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HWWJfMWWWj'flf1 V SPORTS FINAL ii1- s B i , EVENING LEDGER - - SPORTS i InfiM L VOL. I-1TO. 11 PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER &5, 1014. PRICE ONE CENT TAKING THE JUMP AT BRYN MAWR HORSE SHOW ii; y I- BASEBALL RESULTS AT A GLANCE NATIONAL LEAGUE R- H. E. Chicago 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 02 8 2 Phillies 0 0010 0010 13 111 Batteries -Baumgartner and Burns; Lavender and Archer. Umpires Rigler and Hart. Pittsburgh 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 1 Brooklyn 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Batteries Kelly and Coleman; Reulbach and McCarty. Umpires O'Connor and Byron. St. Louis 0 0000100 0 'New York 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 x Batteries Griner and Wingo; Fromme and Meyers. Umpires Klem and Emslie. FIRST GAME ooooooo 0 0 0 0 1 0 x Cincinnati 0 0 Boston 0 1 3 2 1 3 0 2 Batteries Yingling and Gonzales; Rudolph and Gowdy. Umpires Quigley and Eason. SECOND GAME Cincinnati 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 Boston 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 Batteries Douglas and Gonzales; James and Gowdy. UmpireB Quigley and Eason. 0 3 x 4 MRS. JOHN R. VALENTINE, ONE OF THE FOREMOST HORSEWOMAN OF THIS CITY, ON FALIAN, THE HIGHLAND FARM ENTRY VILLA PREPARING TO SEND HIS ARMY AGAINST CARRANZA LIGHT ON BIPARTISAN "DEALS" DDE TODAY IN PENROSE PROBE I Concentrating Troops at Chi huahua and T o r r e o n . Felix Diaz and Huerta's Successor to Aid New Revolt. By LEWIS T. MATSON EL PASO. Te.x Sept. 25. Tho real situation south of tho Rio Grande was hidden today behind tho curtain of censor ship, and by General Francisco Villa, who has taken up arms agntnBt his former chief. Provisional President Venuatlano Carranza. Jt Is known however that Villa Is hur riedly concentrating troops at Chihuahua City and at Torrcon. Requests sent to Villa for an expression upon the statement Issued by Carranza In Mexico City, In which the Provisional President expressed the belief that peace would soon be restored, brought no reply. Political loaders throughout Mexico are taking sides and It la reported that General Felix Diaz, a nephow of ox Presldent Forflrio Diaz, and Francisco Carbajal, who succeeded Vlctorlano Hucrta as President, aro hurrying to El Paso to offer their services to Villa. Great activity exists In Juarez. Train loads of supplies aro being sent south ward. It Is evident that for weeks Villa his been preparing for this emergency. His aides declared that the VHIasta army has enough ammunition and pro captured." vlalons to last "until Mexico City Is There U a Vllllsta Junta here and an other at Houston. There revolutionary headquarters are making vigorous efforts to cloak all of Villa's movements. It Is evident that VJlla wants to deliver a surprise atack against the army which Carranza Is sending northward from the capital. Tho United States authorities are con fident that there will not be any lighting along the border, which would Imperil the lives of Americans on United States soil or American property. It Is con fidently believed that the fighting will take plaoo In tho southern part of the Btate of Chihuahua or even farther south. Villa Is going to lead his troops In person, whereas General Carranza In tends to remain In Mexico City, leav ing field operations to members of his staff. A dispatch brought here by courier from Chihuahua says that General Villa has expressed his belief that the United States will not Interfere with his warfare on General Carranza, and that General Obregon has been sent to Mexico City Instead of Juarez. Reorganization Democrats Point to Affiliations Be tween Old Guard and Liquor Ring of Machine. m ui I l GARRISON ORDERS TROOPS TO REMAIN AT VERA CRUZ Withdrawal of American Soldiers Impossible at This Time. WASHING-TON, Sept. 25.