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A, Ricfegymd 4,$N?w,ajk 3.: Only f two: gam. - : 1XSMAKE A SAFE HIT. fctiefraitrf' Mich;. July ?.-Ty Cobb failed to hit safely in yesterday's! fame, here,' and' broke nts-streaK ot 60 fB0Utrve.' games in iwhich he has $ltT;' safely. He- stm holds the- major I9g?ier record with 4ft' games. ' $IeEiind Scott stopped Cobb. ' The rmePi.'haB always been a difficult proposition for the Detroit star to gorye. JJe recently-held Cebb hitless tlfc the Georgian came to bat: for Ifijifilast tame.. - Then Ty beat out a &t: Faber; during his major1 league ee,:: ha hld- Cobb to a - batting fXQr&B pf. les?- than .255. The late Ad4ie. .Joss-. was the only jlier who bett'more-r effective against him; v Cobb was at bat three 1 times (igaiof t Faber , today. On his last Ipv t the? plate Jim Scott opposed j'. and: Cobb's first " effort .was a : gouncfer-'tc-. Weaver. ; s' - iqbbC begaji ; his - hitting streak g&ffist ' .Gleyeland oh DecorationvDay; liV.averaged ,500 during the East fcntrfp aid continued his terrific ' fitttThg' when the "Qetoit club re- COOP ARRAY OF ;! ; AMATEUR GOLFERS ;fOficago, lll.; July 7: Amateur golf . er.s ; who have., attained prominence- on line 'Jinks, In : various parts' of the Unit ed 'afes 'wffl tee up at the Midlo-;S.Q8b-.i9Ux...Clllb.: Monday morning fiiffie annual tournament for the Amateur Championship of .the West- y'irik";isto,Wi.&i mm KMmiii Afit,ti t,A ,t- r-nrr!tr. L --mf0 Poaph.s were V iirr, rawX:rr"4,' f ljlf ils 11 I J F HinLt bJU L X " ; :' V' ': .-' H y Will be Held in August Not r J-d: TUUs A rtwv to t Conflict - With U Drafting mlSlehe y . ). : ':'-. A . . ' . (By United Fress.) r ! -' New - York, July:p .rThe annual championship games bf thfe. Amateur Xthieiicr Union, ihsteadfXbeijig held during the first weeks -of September, as usually is the .case, probably will be fought out this Kear -"along about the" middle of August;; .The fact that Uncle Bam; will be Ibusy making ; his " first selections. - for. ah army to Whip the Germans at tne tinte the national athletes usually are doing things is the reason: Three: fourths" 6T the -most "prbmiheht 'men in. . both; divisiofls of thfe : union are eligible to the draft, and t&ey ire expected to, respond promptly to .thiei j call. Holding a meet in that event I would, be like, a world's series with ! the rival umpires from each league doing ail the playing as well as the talking. - , ' The East is- still favored for the location of the games. It does hot Seem at all probable that .St. Louis will rally and decide" to hold the games regardless of war conditions. Chicago, and Philadelphia both are eager to pull off the conzests and other cities are bidding. Agitation for the continuation of sports in spite of the war is having its effect in the A. A. U. The de cision to give medals instead of the proposed certificates may be expected at ' any time.- Interest, it has been found, is just as keen now as at any time. 'War is detracting nothing from the popularity of ' the knights of the cinder path. It had been decided to give only certificates of victory for this year, in the belief that the v.-r Would claim so many men a real champion ship event would not be patriotic: JUt tne opposite nas oeen iouna to be the case. The certainty with which various college officials have expressed themselves, added to the declaration" of President Wilson that he favored the continuation of games are having their effect. Sports are going to be Upheld if it is at all pos sible. The tentative decision to hold the national games earlier this year rs only one indication of the direction the Eastern fan's mind is following. Football, it has been starec by an authority, is going to have lots of s'oppOrters ' before time comes for the referee to start action. JUDGE DISCHARGES QQAL CASE DEFENDANTS (By Associated Press.) Now York, July 7. United States Judge Grubb late yesterday dis missed the indictment against the following defendants in the govern ment's trial of Virginia and West Vir ginia coal operators and corporations under the v Sherman law: W. H. Hol land, Jr., secretary of the Ballinger Coal Company, and the Turkey Knob tne