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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 10, 192f. Comers . Virtually Cinch Rag; Sisler Seeks ' Batting Crown WEBBER UNABLE TO GO THE ROUTE V; 'cakened in Last Innings permitting Columbia to Win the Second. i. ' 1: ' 1 t f f ' t V 1 1-" f : l:mbia. S. C, Sept. 10. Webber ..kenpil in the seventh and eighth in :s Friday and Columbia made it , . ;n a row from the tail-end Hor . f. by the score of 7 to 2. fr.rk worked his last game on the --d for the locals before leaving to U-.o Washington. American League, v and, while he was touched u, ;.,r lively, he tightened in the .i.rs. turning: the Bees offensive at i:s to left-on-bases. ;';(. hitting of Pemit and Briber:'! N lily's fielding featured. . r,".mell singled with one out in '.Hi. Williams lifted to Tavener. : k tripled to right, scoring O'Con Knnody walked and took secor.l a short passed ball. Higgins roTl- fawner. .:h one out in the fourth, Perritt : ;, a two-base wild throw of Wob- i . s roller. Miller rolled to Lacy audi ' , : brr ran to third. O'Connell single! 1 V.a-'d. i i til the seventh inning, the cha-r.- had reached ebber for only five m live different innings. Wirh out in the seventh, Tavener tripled' Iff:. Kuhn missed a third strike mbach doubled to the " centerfield e. scoring Tavener. Turk singled ris fit. scoring Steinbach. O'Con c. light Nally's fly. I'cissmier opened the eighth with a to center and took second when ball rolled through Miller. Lacy .od to Webber, who threw, to third late to get Weissmeir. Goslin sin a to right, scoring Weissmeir and ring Lacy to third. Perritt tripled center, scoring Lacy and Goslin. ritt scored on a wild pitch. Tavener :r..led to Williams and Kuhn filed Ferry. Steinbach doubled to oen and scored on Turk's single. Nally d to Kirke. Pemnant Virtually Cmched By Comers Greenville, 8. C, Sept. 10. With the season's finish of the South At lantic (Class D) Baseball Association two weeks off, Columbia, S. C, by winning yesterday, virtually cinched the pennant for the third consecu tive year. The champions, managed by Zinn Beck, former major league inQelder, are fourteen games ahead of Charleston, the nearest rival, and have fourteen more games to play. Four members of the Columbia team, Outfielder Goslin, Shortstop Taven er and Pitchers Proctor and Turk, are to be delivered to big league clubs at the dose of this season, and negotiations are undtr way for the sale of two other Columbians. Charleston has a lead of six games over treenville for second place, while only a half game separates Greenville and Augusta, Ga., for tnird honors. Charlotte. X. C. and Snartanburg. S. C, are staging a close race for the cellar. CHARLOTTE: ..:air.s. t eek. (I I i wa-.i o lb c . if . TV rf AB . .5 . . 5 . .5 . . 5 . .4 . .4 . .4 . .4 . .4 H PO 1 2 2 6 1 1 3 H 1 2 YANKEES GAINED ON SPEAKERITES Babe Ruth Equals Record by Slamming Out His 54th Circuit Trip. AMERICAN LEAGUE. TWO NEAR RIOTS AT CHARLESTON Clauser Attacks Umpire j While Fans Threaten to A Start Own Rally. Charleston, S. C, Sept. 10. Th? world-wide spirit of unrest manifested itself here Friday afternoon in the sixth inning of a double-header be tween Charleston and Greenville, which was halved, when Shortstop i Clauser, of the Charleston club, rushed in from his position and, without warning, as saulted Umpire Perry Lipe, the blow staa-eerinar the umpire and cutting a gash over his left eye Fans and play ers of the two teams rushed on the playing field, which the police had some difficulty in clearing. Between the games, there was more excitement when President Walsh went to the dressing room of the um pires and instructed them not to al low Clauser to nlav in the second game. An argument arose between Mr. Val3h and Sam Berlin, president