-Secretary of War Garrison today cabled General Funston at Vera Cruz that there was no possibility of the withdrawal of American troops within the next ten days. The departure of the troops may be Indefinitely postponed under pretext of civil and diplo matic difficulties, pending the outcome of the now revolt- Delay In completing formalities for turning over by General Funston of the port and customs collec tions to a Constitutionalist representative will operate, It was said, to postpone de parture of the troops. Isolation of Vera Cruz from Mexico City by the cutting ot railway and wire communication ore also expected to delay the evacuation. Seven transports were today loading army supplies at Vera Cruz In anticipation of early surrender of tho city, however. Complications viewed with some appre hension in Administration circles were prospective urgent demands by Carranza lor immediate departure of the Ameri cans and a protest from Villa against Blvlng the port to any Carranza agent. This would present a difficult and dllcate Problem to the Presldcnt-almost a choice upport between the rival leaders. Villa Is concentrating his forces at Chi nuahua and I preparing to strike quickly, acording to latest dispatches to the State J-J,artm.;nt Details of the situation hve Bipartisan deals between the Old Guard Democrats and tho Republican Organization In Philadelphia through a communion of Interests In the "liquor ring" are expected to bo brought to light before the Senato Committee on Privileges and Elections when that committee meets In Washington today to dccldo upon an investigation of Sen ator Penrose's primary campaign "slush fund." Itcorganlzcrs point out that tho Old Guurd Democratic City Committee, which frequently has been a party to biparti san deals, is bound to the Republican Organization and the liquor Interests by financial and marriage ties through Its chairman, D, Gordon Bromley. Bromley Is secretary und treasurer of the Continental Brewing Company, at 21st street nnd Washington avenue. John Gardiner, president of the brew ery. Js his brother-in-law. Gardiner lives at 1800 Pine street, in tho 17th division of tho Seventh Ward, nnd was enrolled at the last election as a Re publican. Gardiner, according to reports, has been called to appear as a witness be fore the Senate Committee as the presi dent of tho Pennsylvania Brewers' As sociation. The reports state that the committee has also called Charles F. Ettla who manages the mahogany-furnished offices of the Pennsylvania Brew ers' Association at 1501 Land Title Build ing, and Neil Bonner, of 22d and Car penter streets, president of the Penn sylvania Federation of Liquor Dealers. Bonner was associated with tho old Donnelly-Ryan organization 10 years ago, and later became an Independent Democrat. Last spring he returned to the Old Guard fold, Immediately after tho primaries ho announced that he was a Republican, and that he would support Senator Penrose and the Re publican ticket. Ettla has always beer, a "liquor man" In politics. It has been throusn the Influence of Bromley, Us chairman, and his connec tions with a Republican, n "llnuor mnn- and a former Democrat, that the Demo cratlc City Committee has obeyed the dictates of tho liquor Interests by re fusing to support tho Democratic party of the State in Its local option pledge. Bromley and Vance C. McCormlck. the Democratic candidate for Governor on the platform which the organization headed by Bromley refused to Indorse, were delegates to the last Democratic National Convention and voted together for President Wilson. They both worked to swing Pennsylvania In line for Wil son. When McCormlck became a candidate, for Governor, however, on a platform of which local option was a principal plank, Bromley broke wt' McCormlck because of his financial nnd other connections with the brewery interests, and tho Dem ocratlc City Committee, under Bromley's leadership, failed to Indorse the Demo cratlc State platform because It favored local option. Political leaders who are watching the effort being made for a Senato Investi gation of Senator Penrose's campaign fund3, today recalled Bromley's views on the liquor question, expressed by the Democratic City Committee chairman three weeks after the primary