western front. Directly ahead of Coal Company; Shawnee Coal and. the city les some of tne most ter. Coke Company; Stone Wall Coal andribly ravished ground of "all that Coke Company, Stone Cliff Coal and wnicn tne Germans relinquished in Coke Company, Thomas Coal Com- tneir strategic retreat ." Dispatches pany; United Pocahontas coal Com- reCeived in April and May from Wil pany. . liam Philip Simms and Henry Wood, ern Golf Association. In the number and prominence of its : participants the tournament promises to be the premier event of its kind this year. The East is expected' to" be represent ed by a delegation headed by Fran cisOuimet, of Boston, "former" na- tional and open amateur champion; ! are accurate hey will, however M. R. Marston, of the Baltusrol Golf find this wasted land all rebuilt. New Club, and H. E. Armstrong, another roads have been constructed and the Prominent golfer of the metropolitan great jag:ge(1 holes left b shfells district. The South is sending "Bob-: smoothed over in part at least, by" Jones, .the new Southern cham-' TXe St. Quentin sector is ideally pion, and Perry Adair, of Atlanta. The . located for the "American front " local field will include practically Two big trunk l!nes of railways will every. prominent amateur,- with tne give full access to it, the land is gent exception of Charles Evans Jr., na- ly level. and drained by the Somme tmual and open amateur champion, riveiv Beyond St. Quentin the land and , A Gardner former national held by the Germans becomes more titlenolder. hillv r v - - r-a'v" D&r upo traaspprta, for Mnce. T.;mDont - - mey constituted part feeia up by theeasor untq w9r wpr ;was . r Between Britisi, anc French Lines. " ifrog washington: S4jpre?rai: Per- shing's expeditionary army - is to be - gn : a place " between the French 'ntid: " Pritish- armies ' ih' " tlie western and British -armies' in tne western ., . ... j: .l -' ' Havo nno inf theater or war, mey :wi nr vu themost important sections-of. the tneaver ui .h-v"--: thfi .wost t important seciipns . or.. iu i whdla.wetern frpht nder their care. , ; . Ho'ene knovrs exactly the present V jutipviuu yuiuw i BriUsh atmtes-but it is somewhere f arouua ueuMii r" . -- ;! most southerly, point 2 tnehtioAed in J British ' official statements as having been- fought over by Field Marshal Haig's JoTces" isAFayet, about one mile north of St.' Quehtin. . ":" ' ' Savy, hot more than two miles fur ther south arbund St. uemln, has frequently - been - mentioned in the French , Waf Office statements. It was captured by French troops early in. April, and presumably IS occupied by them now. ": ', sk. Quentin is an important keyf point I in c the Douai-Cambrai-LaFere line of the German defense : On the western front.' The British', dndr&n-:n.')A''mAn within the coming year. Frehch offensive - of Match , and- April brought the Allied forces to within a mne oi'uue- ft. w.' time of the Offensive, apparently; one . at onCe as pilot-obserVersr. : Tne great of the main obieetives of the r drive j ep nart of the remainder, it is expected by which the French and- British -fQMwiU.be recruited" frgm civil life and will lowed up- Hindenburg's famous- "strat- egic retreat. inen, wnen iae uity was within actual sight of the Allied tioDs. a weakness in the German riofPTisp rtPVPloDed elsewhere along the Franco-British front caused a change in tflans, and the drive on St. Quentin. was temporarily held up pending blows struck at tne -weaKer spot. ; As far as official statements for the past three months have shown, the Allied line in this particular sec tor now runs something liko this From Gonnelieu, to Villers Guis- lain, to Epehy, to Ronssoy, Hargi - court. Vill?ret. Le Vergiiter, fontru, Maissemy, Fresnoy le Petit, Fayet, Selenoy, Savy. Chaunv, Coucy le Cha teau, Landricourt. All these towns are held by the French and British troops. Supposing that this is the section picked for the American expedition ary army, it seems reasonable to presume there will soon be another drive at the basic city of St. Quen tin carried out by the Americans. St. Quentin and the city of La Fere, the latter located approximate ly 12 miles to the south, are the foundations