of the Pais, and almost resulted in a small no The nolice. however, saved the day aeain. The Sninners won the first game by battins- Townsend about the lot. With two down in the ninth. Von Kolnitz parked one in the street for his thlr- . . f i , T" teenth nome run 01 me season inro wns S to 1. In the second game, Cheney cashed in tt. 4-t-0 victory over Mott, a rookie. the latter going to pieces in the. final two innings. uaricness enaeu game in the fifth. KAISER WILHELM IS BIG LEAGUE PILOT CLUB STANDINGS. the Club , Won IjOSZ Pet. New York S3 49 .629 Cleveland 82 51 .617 St. Louis TO 65 .519 Washington 65 69 .489 Boston 63 66 .489 Detroit .. 64 73 .467 Chicago' . . 57 77 426 Athletics :.47 S2 -364 Tot. ils . ColuniMu: .40 2 12 24 11 AB R H PO A rf . a .4 .3 .4 .4 .4 .4 . .4 , .4 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 12 4 0 TODAY'S SCHEDULE. Cleveland at St. Louis. New York at Philadelphia. Boston at Washington. Detroit at Chicago. Greenville Buckley, If . Crouch, lb . . Page, cf . . Bankston, rf Wagner. 2b . Wendell, c . . Grubb, 3b . . Koval, ss . . Herl, p . . Totals . . . Charleston Bridwell, 2b McCormick. Felif, If 3b A'on Kolnitz Swacina, lb Moore, rf, Claser, ss AB RiHiPo A E .5 .4 .4 .5 .5 .4 .3 .3 .4 1 1 3 15 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 2 0 2 0 7 0 ( .37 8 11 27 18 1 AB RHPoAE Irving -Kaiser" Wilhelm as he appeared when pitching for Brooklyn 11 years ago. Irvinsr Wilhelm, who was one of the pitching stars of the bi? leagues a dozen years ago, is the new manager of the Phillies, named i to succeed Bill Donovan. Wilhelm, known then as "Kaiser, was a great spitball artist and succeeded Elmer Stricklett as the star twirler of the Brooklyn National League club. He was trainer and coach of the team when named tp fill Wild Bilf s shoes. 1 Winners inVirginia Are Hard to Choose Norfolk, Va., Sept. 10. President V. B. Bradley, of the Virginia League, announced Friday night h would be compelled to forfeit ail games won by Wilson, present league leader, from July 4 to July 23, under the ruling of Judge Kens saw L Landis, Baseball Comm's sioner, throwing out the standings of Rocky Mount and Wilson, league leader and runner-up, respectively in the first half of the season and awarding the championship for tart first half to Portsmouth. Judge Landis, acting upon pro tests filed by Portsmouth and New port News, declared that Rocky Mount and Wilson were paying in excess of the league salary limit f." players in the first half and thereby forfeited their right to their- stand ings. Wilson played up until July 23 in the second half of the season before cutting salaries to the limit. When President Bradley forfeiis the games won by Wilson in fh early part of the second half, Wil son will fall probably into thud nlace. behind Portsmouth and Nor folk, putting the former team in the lead. SCOTT GIVES UP JUST TWO HITS Giants Gain on Pirates by Trimming Dodgers as Pittsburg Loses. CLUB STANDINGS. Murphy, c 3 . . 2b .. (:?.::. cf rt-ltt . 3b . iTavener, K'.:hn. lb . Stoinhack. c Urk. p Totals 36 7 13 27 12 1 CHARLOTTE 100 100 0002 Columbuia 000 000 25x 7 ? Sacrifice hit Lacy. Two-base hits Killer. Kennedy. Perritt, Lacy Tavener, ' F.einback, 2). Three-base hits Dribeck Ferritt. First on balls Turk (1). Struck cut Turk 4; Webbers 2 C harlotte 13: Columbia 6. Passed ball S:einback. Wild pitch Webber. Double .p;av Kirke to Williams t5 Bribeck. Vlime 1:2S. Umpires Morgan and Turn 'pr. YANKS PLASTERED ATHLETICS Philadelphia, Sept. 10. Babe Ruth his world's record of 54 home runs Friday and helped New York administed a 14 to 5 deffot to Philadelphia. There were three other home runs made in the game Tillie Walker had two and Pipp the other New York 000 652 00114 16 0 Philadelphia 000 103 010 5 15 3 Shawkey and