election. At that time Bromley, In answer to a question regarding the probable attitude of the City Committee toward the Demo cratic State platform, called local option "an attack upon personal liberty." He aid that he did not know the views of the members of the Democratic City Committee, but that this was his personal view. WILSON TURNS DOWN JERSEY DEMOCRATS' SECOND TERM BOOST AMERICAN LEAGUE Athletics 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 Chicago 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Batteries Wolfgang and Schalk; Bush and Schang. Umpires Evans and Sheridan. Washington 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Cleveland 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 Batteries Bentley and Henry; Steen and Egan. Umpires Egan and Dineen. President Says Such Action Would Take Advantage of Present Extraordinary Situation for Personal Gain WASHINGTON, Sept. 2J.-Prcsldent Wilson today declined to allow tho Dem ocrats of New Jersey to Indorse him for a second term. Ho believed that such an indorsement might look as If he were "taking advan tage of the extraordinary situation now existing to gain some personal advantage through such an expression of confidence by thm." He directed his secretary, J. P. Tumulty, to write a letter to Edward E. Grosscup, State Treasurer of New Jersey, outlining his views on the matter. The letter says: "Mv Dear Oroticup: "You were generous enough to consult mo as to whether tho Democrats of New Jersey should at this time endorse tho President for a. second term. I had a talk with the President about It and ho deeply appreciates tho generosity of tho sugges tion, but New Jersey Is his own state, tho men who would net In this matter aro his own personal friends, and he feels that It might seem as If he wero taking advantago of the extraordinary situation now existing to gain some per sonal advantngo through such an ex pression of confidence by them. "This would be Inconsistent with his whole thought and spirit, and he shrinks from It as from something that would embarrass rather than help him. "He feels confident that you will know the spirit in which he says this, and that In urging the Democrats of New Jersey not to do this he Is not nhntlno- In h. least his deep appreciation. "Very sincerely yours. "J. P. TUMULTY, "Secretary to tho President," New York 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Detroit 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 Batteries Warhop and Nunamaker; Cavet and McKee. Umpires Connolly and Hildebrand. Boston 0 1 0 0 St. Louis 4 0 0 0 Batteries Shore and Thomas; Hamilton and Agnew. Umpires Chill and O'Loughlin. 0 0 0 x 2 0 R. 3 1 1 3 5 4 9 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 H. 7 4 3 7 7 11 E. 1 2 2 2 1 5 PENN CHARTER-CHELTENHAM FOOTBALL RESULT Penn Charter... 14 0 0 0 14 Cheltenham .... 0 0 0 00 CRAVATH'S HOIER IN TENTH BEATS VISITING CUBS Local Player Breaks Up Game With Timely Hit Into Centrefield Bleachers. Final Score is 3 to 2. MACK'S ATHLETICS AGAIN DEFEAT THE CHICAGO CLUBMEN GERMANS CAPTURE HEIGHTS ON MEUSE AS ALLIES FALTER Invaders Push Lines Forward as They Maintain Terrific Bombardment of Forts on French Right Wing Rheims Is Again Shelled. Verdun Now Threatened on Three Sides. Von Kluk Defends Important Rail way Centre of Tergnier Against Deter mined Attacks of French and British. The War Today CHICAGO. AB. It. 2b.. Leach, cf... Knlsely, rf. Saier, lb.... Zimmerman, Schulte, If.. Bues. 3b Fisher, si..., Archer, o 4 Pierce, p... 0 Lavender, p - Dresnahan 0 Williams 0 mi. 0 0 0 o i 3 0 I 0 0 0 0 PO. WEATHER FORECAST For Philadelphia and vicinity Cloudy tonight, Saturday fair; con,-, tinued cool; moderuia north and northwtst winds. For dtJgMl, m pafffi tj , THREE INJURED AS TRUCK STRIKES TELEGRAPH POLE Accident Follows Chauffeur's Quick Turn to Avoid Car Collision. Three men wero Injured, two seriously, early this afternoon, when a heavy American Express Company automobile truck crashed into a telegraph pole at 51th and Jefferson streets, hurling the oc cupants into the street. The chauffeur turned the truck qulokly to avoid strik ing a trolley car. The injured aro Joseph Bcott. 