back again to Bristol, a distance of seventeen miles In 5:42. Charley Brickley is coaching the Harvard kicker and Johnny Evere has taken the Braves' kicker In hand agai" nve umes up. in me nnai game ly Cobb got four, two of them being homers. Veach also got four in five in the final game. Detroit needed all the fames it won to get an ever break ca the season with Cleveland.

game was played on the Seiroa oi- mond before a large crowd, 1 of anytmugT nineteen ramni nluvnil ti.io If 1.1 IU Jiuncie boys lost only thre..

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