Schang; Naylor, Free man, Keefe and Myatt. , 4 0 1 2 4 0 cf 3 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 ss-3b ....4 1 1 1 3 0 , 4 0 0 12 0 0 f 3 0 12 0 0 2 0 1 2 2 0 10 0 10 0 3 0 0 5 1 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE RECORDS Chicago, Sept. 10. A new American Leaeue recorcf for total runs and total Left on base I hits were established Friday in the game between Detroit and Chicago, when Jo runs were scored and 42 hits made. The came was a slugging match. Chicago HOW THEY BAT out-hitting 15. Detroit . . Chicago Detroit, and winning 20 to . . .204 511 20015 20 4 ..57 77 .426 Totals 31 1 5 27 12 0 Cnrillo 100 121 1028 Charleston 000 000 001 1 Two base hit Crouch- Home run Von Kolnitz. First on balls Hehl 1; Townsend 2. Struck out Hehl 3; Town send 3. Sacrifice hit Page. Stolen bases Greenville 6; Charleston 4. Wild Townsend 2. Batter hit Koval Time 147. Umpires Lipe and Schaeffer- ABRHPoAE THIS TIME LAST YEAR. Brooklyn defeated the Cards twice and increased their lead. The Braves beat the Reds in a doubleheader. Cleveland announced that a me morial would be erected for Ray Chapman. Greenville . . . Buckley, If . . . Crouch, lb . . . Page, cf . . Bankston, rf . Wagner, 2b . . . Wendell, c . . . Grubb. 3b Koval, ss . . . Mott, p Totals . . . . . Charleston . . Bridwell, 2b . . McCormick cf . Felix, 3b .3 .1 .1 .2 2 .2 . .2 '.'.2 .10 0 0 0 .16 1 3 15 .AB R II Po ..3 ..3 . .3 Leonard." Ho'liings.' Mi'ddleton, Oldham j Von Kolnitz ss 3 ,i urEL.ii" Pctinw k'prr. Hodse and hwacina, id o (l 1 1 1 1 LH.-.?H L , . Vi-iivi , - - - - o- - j iees, laryan. Player , Bribeck . . s Frazier t Urban . . -. T'tt .. .. Kirke . . Ulidkiff .. Williams. . ! O'Connell I Kennedy . Iliigpins . . Ferry H.irris . . Webber . . V. 'right -. Allen .. . Satchel . . G AB 24 S5 2 3 .111 29 . 36 12 4S 183 6S 6 .2S 0 12 57 21 4 0 R II TB SB Pa 11 32 47 1 .363 0 110 .333 30 60 85 8 .323 17 2 56 0 .326 69 126 179 12 1301 35 63 83 4 .291 63 134 184 16 .285 66 117 168 19 .280 37 81 137 16 .267 5 16 .19 2 .235 14 29 34 1 .232 20 42 5S 3 .230 3 2 5 0 .167 5 7 7 0 .123 2 2 2 0 .095 0 0 0 0 .000 1 0 0 0 .000 SENATORS ARE PURSUED Washington. Sept. 10. Boston attain ed practically. a tie with Washington for fourth place by defeating the locals Fri day five to 1. Boston 000 040 luo o a e. Washington .. ..000 100 0001 10 2 Jones and Ruel; Mogridge, Erickson, Acosta and Picnich- Moore. If . Allison, rf . . Marshall, c Cheney, p . 0 1 o 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 9 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 01 0 1 4 A 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 E 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. CLUB STANDINGS Columbia . . . . Charleston . . . Greenville Augusta . . Spartanburg . CHARLOTTD 15 8 HORNET PITCHING r'.r.s b ei- "is IP R H W L T Pc. . .. 128 78 146 8 6 0 .571 1S5 SS 163 8 9 1 -470 89 59 94 5 6 1 .455 51 31 50 2 4 0 .333 33 20 27 1 2 0 .333 . 11 9 15 0 0 0 .000 4 8 9 0 1 0 .000 ORANGE SWEATER IS BEST FOR FOOTBALL T"r'rf,r:a. Til., Sept. 10. Orange is r:t color for a football jersey, .. r..r-hologist assisting the Unive v -jf Illinois eleven nas decided, ana r- ditir.nal blue sweater of the will be discarded this fall. "In a football game, the men on th.2 arc. are playing against a dirty : rv.!wnish background furnished oy i-- pridiron and the grandstands," Dr. . R. Griffith, of the department of --hologv, advised Coach Zuppke. "Ic desirable, that a color be chosen to -fid out against this background.' :. riffith teaches a course in the . -Tsity's coaching school dealing hology as applied to athletic coaches. COUNTY LEAGUE GAME POSTPONED BYDELUGE At St. Louis-Cleveland, rain. MOODYAND HILTON ARE TO DO HURLING Joe Moody and Lefty Hilton are said to be in prime condition for the hurl ing