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SIX Ync yENSACOLA JOURNAL , SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1920 c- JfJ ADVANCED geEaye a fifteen-tKousanddollar stoclc o$ tireimour, two stores. McGrawTires Havead-- 5 tHisadvance enables us to sell our tires at tHe old-prices. ffMcGraw. Tires are guaranteed for 6,000 miles and we make our own adjustments Here Iti Fjsk sacola, not Having to send atfimpcct tire to " the factory for replacement. T Our Tires are lower tKan btKers and our rep utation is behind every sale. Right at Ray's Hardware RigTtt at Ray's Member of Retail Merchants Association. AMUSEMENTS ft! II J! . . Pastime Thea tre Sunday. - J I v: Lome ov ' j n il i m Hr leased through Goldwyn nlng efforts resulted In the comple tion of this task in a week's time. But a half hour -was enough to burn them down. These are two of the most spectacu lar scenes in the new Ince production, "Dangerous Hour," which will be shown at the Isis theatre today. . An unusually dramatic story is- promised in this big picture, with the current labor unrest and the menance of Bol shevism as a background. Though the action is developed through a series of thrilling episodes employing hun dreds of people, a tender love story runs through the plot involving a young misguided visionary and his more discerning New England sweet heart. -v The featured players are Lloyd Hughes and Barbara Castleton. They are supported by a notable cast. The film is a Paramount Artcraft and was directed by Fred Niblo. PASTIME THEATRE Louis Bennison Needs No Gun. To Round Up Gang. "Dangerous Hours" Is Ince Spectacle With Many Thrills. Laborers worked for weeks recently on tha big Thomas II. Ince motion picture lot constructing a three-story brick building. On the very evening that the task was completed, the structure was deliberately bombarded and in a few minutes was a smoulder ing ruin, with the bodies of men and women strewn about under the debris. A few days later work was started on a block of frame buildings. Light- ' a "Soldiers-of Fortune" Novel by nichard Ilardtme: Da-vt Gripping-. Romantic. Spectacular An Allan Dwan Production Frearnted lTaj2oirer Phctopiar Corporation A IcaUrt l'ictara At the Isis Today and Tomorrow. Louis Bennison, In the role of a Texas ranger, dispenses beatings with a lavish hand to members of a des perate band cf cattle thieves before turning them over to the proper au thorities in his latest Betzwood pro duction, "Speedy Meade," distributed by Goldwyn, which comes to the Pas time theatre today. In his hunt for the desperadoes Meade meets with a pleasurable sur prise. While hiding in the woods to await the arrival of the robbers at this meeting place in a deserted moun tain shack. Speedy hears a woman's cries in the road and on Investigating discovers that the girl who is prowl ing about at midnight is Mary Dill man, a student in a convent school in his home city, whom he has grown to love. "With her assistance Meade is successful In trapping the band at the lonely shack, but not until he has laid five of them low with the drive in his powerful fists. The quintette spring at him as he enters the cave, but five lusty swings are all that is required to render the outfit hors du combat. His job com pleted, Meade sends for the sheriff and, while awaiting his coming. Mead a searches the crooks' clothes and In Dillman's pocket Speedy finds a docu ment that gives his sweetheart un bounded joy. Dillman, she learns, is not her father after all. the discovery prompting Mary to give Meade the happy "yes." -3 FULLERTON'S j SPRING DOPE j By HUGH S. FLXLERTON ' g . THE REGULAR TEAM STRENGTHS (Without Catcher or Pitchers.) American. Cleveland 8441 Detroit 8234 Boston S16S Chicago 81S7 New York z 80S2 St. Louis 79SS Washington 7S92 Philadelphia 7665 National. Cincinnati S221 Pittsburgh 8206 St Louis 8139 New York 8119 Chicago 7942 Brooklyn 7826 Boston '. ... 7809 Philadelphia 7728 Cleveland and CincJinatl. Ohio would have the World Cham pionship within ' her own borders if only the strength of the reguar teams exclusive of pitchers and catchers counted In baseball. The dope proves that the Reds, while not a great team, and while probably not now the best team, possess the best and the most consistent infield and outfield combination in the Na tional and that Cleveland is far and away the best In the American League. In other words, if the catching and pitching of Reds and Indians, is equal to that of the opposing teams, they will win. Unless we find a heavy handicap against them in the two most important departments of the game, we will have a Poor Lo (Red Indian) World Series next