2321 Pine street: Patrick Carey. 214 South Donsall street, and John J. Tobln, 2307 Waverly street. Soott received a fracture of both thighs and Tobln Is believed to have In ternal Injuries. Carey, who Is the chauffeur of the truck and who escaped with cuts and brulseH, had Invited Tobln to accompany him for a ride. Tho heavy machine was traveling south on 54th street when the trolley started to cross In front of It Realizing that he would not have time to halt his machine. Carey turned the steering wheel suddenly and crashed Into a telegraph pole. Tho three men were picked up by Stevon Humphry, S33 Spruce street, and taken to the West Phlla delphla Homeopathic Hospital In his auto-mobile. FALL WEATHER HERE NOW Mercury at Noon Today IUcorded Just 65 Degrees. Gloomy skits and falling temperature today brought Autumn here In real earn est. Its arrival -was marked by the ab sence of bright-hued costumes on the street. Incidentally, the shopkeeper wer happier for they (Ind that too much Bum mer causes too much hesitancy in the way of buying fall clothes. i noon trm mercury had dropped to et jrtes and Forecaster BlUs says then is m likely to b any more real -warm awe hw areAU Totals 31 2 7 '27 13 Batted for Lavender In ninth. "Rnn for Bresnahan In the ninth. Pierce relieves Lavender in the ninth PHILLIES. AB. R. H. PO. Reed, ss 4 0 2 3 Byrne. 3b 5 0 0 2 Mngce, If 4 13 1 Cravath, rf. 4 10 4 Becker, cf 4 13 4 Luderus. lb 4 0 2 9 Irelan, 2b 3 0 0 3 Burns, c 2 0 0 6 Baumgartner, p. ,. 3 0 0 0 A. K. 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 White Elephants Trample White Sox in an Interest ing Game, the Final Score Being 3 to 1 . CHICAGO. Demmltt. If. Blackburne, 2b. Collins, rf. Fournler, lb. Schalk, c. Weaver, ss. Roth, cf. Bretton, 3b. Wolfgang, p. ATHLETICS. Murphy, rf. Walsh, If. Collins, 2b. Strunk, cf. Mclnnls, lb. Baker, 3b. Barry, ss. Schang, c. Shawkey, p. Totals 3J 3 10 30 14 1 None out when winning ruh was scored. r. h. e. Chicago .. 01000000! 0-2 72 Phillies .. 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 I 0 1-3 10 I Two-base hits Zimmerman, Pchulte. Heel, Leach. Home run Oruvath. Struck out Djr I.avtn.kr. Oj llaumsartner, 4j Pierce, O. First bass on bills Ily I.aewler, 1; llaumcarlner, 4; Pierce. 1. Sacrifice hits Hues. Fisher, 3; Ornvath. Stolen bases IJecker. Umpires Itigler and Hart. PHILADELPHIA BALL PARK. Sept. 25. Cravath's homo run Into the centre field bleachers in the tenth Inning de cided the game between the Phillies and the Cubs In favor of the home club. The score was S to 2. Baumgartner went the whole route for the Daisies, allowing the Cubs but eight hits. Lavender pitched fairly good ball for eight innings, but was taken out to allow Bresnahau to. bat In the ninth. Pierce twirled the remainder of the game for the visitors. The field was wet and slow, but this did not prevent Becker and Cravath from pulling off a pair of sensational catches. FIRST INNING. Leach filed to Cravath. Knlsely walked. Saler forced Knlsely to Reed, unassisted. Zimmerman smashed a double to right centre, but Saler was thrown out uttempt ins to score, Cravath to Irelan to Burns. No runs, one hit, no errors. Reed singled to centre. Reed was caught napping off first, Archer to Saler. Byrne fouled to Bues. Magee singled against the right field wall. Cravath fouled to Knlsely. No luns, two hits, no errors. SECOND INNING. Schulte doubled to centre. Bues sacri ficed, Baumgartner to Luderus. Schulte scored on, Fisher a sacrifice fly to Be-ker Concluded on face It Umpire Evans, alone. CHICAGO, 111., Sept. K. The Athletics took the second game of the White Sox series In conclusive style, defeating Callahan's men three to one. Wolfgang and Shawkey pitched good ball, but the latter was superior to his opponent In the pinches. The local men scored their only run in the first Inning on clean hitting, but the Mackmen sent two over In the following round on three hits and wild throw by Ray Schalk. The Athletics third run was scored