efforts this afternoon in the deciJ in? came of the City League pennant chase to be played at Wearn Field at 4 o'clock between Polarines and Chad wick -Hoskins. which teams are tied far I the honors on the eve of the season 3 Asbestos affair with 14 wins against 5 losses. -UnrVi interest attaches to the con test and arrangements have been made to handle a capacity crowd. POLO CHAMPIONSHIP COMPETITION BEGINS Philadelphia, Sept. 10. The Meadow brook Fox Hunters and the army first team were to meet at the Philadelphia fnnntrv Club today in the opening match for the junior polo championship of the United States. Four otner leam-s, the Meadowbrook wanderers, rmimwi- nhia rmmtrv Club. Army second team -ar-vr, Mawr nrft entered in tha innlor event, the final match of which riii Ho nlnved next Friday. It is opon to fours whose aggregate handicap does not exceed 20 goals. GREENVILLE RELEASES TWO Greenville, S. C Sept. iu -i-ncner Sain Crews Friday night was given his "utrigh: reiser T he r.repnville Baseball Association as was Catcher Kmer&on Cashion, who is ihe property of the New York Americana. Pitcher Mott, a semi-pro, of Sen. -a. Ala., will finish the season wi-h Creenville. ARRESTS IN ROBBERY OF GREENVILLE STORE Totals 20 4 Called fifth, darkness. Greenville 010 001 Charleston Thre base hit Marshall. iirst on balls Chenev 1. Struck out Cheney 4. feac- rifice hits Crouch, Grubb. Stolen base Swacina, Marshall, Allison, McCormicK Left on base Greenville 3; Charleston 6. AVild pitch Mott. Time 1:12. Umpires Lipe and Schaeffer. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. At Columbus 4; Indianapolis 2. At St. Paul 1-2: Kansas City 12 At Toledo 18; Louisville 3. At Minneapolis 6; Milwaukee 5. PEBBLES BESTED IN TWIN-HEADER Dutch Bernsen Sets Home Run Record, Running His Total to 20. - CLUB STANDINGS Won l-ost iPet ..87 44 .664 ..73 58 .557 ..67 65 .507 ..65 64 .504 ..52 SI .391 . .48 82 .369 SPARTS FIELDED IN POORFASHION Augusta Evened the Series Count by Winning the Second Game, 6-5. Spartanburg, S. C, Sept. 10. Spar tanburg fielded miserably Friday, en abling Augusta to even the series count by winning 6 to 5. Stone, on the mound for the visitors, weakened in the final innings, but the Tygers had amassed a sufficient lead. Drake, Spartanburg boy, was sent to the hurling hill by Manager Kelly and would have gotten away with a win had his support been even fair. Drake has just returned to his homa here after a successful season in the Florida State League. Pittsburgh St. Louis Boston . . Brooklyn Cincinnati Chicago . . Phill5.es . . won. rost. Pet. ..83 54 .606 ..80 52 -606 . .75 60 .555 ..73 61 .544 ...69 65 .SIT- ..61 74 .452 . .53 81 .39'! ..46 92 .333 TODAY'S SCHEDULE St. Louis at Cincinnati Philadelphia at Boston. Chicago at Pittsburgh. Brooklyn at New York. SCOTT IN RARE FORM Boston. Sept. 10. Scott held Phila delohia to two hits Friday, Boston win ning 2 to nothing. No visitors reached .. . .000 00D 000 0 2 2 Boston 000 001 lOx 2, 8 0 Eetts and Peter S"tt and Gil son. RESULT'S YESTERDAY Spartanburg 5; Augusta 6. Charleston 1-4; Greenville V-L Columbia 7; CHARLOTTE 2. TODAY'S SCHEDULE CHARLOTTE at Columbia. Greenville at Charleston. Augusta at Spartanburg.' WESTALL MEETS CAMP IN FINALS Florida State Champion De feated by West all in the Semi-Finals. Ashfeville, Sept. 10. Kenry West all, of this city, and Jack Camp, of Ocala, Fla., meet on the links of the Ashevillc Country clug today to decide the championship of fie golf tourney which has been uii'!';r way here since Wednesday. There will be two rounds of Vi holes each. A. C. Ulmtr, Florida state cham pion, was defeated in Friday's play by Westall one up. C n.:p v.vn over his brother, Clarence, and, in th-i semi-finals, over Victor Smith, of Atlanta, two up More than 160 entries