The Birmingham News from Birmingham, Alabama • 14

TH L' i Howard Opens Grid Season Here Friday tu Eft OWN, NEAL ft. O'HARA, FRANK MENKE, AL SPINK AND TAD. fciCE, UC.H FULLER UN, AU MUNROE LIAS, DEAN SNYDER. .1 namnoPEU'm LEAGUE STANDINGS KATIOSAL LEACUt. AMERICAN LEASUE.

WINDY CITY CLUB WINS FROM GIANTS Knoxvlll Blacks Dawned In Second Championship Game By Chicago Aggregation. sewell cutting as big swath lvwuu' WITH BAT AS wi TH SHORTSTOPPING 23 1 YEAR HERE II BAPTISTS 21 PP NEWMAN, Sports Editor. GEORGE REYNOLDS, Asst Ed. Tho Methodists have quite a number of veterans back the fold tills year, end Coach Brown has only one or two paramount weaknesses to worry about. The chief source of worry lies in the fact that the Panthers have little r-serve material to send In when they tackle aiich heavy elevens as Vanderbilt, Alabama and Auburn.

The second game on the schedule of the local eleven is with Coach Dan Me Gugins Commodores in Nashvllls Oct. 2, and Coach Charlie Brown, a former Commodore himself. Is anxious to make a good showing against Vandy. The Panthers will Journey to Nashville do termined to stage a hard fight against tho much more experienced eleven of MeGugtn, 'and will make every attempt to the score against them as low as possible. The Panthers have a strong lino with six veterans of last season back in their positions.

Slim Neese, guard; Shorty Propst and Cooper Green, tackles; Bob Rowe and Hoes Gandy, ends, and Dave Evans, center, were letter men of the 1913 campaign, and are back to form the nucleus of the line. Several good prep school recruits are filling In at the other forward positions. The offensive department has four varsity men of last season, one of whom was changed from a wing position to the backfield. Eddie Lewis, captain, and Jim Buty are the two veteran halfbacks upon whom will be placed the burden of the ranther attack, while Miller, end of last year, and Tanlac Burney-, the dimumtive quarterback, are two other old men in the backfield. The loss of Tink Gillarn and Buck Larson, of last season, will seriously PANTHERS MAKE READYFORGAME HAMILTON Gridiron Struggle Of The For Methodists Is For Saturday Birmingham Southern College on the eve of the Initial struggle of the season Hamilton Aggies Saturday Munger Field, stack up as contenders among I he colleges of the section.

Charlie Brown has been hard since the beginning season, and the plays' mighty good condition for the the 1320 campaign, veteran Panther mentor was to scrimmage the varsity anl a considerable lengtii of bowl Thursday afternoon as hard work-out before the first on the grid this year. The opponents are the Hamilton Aggies, and followers are anxious to get a line favorites in this first encounter. WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY NATIONAL LEAGUE. Boftoii tt Ihl)tdeirhlA. No other fiom echertnleri AMERICAN LEASUE.

CUctfo tt CleveltniL Louie at Detroit, FfcUstopfai tt Boetoa. Ko other ftmat poheduled. V.1 EDNES DAYS RESULTS NATIONAL LEAGUE. Ylmt Gun At VitUhurt (Adiu end Schmidt Cincinnati (Him. Luue ami Wmgo) Scoond IhUftburc (Ponder afid Haeffner 3 Cincinnati Heuther, Hint and 1 ft At Hrontia (Smith end Miller) 3 jo ncKUin Ollllnclm and 1 6 At Philadelphia (Cauaey and Trafewor) 3 ft St Lout (Lyons and IHU defer) 4 12 At Vew York (Itauftaa and Snyder) 7 li Chicago (Tyler.

Bailee, Martin and Farrell) 2 7 AMERICAN LEAGUE. No fanes achedu ed. handicap the offensive ability of the aggregation. Several other hacks are showing up well. Norton at quarter, Brinskelle and Griffin at half, and Staton at fullback are the newcomers with considerable promise.

7 jmiw1- f. Here's the Southern League shoHstop recruit who has hsd a big Job saddled on his shoulders and is getting away with It. He la Joe Sewell, who has got his chance in the big leagues before completing one full season In the minors. Note that he has wide-awake eyes and that he takes a cut at the ball which gets results. WITH First Season Scheduled HE Panthers, gridiron with the afternoon on fairly strong smaller Coach working his squad of the practice are in advent of The scheduled scrubs for turn-in Muncer the final argument Birmingham-Southern strong of the eleven on their f- IT dogs Are In Fair Shape For Their Initial Game On The Campus.