In the fifth on a walk, a hit and a double steal by Barry and .Murphy. FIRST INNING. Murphy singled to centre. Walsh fan ned and Murphy was doubled stealing, Schalk to Weaver. Wolfgang threw out E. Collins. No runs, one hit. Demmltt walked Blackburne mcrlftced, Shawkey to Mclnnls. Collins singled to left, scoring Demmltt. Fournler dronned a Texas leaguer In left. Collins stopping at scnaik tiled to strunk. Weaver Fournler. E. Collins to Barry. second. forced One run, two hits, no errors. SECOND INNING. Strunk singled to right. Mclnnls beat out a, hit to Bretton. Strunk stopping at second. Baker walked, and the bases were filled. Barry forcod Strunk at the plate, Wolfgang to Schalk. Schang singled to right, scoring Mclnnls. Shawkey forced Baker at the plate, Wolfgang to Schalk. Schalk hit Shawkey In the back trying for a double play, Barry scoring and Schang went to thlid On an attempted doublo steal Schang was out at the plate, Schalk to Weaver to Schalk. Two run, threo hiti, one error. Schang threw out Roth. Bretton filed to Strunk. Wolfgang filed out to Strunk. No runs, no hits, no eirors. INNING. Walsh also fanned. Roth. No runs, no THIRD Murphy fanned. E. Collins filed to hits, no errors. Demmltt walked. Blackburne sacri ficed, Shawkey unassisted. J. Collins fanned. Fournler lined out to Barry No runs, no hits, no errors. FOURTH INNING. Strunk rolled out to Fournler. unas sisted. Mclnnls lined to Demmltt. Baker out. Blackburne to Fournler. No runs no hits, no errors. Barr and, Mclnnls retired Schalk eavcr out, B. Collins to Mclnnls. Roth fanned No runs, no hits, no errors FIFTH INNING. Barry walked. Schang aacrifled, Black burne 1,-i Fournler, Shawkey fanned. 4 Concluded oa Pace Is Centres of tho bitterest fighting In France today are Verdun and along the OIso and Alsno Rivers, German forccihave captured Varenncs, west of Verdun. The Allies claim slight gains in tho enveloping movement against General von Kluk. English reinforcements are being rushed for ward to strengthen tho Allies' left. Terrific bombardment of the Verdun Toul line of forts continues. Belgian forces defeated the Germans in a sharp encounter near Antwerp, says the Belgian official statement, and forced them back toward Brus sels. A troop train was captured with 800 prisoners. Alleged peace proposals from Germany again were refused. Russians continue pursuit of the Aus trians in Gallcla, despite ceaseless rains and difficulty In traversing marshy land. Smaller fortified posi tions have been taken, opening tho way to the capture of Chyrow, an important railway centre. The Aus trian garrison at Przemyal made an Ineffectual sortie and were driven back to the fortress with great loss. The main Russian army is reported at Tarnow, midway between Cracow and Jaroslaw. Japanese troops, reinforced by British territorials, began bombardment of the German fortress at Tslng-Tao. The firing was terrific. A night at tack is expocted soon. Zeppelin airships are raiding coast towns along the North Sea, and Eng land fears an early invasion. A bombardment of Ostend last night was regarded as a preliminary move to an air attack on British towns. The Indian Prince, a British steam ship, is reported to have been sunk by the Kaiser Vv'llhelm off tho South American coast. French warships aro reported to have successfully bombarded three Austrian towns on the Dalmatian coast. German War Office reports the Ver-dun-Toul lino of forts is being bat tered to pieces by tho German siege guns, and the sorties of tho French have been repulsed. The official statement admits severe pressure against the right wing, but insists the Allies have madu no progress. The capitulation of Verdun is pre dicted when tho big siege guns ar rive from Metz. The capture of Varennes, east of Argonne, is an nounced, retrograd reports reaching the outer fortifications of Cracow. Repulse 1h announced of a sortie by the Przemysl garrison and continued pursuit of the Austrians along the River San. The General Staff ex pects stiff resistance at Cracow, as its occupation would Jeopardize the German positions