for the tourney were made and the play is drawing large galleries ui ,-i -count of the number of crack players en tered. Finals in seven ither flights and in seven consolations will also are being played today. Augusta Trefry, If .. . Nolan, ss . . . Strand, 3b . . . Huhn, lb . . . Davis, rf . . Walsh, 2b .. . Ramsey, cf . . . Agnew, c . . . Stone, p Totals . . Spartanburg: Marlette, 3b . , Braun, 2b . . . Kolseth, lb . . Sikes, If . . . Folmar, rf . . , Menzel, cf . . . Achinger, ss . . Witrj', c . . . Drake, p . . Benton, a . . . . AB R H TO .4 . .5 . .2 . .5 . .5 O . o . .4 . .4 . .3 0 1 1 2 0 2 2 2 1 1 1 0 14 0 4 0 7 0 GIANTS DEFEAT BROOKLYN New York, Sept. 10. New York bunched hits on Cadore and Ructher and defeated Brooklyn Friday, 6 to 2. Toney kept Brooklyn's hits wt'l scat tered. Brooklyn 010 001 0002 9 1 New York 200 010 30x 6 9 3 Cadore, Ruether and Kreugcr; Toney and Snyder. .35 6 11 27 17 0 AB R H PO A E .5 .3 .4 .3 .3 .4 .4 .3 .3 , .1 1 0 1. 3 3 13 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 7 2 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 PIRATES LOSE TO CCDS Pittsburgh, Sept. 10. Hard and time ly hitting by Chicago enabled Chicago to win Firdav's game 8 to 5. Chicago 400 012 1003 13 0 Pittsburgh 'M 000 0015 13 1 Freeman, Jones, Alexander md Daly; Cooper, Adams, Bi&bee and Brottem, Gooch- Totals 33 5 9 27 16 2 (a) Hit for Drake in ninth. Augusta .. .. 120 010 1106 Spartanburg 000 200 1025 Two-base hits Kolaeth, Achinger, Walsh, Braun. Three-bpse hits htrana, Agnew, Marlette. Stolen base Menzell. Base on balls Stone. 4; Drake 3. Double pays Braun to Koleth; Nolan to Walsh to Huhn. Sacrifice hits Strand 2; Stone 1. Time 1:45. Umpires Johnson and Hoey. PEACH DEFEATED BY A YOUNGSTER Rapid-Fire Eliminations Marked Friday's Play for Tennis Title. REDLEGS BEAT CARDINALS Cincinnati, Sept. 10. Pfeifr was tat ted out of the box in the sixth inni.ig Friday and Cincinnati won a lop-sided game from St. Louis by a score cf 10 to 3. St. Louis 000 020 100 S 8 3 Cincinnati 030 016 OOx 10 13 0 Pfeffer, North and Ainsmith, Dilnoe- fer; Luque and Hargrave. Piedmont League PIEDMONT LEAGUE High Point . . Raleigh . . Winston-Salem Greensboro .. I Durham . . . Danville . . Won. Lost Pet. .. ..37 21 .638 33 35 .569 .. ..31 27 .534 .. ..26 32 .44S .. ..25 32 .439 ... "21 ?6 .266 GREAT RACE FOR BATTINGH0N0RS Four Sluggers Fight for Lead in American With Sisler Fighting. Chicago, Sept. 10. With more than 1 three weeks of the 1921 major league season remaining. Babe Ruth has equal led his 1920 home , run record, having scored six in the past ten days, ant bids fair to set a new world's record for circuit drives. Ruth's 54th horrer was scored off Naylor, of the Athletics, yesterday with one man on base, ilia last three home runs in 1920 were also l off Philadelphia pitchers, the 54th of , . : o n last season cuiiuiib vu ocjjieinuei 7. Th big southpawr slugger also in creased his total base record, to 393, the result of 176 hits. Besides his homers, he has made 39 doubles and 12 triples. A quartet of Americau League sluggers are staging one of tie greatest batting races since that years ago, when Napoleon Lajoie, of Cleve land, and Ty Cobb, of the Tigers, fought it out for the league leadership, with only a fraction of a point sep arating them at the end of th sea son. Harry Hellmann and Ty Cobb, tb Detroit stars, are holding nrst ana sec ond positions as the final stretch ia started, with George Sisler, the fct. Louis idol and last year's champion, putting on an attack which has carried him into fourth place aneaa oi ins Speaker, leader of the world's cham pions, and which threatens to car-y him to the top again. During the past two weeKS, tsisier has hit for an average of just below 500, having cracked out 32 hits in GS times at