on which Hindenburg built his famous "line." The Ger man front in this particular section Bwings- in a, great arc from St. Quen tin to LaFere, below Laon, and then sharply upward again along the front where the French have recently won " their wonderful success In the Aisne drive to Rheims. From this description, it- will be seen that penetration of the German lines anywhere along this arc not only would menace the German grip on all of Flanders and Belgium to the north, but likewise would give opportunity for a treniendnus flank ing movement on the German Iine3 to the south. . For this reason some of the fierc est fighting of the war has made the St. Quentin sector Woody ground on the United Press staff correspondents with the British and French armies, told vividly of the destruction wreak- Gd unon the villa e-es nf vrman.t I Hflm t irn $sv. tw0 n tne path of this retreating horde. By the time American troops ar- i rive there if thf WashiniHnn rannyti: r - rciaiiiUEs exyeuiuonary lorce, are . The other photograph shows Ameri-can of th a., command of. Colonel Doyen, ecieiyed ;tliat , tfee. spiers d ; pieirige f Everv Elffort to Washington-, Bt&g&f in belief that arcrHfV: wHi . bf one of mns imnortant fkctors in diCter- mThlng tiic world wlr, tije Wa f iepart m Ant' is exertink every effort : toward , miplng the i tment is, exi thWexnansic the expansion of the American mmtarynnajspensaijm fnrna V V . . . v ..v . .Lx ' 4i iQtiMi'A wtittarv establishment performs l tWyiatibiii ser of:tho gyeat aviation: service apa e coBur;uy .yia Won aAt.ft fwt which it is oro- .oa to'send to Europe, j In order' to construct, the thousands of . fliers that will De neeaea or me servwe k io u- ticipated that many -automobile and other manuiacturingpiantS'Wruuuvui, th v cQUntry'Wiii bevtuf ned over to this; The construction ;bf the -fr America aero fleet wilt be the greatest task of its kind ever.undertatten by any nation. The greatest difficult is anticipated, however, in securing a sufficient num ber of trained aviators to man tne. ma, chines when-they are cpmpleted.-r ; If the new aircraft Tm, cai'ryhTg: an Initial abPropriatioh of $600,udO,090 for I aviation ; purposes, i& passed- by; Con- jrressi as ' there1 is -every indication n will be, the aviation section of the Slg nal Corps will be expanded - to; almost o? thes4 59.000 men it is expected that ab0lit 20,00.0 wiU;be from the ranks Of tne1 mtantry arm, ana wm ue wuueu be put through the regular course of training For the purpose of training this great army ot aviators irainmg I camps will be established at a cost-of aDDroximdtely $1,000,000 eadh. The largest of these training schools will be at Camp Kelly, San Antonio, Texas Others will be located at convenient points in various sections of the coun try. In charge of this huge department of the military service is Brig. Gen. Geo. O. Squier, who, within a year, nas risen 1 from the rank of lieutenant-colonel to ongamer general, it is oniy a mue more than a year since Lieut. Col. Squier was. nominated by the Secretary of War to be the head of the aviation section of the Signal Corps. His at tainments as an electrician and me chanician and his resourcefulness as an- inventor made the choice seem a natural one to men in the army who believa in placing experts in charge of important details of administration. General Squier was born at Dryden, Mich., in 1865. He entered the United States Military Academy when eigh teen years of age, and was graduated with high honors in 1887. He studied physics while at West Point, but later at the direction of the War Depart ment, added to. his.scientific knowledge by a course 'a't' Johns Hopkins tftiiver sity, being made a Fellow at that insti tution in 1892. He acted as chief signal officer of the Third Army Corps during the war with Spain. FOr two years, 1900 to 1902, during the laying of the Philip pine cable telegraph system, he was in command of the cable ship Burnside. The work of laying the cables between the various islands of the Philippines was undertaken at great risk owing to the hostility-of the natives. In 1912 Colonel Squier was named as military attache of the American embassy in London. He returned to the United States later to find that what he had studied at Johns Hopkins as a theory had become a practical de vice. He studied aeronautics for some time, but.it was while., at work in the laboratory, of the Signal Corps at Washington that he discovered "wired wireless," which includes multiple tele phony, wireless telephony, long dis tance telephony and practical tele pony, all of which became possible at a single stroke through Cblonel Squiers invention of the multiplex tele phone. After the colonel had patented his invention he presented it to the public. Since he became chief of the avia - tion section of the Signal Corps Gen eral -Squier. has displayed the same thoroughness in his ctudy of the science of aviation that "he did in his early electrical investigations. , Today he is generally recognized as the albest man who could be selected by the War Department to direct the construction and operations of the great American aero fleet that is counted on by the Allies to destroy the "eyes' of the Ger man military forces. seen emenus tne pici v , tuc ,ui marines on board the traifl'whicl .which went to France to flghtundeip ajriye-sfejjr a LT BIB UiiUEKIAlilub OfganlzationJo the Pay-De- : partment ana us Mreai 1111 should1 k- almost-any soldier of .the army who' is the mbst Important of- mosrUkelyitV-repiy.: tM nav-day v ydt this important auu t UUP , HtHo lT- ,4m lMtte& so auietry srtd Is so 5 little mentioned in official bulletins and re- ports, that its vaiue ine sre likely to pe .unaeresu.maivu -; .; . , ; There fs perhaps no infinence so po tent in1: the maintenance and preserya Uofe of discipline1 and order in armies a' their just and regular payment. Es pecially" ia this , true in time of war. - -. When it is consiaerea mai tue uuiy, e4 1 States is likely soon tq have ah armv of otte million or more men,, sent- fered Ove tne iour.quariera oi wioi globe, some idea' of tne coiossai uisk involved iri their regular payment may De:: formed. . it is assureu, buws', that every soldier on Uncle c Sam's payroll: wiil' receive his pary : regularly, whether he be 'stationed vwithin sight oWashineton. on the fighting front i Fiirnne in . the Canal Zone, or at remote posts in' Alaski' the : Philip pines. ; ,- : ,; .In, the opinion, of experts with years of experience -no system cattr be de vised which, equal to the present one, can be made to combine the advani- ages of prompt payment,- the safety of the public money, and an accurate and prompt accountability . . The present pay system of the army is the result of years of study on the part of those who from time to time have served at the head of this depart ment of the military estamisnmenx, ThA department is as old as the mil itarv establishment itself. The earl iest legislation creating a pay depart ment, is the resolution of the Conti nental Congress, in session at Phila delphia, June 16, 1775, as follows: "Resolved, That there be one paymaster-general, and a deputy under him, for the army, in a separate de partment; that the pay for the paymaster-general himself be one hun dred dollars per month, and for the deputy paymaster under him, fifty dol lars per month." For many years after the establish ment is the resolution of the Confi partment of the army was conducted under a rather loose system. As a rule the duty of paying the officers and soldiers was in charge of a chief paymaster, sometimes designated one way, sometimes another, and of offi cers of the line, usually lieutenants, de tailed for .the purpose. This pay corps was at different times larger or smaller, according to the exigencies of the service as viewed by Congress, as its officers also for the same reason had better pay and rank at some times than at others. The principle of the payment of the army by line officers detailed for the purpose remained substantially the same until 1821. In that year the sys 'em was improved by an act of Con gress which practically abolished this mere pay corps and established in its place a pay department, with a chief under the direct orders of the Secre tary of Wat. and subordinates forming an independent staff. 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