-p OWARD COLLEGU will open the p--I local football season Friday after- noon with Morgan School on the a upus st East Lake. The game was Kinally boohed for Saturday, but has h. moved forward one d.iv in order rut to conflict with the balloon raws, toward is meeting In Morgan an eleven y. to be well wortli wauliing among the prep schools. LiUie has been heard irun Morgan this season, and the BP-tt'-s have been preparing for the worst Vach Marshall has been putting bis claiges through stiff workouts every aUernoon this week.

The Warn is said io le in good shape for an opting one. A number of new faces wi.l be In Howards line-up Fndav. are un- Prospects for a good hack fold are in m-oallybright. Pcahtad alher who oiw-cted tbs attack last year, is stil missing but expected to report next Burney Acton, thesneednr vet Is the only man the baik field sure of his berth. Ian tray lord, who starred for Central High last Pall.

Risking ft etiong bid for a half vach. I osition. Toby Robinson, the wee lus quarter last year, is showing class scrimmages this year. Rot uson should easily make the vanutv. welder and McLane aie fighting it out for right half.

Both are good men and the player who can show the most s-uff in the Morgan game will more Ban likely land the regular berth. Fridays pame will start at 3.3n. ina campus can be reached by catching an East Lake car or Tidewater going east. Chicago Sox Will Work Lefty Kerr Against Bagby CLEVELAND, Sept. 23.

The Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox. pacemakers and runners-up, respectively In the American League pennant race, mot here today for the first of a tliree-pame series upon which it 1s believed the pennant depends. Cleveland was leading Chicago be one and a half games. If Cleveland takes two of the games, It is regarded as almost certain that the Indians linve the fiag won. They have onyl 11 more games to play three with Chicago, four wait St.

Louis and tour with Detroit. If they can win eight of these, the White Sox must win the eight games remaining on their schedule to tie the local team. Cleveland has won Its last seven games and Chicago its last six. Both teams benefited by a rest yesterday and entered todays contest In fine physical condition and confident of victory. Manager Gleason announced he would send Dick Kerr, a southnaw, to the pitching Korr has not worked nce Monthly, when he pitched three innings against the Philadelphia team.

Me lias won one game from Cle eland and lost one this season. 1 Jim Bagby, with a string of 23 vlc-turies to his credit this season, was slated -to do slab duty for CleviUnd. He has defeated Chit ago in three of Fosters Chicago Giants scored their soeond successive victory over the Knoxville Giants, colored champions of the South, out at Ricltwood Field Wednesday afternoon in a contest that was filled with errors by the Tennessee aggregation. The blacks from the Windy City outhit and outplayed their adversaries at every stage of the game and had the Knoxville club shutout until the final Inning, when three hits, eoupled with an Inexcusable miscue gave them three tallies. Lenme Williams was opposed on the mound by Tom Williams, and the latter had hie Southern opponent bested In keeping hie blngles scattered with men on the cushions, besides Tom was very effective with the willow and was Instrumental In driving In two of the runs which aided his victory.

Undoubtedly, the outstanding feature of the contest was the work of Maddox, the one-armed outfielder of the Knoxville club. Maddox accepted several difficult chances and handled himself as well as any of his teammates. The deciding games will be played this afternoon and Friday and the Knoxville management has secured the services of Roderiz, the Cuban wonder late of the Black Baron a to oppose the hard-hitting BY DEAN SNYDER. BUYING a ball player for his fielding abilities and finding that he is also a nifty slugger, is the luck of Tris Speaker. Ill his first few games as a regular aitll the Cleveland Indians Joe Sewell is cutting as big a swath with hi bat as he is with his shortstopping.

With almost uncanny foresight Speaker had already secured an option on the New Orhans piaver before the Ray Chapman tragedy. When the brilliant Cleveland shortstop was struck down Speaker paid the Pelican a neat sum for an Immediate delivery of the Dixie pastimer. First Fla.h, Pome youngsters play over their heads the first few wdks when they first come up to the big show, but if Sewell can keep on doing it for a few days more he may be the cog that will cause tlie American League cloth to fly from the Cleveland flagpole. The kid is slapping the Ban Johnson apple with as much confidence as he did tlie Ihxla pellets. Sewell a produce of the University of Alabama baseball team.