bat. He is four points behind Babe Ruth, of the Yankees, who is at third place. Heilmann's average Is .403 with Cobb trailing with .390. Ruth is smashing the ball for a marK oi .dsrf. while Sisler is hitting .379. Speaker, who was tied with the St. Louis star a week ago, is fifth with .369. S. Harris, of Washington, Dy steal ing one base, has brought his recoi-1 for the season to 26 thefts. Other leading batters: Tobin. St. Louis, .361; Jacobson, St. Louis, .344. HORNSBY FAR AHEAD." Rogers Hornsby, the St. Louis star, who last year led the National League in batting with an average of .370 ior the year, promises to repeat this sea- I son. He is the only regular in the league hitting above the .400 mark, his latest average showing him travel ing at a .406 clip. George Cutshaw, tne veteran oeconu sacker of. the Pirates, is Mornsby a closest rival with an average or .3ft, while Walton Cruise, of Boston. Is two points behind the Pittsburg star with an average of .348. Jack Fournier. an other Cardinal, paced ii.a. itousn, oi Cincinnati, who topped the National batters in 1918 and 1919 They are hit ting .347. A , x Hornsby is safely out in front m to tal bases, his 210 hits giving him a total of 333 bases, his hits include 20 homers, the latter being just two be hind George Kelly of the Giants, who is leading with 22. Frank Frisch, of the Giants, adfleJ four bases to his string of stolen bases and is showing the way to the base stealers with 47 thefts. Other leading batters: McHenry, St. Louis, .344; Mann. St. Louis, .34L KIRKE DETHRONES BUTLER. Jay Kirke, of Louisville, dethroned Art Butler, of Kansas City, for the leadership of the American Association and is topping the batters with an aver age of .384. Butler is the runner-up with .381 while Reb Russell, the Minneapolis slugger, is in third por tion with .379. Bunny Brief, of Kan sas City, leads with 35 home runs. Reb Russell is Brief's closest rival for homa run honors, having smashed out 29. Other leading batters: Good, Kansas City, .366; Fisher, Minneapolis, .858. BOONE HAS IT WON. With the Southern Association clos ing September 17, Boone, of New Or leans, is safely entrenched lij first place with an average of .391. Polly McLarry, of Memphis, Is trail ing with .356 but Gritfnh, another NW Orleans candidate, is pushing him with an average of .353. Bernsen, of Birmingham, has brought his home-run total up to 20. Stewart, of Birmingham, sto.le nine bases in tha past week and is setting tne pace, ior the base stealers with 58 thefts. Other leading batters: Bogart, Nsw Orleans. .344; Stelbauer, XMasnviue, r840; Burke, Nashville, .4u; camp, Memphis, .338. TODAY'S SCHEDULE. Durham at Danville. High Point at Greensboro. Raleigh at Winston. New Orleans Birmingham Atlanta . Little Rock Nashville . . Mobile . . . Chattanooga 'Vron. Lost. Pet. , 96 46 .675 93 54 .633 87 59 .596 70 72 .493 .... . .69 72 -490 58 85 .406 52 89 .369 50 96 .342 TODAY'S SCHEDULE Mobile at Atlanta. Little Rock at Birmingham. New Orleans at Chattanooga. Nashville at Mmephia sin cancelled all arrangements mads .. . -a iU n iooifsville for the playing oi iu .,, c ent. 10 Seventeen County League contest in the Greem lie, S. C.. bept. lu '.... nlav-off. scheduled for Frl- nours, rnh. nuui""" ... tonn . - rl "ille's baseball history was on i b? enioon. Tne largest ciuwu - Vlo vaino of about S900, m nr IT-,, lit-nor nf Atlanta, ana r3. ? . jt -.i- tnnn nntlents at announcement has as yet oeen , a ofoa T,,hUo Health Ser- ir, the nlace and date for the tne umit "ir. " ;tod v.v ff. which is the third and dec d-; vice hn.fP"ari-afternoon hetween Huntersville, winner city IPJfKjIZ -: first half season, and Cornelius, ice two men, and - r,f the second half season, eacn uun r"i;n made a full confes : .