In East Prussia and Silesia. The present Russian ob jective Is Chyrow, an important rail way centre. A winter march on Ber- lln Is planned to follow occupation of Cracow. Servian "War Office announces repulse of Austrians, who shelled Belgrade six hours. Victory, after bloody fighting, is reported on the Save and Danube, Austrian forces being re pulsed In an Invading movement. China, chafing at Japan's proposal to build n narrow guuge railroad for carrying war supplies to Klao-Chau, has mobilized troops in the northern coast provinces. Tho Government is anxious lest this become a perma nent line, following tho precedent of the Mukden. Antung line in he Russo-Japanese War. Movemeiit of the combined British and Japanese forces in an assault on Telng-Tao is exuerted this, woeitv PARIS, Sept. 25. French forts on tho right of tho long battle line underwent tcrriflo bombardment today. German force capturing heights on the Mcuse River, occupying Varennes and marching on St. Mihlcl. As a result of these successes, th Invaders now threaten Verdun on thrca sides. Tho Allies tried to relieve the pres sure along the Mcuse by attacking the, centre and by assaulting the railway Junction of Tergnier, defended bv General von Kluk. Tho complete official statement foN lows: On our left wing a general ac- 1 tlon of great violence Is proceed ing between that part of our forces which is operating between tho Somme and the Oise and the army j corps which tho enemy has gath ered in the region of Tergnier and St. Quentln. Some of these army corps come from the centre of tho ' enemy's line and others come from Lorraine and the Vosges. the latter . being transported by railroad to T" Cambral by way of Liege and Va- ' lenciennes. At the north of tho Alse as far as Berry-Au-Bac there has been no Important change In the situation. At tho centre we have advanced on the east of Rheims toward Berry and Moron-Vllllers. Farther to tho east up to the Argonne forest tho situation is unchanged. To tho east of the Argonne the enemy hns beon unable to debouch from Varennes. On the right bank of the Meuse he has gained a foothold on tha heights of the Meuse, on the promo tory of Hntton-Chattcl. and is pressing on In the direction ot St. Mlhlel. He has bombarded tho forta of Les-Paroches and Camp Des Romalnes. On the opposite bank, to the south of Verdun, we are mnsters of tho heights of the Mouse and our I troops, debouching from Toul, have) , advanced to the vicinity of Beau- mont. i On our right wing (Lorraine and the Vosges) we have repulsed soma unimportant attacks on Nomeny. To the east of Lunevllle the enemy has made some demonstrations on the line of La Vegoure and La Blette. The Important railway Junction town of Tergnier, on the Oise River, and commanding the railroad linen now t,o important to General von Kluk's army, which Is Intrenched In extremely Btrong positions In tho tri angle of the Alsne and Oise, was today the scene of a general French attack. The French, aided by two British army corps, were assaulting the Ger man positions here and along tho lln northward to the vicinity of St. Quen tin In a supreme effort to cut General von Kluk's communications. The War Oftlce admitted this, and It also ad mitted General von Kluk has been heavily reinforced by fresh troops sent down from Liege. The general position of the allied left gradually has been changing. Realiz ing the folly of sacrificing men in vain attempts to carry tho strongly em trenched positions that hava tho pro tectlon of the Aisne and Oise, thtj French and British commanders-ln chief are contenting themselves with subjecting these tranches to a constant bombardment. And with the bulk ot their forces available for further action they are driving a wedge against thtj German lines of communication. If they can break them. It will b possible to split the armies of General von Boehm, made up of the bulk of tho Germans withdrawn from Belgium and of General von Kluk. This will either throw the latter back on top ot General von Pjjelow'a army, which ad Joins su. jn -ajtt. or coraul Von Kluk Sv: