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Philadelphia hung to the trail of the Giants by trimming the Reds twice. Alexander barely shaded Suggs in. the.iirst game. In the sec qnd Seaton breezed along while his mates hopped Mordecai Brown. Cra- vath tore off two-homers and a single m the second, Becker got a triple and single and Luderus double and sin gle. Four Brooklyn pitchers were whal ed for 19 hits by the Pirates. Brook lyn also batted strongly, McQuillan going to the rescue of Cooper. Hans Wagner, the decrepit cuss, cracked a homer and triple, Carey a triple and three .singles, Mike Mitchell a double and two singles and Jack Mil ler three singles. Cutshaw of Brook lyn, got a couple of doubles. Carey caught eight flies in left -field. ; Cy Morgan of the Kansas City team has been' bought by the Cincin jjatl Beds and he will report in the East. Monday. Morgan was turned back' to the minors by the .Athletics because he wouldn't keep-la condi tion, but has been doing great work. William H. Locke, president of the Philadelphia National League club, died suddenly yesterday near Atlan tic City. He was thought to be recov ering from illness which almost re sulted in his death in February. Locke was formerly secretary of the Pirates and went to Philadelphia when Horace Fogel was ousted. Pitcher Roy Mitchell of the St. Louis Browns has been suspended for five days because of his pugilistic actions toward Ump O'Laughlin in New York a few days ago. Jack Coombs of the Athletics, who was gradually rounding to form after a siege of typhoid, was struck on the knee by a liner from Oldring's bat during practice in Cleveland yester day and will not be able to pitch for at least a week. o o Standard Oil earned $20,000,000 more this year than last. When the TJ. S. Supreme Court killed that trust it surely went to Heaven. j PENMAN CAUGHT-450NFESSES HE KILLED HAROLD SHAW Champaign, III., Aug. 15. Gust Penman, son of wealthy Champaign county farmer, hunted for two days as the murderer of Harold A. ShawJ University of Illinois student, was ar rested at Ridgefarm, a village near Danville. Penman confessed his' guilt immediately!. "Auto-mania" will probably '. be Penman's defense. He says he had been drinking and he wanted Shaw's car because it was faster than his own, therefore he killed him. . "I thought I could get away," he said. "I wanted to go- to. South America. I didn't have much money, but I just wanted to get away. But I couldn't forget what I :had. done: The-thing got on my nerves. I just seemed to be going, around in a cir- '. cle. I haven't' slept at all. I would just as soon die as go on like this. "I wanted to see my parents.. I could easily have gotten away from the old man who recognized me and arrested me, but I wanted to go home. I don't know why I did it. The drinks, maybe, and then I wanted his 'Yellow Devil.' It was faster than our car. Something just told me to kill him. I Bhot him twice." Precautions were taken to prevent' any mob demonstrations against Penman when -he was brought to the jail, but there was no trouble. o o SUFFRAGE KILLED AGAIN London, Aug. 15. Woman suf-' frage killed for third time in three years in British Parliament, the com mons defeating, by an overwhelming majority, bill giving the vote to 6,000,000 women householders and wives of householders. Chanchellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd-George stated that this nrt'nn was due entirely to the "or ganized lunacy" of the Women's So- ' cial and Political Union, which had entered upon the fiercest campaign militancy in the. histor yof Eng land.