--liT-Hdy hnving won one game "i r-ason pla5r-off. arrested by The po- the loot In tne declared the men made a sion of the robbery. I EQUIPMENT FOR EVERY SPORT ICYCLES Received a shipment of $50.00 bicycles with G. & JSd P.r.kr., Mud Guards, Rubber Pedals, Troxel Saddle, Roller cnain a Stand. We are selling them at $35.00. . . itv. have tne uest uu- Remember, too, that we if. lyers Hardware & Sporting Goods Co. Kast Trade St. A. L. FALL, Manager Phone 902 BERNSEN SETS NEW RECORD Birmingham, Sept. 10. Birmingham defeated Little Rock in both games of Friday's double-header by scores of 7 to 2 and 2 to nothing. rmtrh Rernsen broke the Southern League record for home runs in a sin gle season, when he clouted a home run in each game, brining his total to 20, one above the old league record made last year by "Bing" Miller, of Little f'Attt Rock 000 000 0022 4 1 Birmingham . . . . 100 001 32x 7 11 0 Fields and Wallace; Morrison and Brandon. Little Rock 000 000 00 2 1 Birmingham .. .. .-000 200 x 2 3 1 Seven .innings by agreement. Clary and Harper; Wheeler and Brandon- MOBILE DEFEATS ATLANTA Atlanta. Sent., 10. Mobile defeated At lanta Friday 4 to 2. Mobile 102 100 0004 9 1 Atlanta 000 200 000-2 7 1 Roberts and Schulte; Suggs and Schmidt. ' DIVIDED DOUBLE:HEADER Chattanooga. Sept. 10. New Orleans and Chattanooga divided a double-head- he. irridav. the visitors winning the first game 3 to 2 but losing the sec ond 5 to 1 in five innings. New Orleans . . . . 100 101 000-3 Chattanooga .. .-002 000 000-2 Matteson and Deberry; Morris Graham. New Orleans 000 10-1 Five innings, Egreen. -Martina and Meyers; Wmgfield and Neidekorn- . PAT WINSTON WINNER IN TKNNIS" TOURNEY Greensboro, Sept. 10. The third an nual tournament of the North Carolina Tennis Association came to an end nere Friday afternoon with Mrs. Reuben Rob ertson, of Asheville. and Dr. Plat Win ston, of Chapel Hill, probably the out standing stars of the tournament. The playing of the men's doubles fi nals, "proved the most exciting match of the day, when Herman Cone ..nd 3ruce McCaulcv, of Greensboro, battled Dr. Winston and Lenoir Chambers for five sets before giving up. They were de feated 6-3, 4-6, 3-6, 3-6. Dr Winston and Mrs. Robertson de- ootori a TVs ft. P. Johnson and her son. Robert Johnson, of Ashevill., m mixea doubles, 6-2, 6-3. . t- winutrm won the men's singles by defeating C. W. Smoot. 6-2. 6-2. Mrs. Johnson defeated Mrs. Robert 4-1, 5-0 Mrs. Johnson son for tne women o siugico 6-1. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. At Buffalo 3; Syracuse 6. At Reading 6-7; Baltimore 19-6- No others scheduled. 6 1 5 2 and 4 7 APPALACHIAN FLAG MAY CHANGE HANDS Briston, Va-Tenn.. Sept. 10. Pres ident Ellison, ' th Appalachian League, Friday ruled that all games won by Kingsport .his season ill ivhich Pitcher Sam Hall played must te thrown out of the ilub standings md replaved. This puts tin Kings nort club, which had practically cni rhed the pennant for the se.ond half of the season, in third place and lohnson City in first place. Hail was placed on the ineligible list by the Lakeland, Florida State League, club last year f..r failure to report. .Later the Lakeland club wired his release to the Ivinssp-irt management, but President Ellison ruled that, inasmuch i as Ins DAine ippeared on the ineligible list of play prTsent out by the National Commis sion, the club had no k-gal riht to t i e-instatc him. Philadelphia, Sept. 10. Rapid-fire eliminations marked the initial days play in the fortieth annual singles championship tournament of the United States Lawn Tennis Association on tne courts of the Germantown Cricket Club here Friday. Fifty-odd matches were played between noon and six p. m. and but one upset marked tne progre&a of the .leading racquet wielders of America and Australia, into the second and third