He is in the majors be fore completing his first full 5 ear in the minors. Dobbs Picked Him. Johnny Dobbs, of the New Orleans Pelicans from whom Ppeaker picked the peat by shortstop, sas that Sewell is the last plaer he ever sent up to the bif show and he is the geiW who gave both Jim Bagby and Del Iratt their firat p.uv-ports to the big -orchards. Dobbs was tipped oif to the fait that five games Sewell was a promising plnjer by Widd Preparations were made to take care McDowell, former manager of the one of the largest week day crowds 1 mingham City Lenirue The youth was Giants and It is confidently expected that Koderis will he returned a victor, Following Is the official tala of Wednesday's cuo test; CHICAGO WANTS KNOXVJJ.I Cl ANT. bra si.

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LTpim, Perkins and Klnft McComber Purchases Vanderbilt Stable PARIS, Sept. 23. The stable of the late K. Vanderbilt has been sold to A. K.

McComber, millionaire American horseman. It understood here. The price named Is 12,000,000 francs. The sale, the reports state, includes the contract of Jockey Frank ONeill, the complete stable of 38 brood marcs! four stallions, 32 yearlings, 20 foals and all horses In training, as well as the Polsey estate and the Deauville property. ''q good a A.

pair of flashy players on the university nine which he ourht to pet for the Tels. The other players name was Stephenson. Dobbs made a special trip to Birmingham and looked the lads over. As soon he set his eyes on them he opened up negotiations which resulted in his getting Sewell before the competition of Pt, Louis and Philadelphia major league snouts had blocked the deal. Speaker secured an option on the youngster while the Indians were trpn-ing at New Orleans last Spring, but had not intended to exercise it until this Fall.

Stephenson, who Is Sewell's pal, will get a trial with the Indians next year. Looks Good. Here's the way Dobbs desnnbcs the work of the youngster since he reported to him last April: Sewell into the game as soon as he reported and he didn't miss a day until we sent him to Cleveland. Very soon 1 made hira a lead-off man and I want to tell you that he is one of the beat lead-off batter I ever saw. 'lie is simply a marvel for a youngster.

He hasnt a single weakness other than one or two little things that only ran be overcome by experience, as, for instance, rot looking every tm to see whether the bail is in the air or on the ground. He has a baseball hekd And right now makes fewer mistakes than a great many good players who have been in tho rame a long time. The youngster is already receiving the plaudits of Cleveland fans and if the Indians crowd the Yanks and White Sox off the pennant gangplank the Dixie recruit will be the biggest hero in Ohio, regardless of who is elected to the White House chair. SCwell is a sweet kid, but he's got a big role to play. Still, he seems to have the stuff which wifi i make hash out of Gleason's and Huggins October hopes, i This tunc last jtar SowHl as star-rinff in the Atlanta-Birmincham Inter-City Series.

Fome Jump, bo! RUBE BENTON IS CHARGED WITH THROWING GAME Attorney Replogle Declares That The Last Worlds Series Was Not On Square. HICAGO. Srpt, 23 Organized lia-eliall's newest scandal, which fcinmiered and btibbled at the first session of the grain! jury investigation esterday, i expected to come to a boil today When J. C. -Rube Benton, pitcher of the New York Giants, appears to teetify.

The possibility of a number buing scalded is admittid by those conversant with the situation. Bi nton is expected to answer the charges made by Charles L. Buck" Herzog, second baseman of the Chicago tubs, that the Giants pitcher won bv betting on Cincinnati In the worlds sc ms 1913 after he had received a felon aphic tip from Ha! Chn-e. former (Hunts first baseman, that if id h' en "lived" for the Reds to win, Hinton is expected also to back up 4 chatges tint lin was offered J8Uf by lb rang to "throw' a game to the Cubs in fv fit ember of last ear Alfidav its arc in llersogs possession and have been made public, that Benton "scraped together all the money he could get'' and wagertd on Cincinnati in the last wnilds series. The affidavits were made bv Arthur Wilson, estrher.

and N. 1 Tonev" Tockol, third baseman, of the Ronton Bravo. Wilson and Rockcl allege that Benton. In a conversation In the Braddnrk Hole) In New York last April, tef la red ha had re-reived a telegram fiom Chase advising him to bet on Cincinnati to wm the firt two games lleizog declared he Ksd obtained the di positions from A d-on and Boerkel after Penton had (lunged Mm with of-fi-ring the piteher a luibe to "throw" a game to the Cubs "Buck" deelated he went to the pff'ee Iresldent John Hedvler. of the National League, when lie heard of Boutin's barges, and de-nsmled an invest ig lfinn Benton was railed In.

lb-mug ilia lared and reiterated h' chaise in the presence of President Uevdler After an Investigation If' dli'r gave Herzog a letter, the plav rr in whieh the load of the longue 1 vuressed hi belief that Herzog never bad bein involved In baseball gambling. The letter, lleizog ms. Is In his pos- se-sion, H. meg's ehirgis again-t Benton and Benton's elmrges Herzog me mil. one angle of the investigation the grand jurv has undertaken.