rounds. As if to expedite matches, a large majority of the match es were won in three straight sets. The outstanding surprise of the alter the defeat of Normar Peach, captain of the Australian Davis cup team, by W. W. Ingram oi provi dence, R. I. Peach, who was expected to advance as far as a match with R. Norris Williams, former national cham pion, fell before the racquet prowess of a player still in his teens. Ingraham proved entirely too fast and accurate in both his service, stroking and placing for Peach. V JOHNSON SCORED William M. Johnson, of San Fran cisco, winner of the championship in 1915 and 1919, also was forced to play titular tennis in defeating H. G. M. Kellyer, of New York, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Kel Iver surprised the gallery of some 6,000 by forcing the play all through the three seats. He was steady and accurate in his service and return to his more illustrious opponent and Johnson had to battle for every point. In the other matches, tournament class and experience told, Tilden, Wil liams, Wallace Johnson, Washburn, Shimidzu Vincent Richards, the Kinsey brothers and the Australians, Todd, Hawkes and Anderson, all entering the second round with only fair opposition During the first round, ther? were li defaulting matches, including those by Lindley M. Murray, IKum3.ze. ..uc a CJflHand and S. Kashio. Six matches went the full five sets; four reauired four sets ana inrew wbc to twenty duce sets in the day's round. MIRKS SELL FOR PENNY. New York, Sept. 10. German marks sold for less than a cent a piece in the foreign exchange market here to day. After opening at 0.99 cents they advanced to one cent fiat, which figure represented an overnight decline of 0.0225 cents. POINTERS' "PITCHERS" CINCHY Greensboro, Sept. 10. Greensboro slammed the services of Frennisk, Ro man and Holt 23 times Friday and eas ily defeated the second-half league lead- ers in a punn exmuiuun me o.wic of 16 to 3. n High Point .. . . 0.00 012 000 3 10 3 Greensboro .. ..620 022 22x 16 23 2 Frennick, Roman, Holt and Sessions; Smith, Teague and Moorefield. RALEIGH DEFEATED TWINS Winston-Salem. Sept. 10. Raleigh's timely hits were coupled with Winston Saltm's untimely errors Friday and, the iricitnrs took the firt of the series from 11C X- v-vi. - Norman I the Twins by the score of ft to s Raleigh ll uu i i Winston-Salem . .010 1000 000 z b 4 Krepps and Spencer; sutler, Clements and Weir. At Danville-Durham, rain. LOCAL GOLFERS LOSE IN ASHEVILLE EVENT The Charlotte contingent of golfers who participated in the invitation tniTmnmprt at the Asheville Country mnVi this week has been eliminated fr-nm tho rhamnlonshin lists. Robin Rrpm. Julian Herndon and Paul Hal rir,nv ail failed to nass into the semi finals. The championship match . Sat urday is being played by Henry . West all, the Asheville crack, and Clarence Camp, of Ocala, Fla. VIRGINIA LEAGUE At Norfolk 13; Suffolk 3. At Richmond 3; Wilson 0. At Portsmouth 4; Rocky Mount 0. 4t Tarboro 11; Newport News 4. Do you know you can roll SO Mood cigarettes for lOcts from one bag of GENUINE 'BUlTDURHAM TOBACCO We want you to have the bast paper for "BULL." So new you can receive with each package a book of 24 leaves of iRUrV. the very finest cigarette paper in the world. 95 fl LU Typewriters of all makes sold, rent ed, exchanged or repaired. ruim a ; y J$agroMJ?P82&&-. 12 Tennis Goods1 You can't pick any better time for tennis than the fall of the year. The courts are good up to near Christmas time. Let us keep you in shape for the game. We also restring tennis rackets. Carolina Sporting Goods Co, EVERYTHING FOR THE OUTDOOR MAN 5 West Fourth Street. (Just Oil Tryon) Phone 3248 T J.
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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