Assistant tie's Attorney Haivev Replogle. conducing the investigat.on. has made the public dial ration that "the last world's soi ivs wag not on the sipiure" and that "from five to seven pl.avurs on the White gox team are lnvohid." lteplegle's statement Is believed to bave been Inspired by testimony given before the giaml July bv Charles A. Comlnskey, president of the Hte Sox; Bail Johnson, piesident of the Ameuean League, and oilier who ap- poan ye-terdnv, Di tails of the testimony of those wlmosse have hot been made public. Both Johnson and Comis-key, liowevrr, are known to have made Investigation -when charges pf crookedness" followed tho, world series last fall.

A number of well known baseball men, paiei. mHiiageis and magnates, are, to appear before the grand I 1 1 I I nnein Joe Was Starring -Here This Time Last Year With McDowells Team. then playing on the varsity team at Tuscaloosa. Pal Is Star. Ward told Iobhs that he had seen a WORLDS MARK BROKEN IS PACE BY FRISCO JUNE Only Three Races On Thursdays Grand Circuit Program At Columbus.

OLVMUCS, Spt. 23 With the froe-of-nU pgee called off hicau.su i.il of the mines were unable (o start, only three races are on todays Grand Circuit program. The 2. IS trot, however, will probablv be split into two diMMons because of the lurge rnmbcr of entries, fuller events are the 2 oy pace and the 2 07 trot, each wifh a good field. A in worlds record for 3-veur-nM pacing tolls wax established her? Wednesday.

Frisco June, W. Flemings bay colt, stepped the third heat of the horse Keview Futurity in 03 1-3. Frisco June had dropped th first heat of the race to Tampsafe, who prior to sterriay had held jointly with Gen. Todd, tlie 3-year-old olt paring record Trainpsafe, however, was unable to Jstind tiie pace and loM the tdreteh in the last two heats Margaret Dillon won the Hartman Hotel btate for 2 11 las paceis. C.

A iIntine, after the mare had made bd bnaks in tlie find two hats, whs for Jatk Monroe, as driver. l'bthcr K. Murphv, entry, won the third and last luat of the 2 07 rl.uas pacing, ion lued fiom Tuesday. Sho had ul lakt two Inals The 2 15 tiot was won in straight in by iatrick Todd. Dar ester, ownd and driven bv Fleming, outeUssed the field in the first division of tiie 2.13 pace, winning In straight heats Lojal driven by Krskine had an c.sy time in tlie end ditision, win-' a similar mania r.

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in ihe history of baseball here. Reserved seats have been sold out for several days. Previous to todays game Cleveland had. won II of 13 gam-s. In which the two teams have met this year.

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Publishing Co. The Brw York Evening World. When the league season closes, the Philadelphia teams will be there at the finish. A successful ball season always makes Brooklyn a part of New York, Chicago may not land the pennant, but Ita had the best baseball scandal of the season. The way the Braves and Red Pox are waddling along.

the.y don seem to know that fighting is legal in Boston now. For Clncl fans the last three weeks are the hardest An optimist 13 a guy in PhiUdilphU that saves his ram chetks in the local stalwarts should wm the pennant. A World's Series In New York means 63 per cent to the winners, 40 per cent to the trailer and 200 per cent to the ticket scalpers. The Giants just failed to perform a spiracle. Thats what Fonzl did t-o.

When the percentde columns iom to ft halt the teams will look like the quartermaster's dcpai tuu nt. it now looks like Wilson, our middle-weight champion, is too proud to fight. TAGGING THE BASES TH REDS were ku-ki-d out of the raca lr si-ond 'davt- vilien the Ilratt-i twin, trimnui' 2 to it and 3 to I. THE GIANTS sun 7 to 3 fr mi the Cuds and new seem lertam to take plaeo money. LYONS, I Cardinal ro-ki held the Phillies safe and the Si.

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