fall. However, as we have not yet studied the pitching and catching, and as pitching and catching are more than fifty per cent of the defensive game, we cannot do more now than concede that the reg ular organizations of these two teams are best. There is nothing like pure mathe matical dope, based upon the complete averages, fielding, hitting, base run ning, throwing, and a personal study of the speed of individuals, to show us the flaws in ball clubs. Ask any stu dent of the game off hand which team in the American League ranks closest to Cleveland in regulars, and probably not one In ten will claim that honor for Detroit. Tet the Tigers show second in the American League and Boston, a team considered by many as a goner, is there in third, with figures to back up the statement that the old infield and outfield organizations of these two clubs still remain dangerous. We have heard more this winter of the New York Yankees than any club in either league, yet the best the Yanks can show unless they improve their speed and strengthen third base and one outfield position, is to finish fifth in the dope figures, and at that they are nearly 200 points behind the Chi cago White Sox, who are supposed to be racketed to pieces. Plainly the weaknesses of Red Sox, White Sox and Tigers are not in the seven positions already studied. True, much of their figure strength is due to superiority of certain stars such as Collins, Weaver and Jackson. Mclnnis and Hooper, Cobb and Veach, and a 'great part of it is due to sheer slug ging ability. However, these things are given their proper value in figuring the dope, and the figures indicate the team strengths. The tremendous surprise to me lies In the National League dope, which, shows the Pittsburgh club only fifteen points behind the World's Champions, which means practically equal to the Reds in regular strength. It looks as if George Gibson has inherited from Hugo Bezdek the material with which to capture a pennant providing the pitching and catching figures stand up. Last year Pat Moran won with ma terial accumulated by Christy Mathew son. At that time Morans regular team figured second in strength but his pitching staff appeared wabbly and the dope indicated he would be lucky to finish in the first division. The de velopment of his pitching staff gave the Reds their championship. It. may f J ,n IvTl V v i K Mile. Margot Ladd, Who Will Dance at the Garden Theatre, Friday Night. be that Pittsburg may develop enough strength to carry through. With equal pitching the Reds, Pirates and Cards figure so closely together that it would require only a little luck to turn the tables. In this complicated doping the strength of a team depends not only upon the ability of its own players, but upon the strength or weakness of op ponents. A team with a weak pitching staff loses points. For instance there is one player who figures sixty points higher this year than he did last, mere ly because this year he will bat against the pitchers of the team he played with last year. The Cubs, as an in stance, show ninety points stronger in offensive strength than they would show If they had to hit against their own pitchers Vaughn, Alexander and Tyler, in say fifteen games, as other teams must do. Brooklyn, a team which has made surprising increases in strength, espe cially in attacking strength, now rates almost a tie with the Cubs in regular team strength. To analyze these figures roughly, let me explain Detroit will have to excel Cleveland about three per cent, in pitching and catching strength in order to have an equal chance to capture the pennant. The New York Yanks must excel about seven per cent, either by luck or superior pitching and catch ing. And so on through the entire list. In the next article we will study the American League catchers. Remember that catching is sixteen per cent of the entire defensive strength of a team, so that the . individual position values are becoming moro important. (Copyright, 1920, by the BeU Syn dicate, Inc.) PIGGLY VIGGLY SUES THOMPSON CHARGES INFRINGEMENT OF PIGGLY WIGGLY PATENTED SYSTEM OF SELF-SERVING. Chicago, April 2. A battle in court, hinging upon the right of a business firm to patent its method of market ing its produce, is imminent be- Hoffman as special master is to take testimony and report findings in fact and law. What the order really finds is that the G. F. & A. road has certain legal counter claims against the various railroads which are suing for freight balances, etc The freight claims are $160,517. The counter claims are $356, 376.10. It is now up to the G. F. & A. to prove it has the counter claims which are held legal if proved. Blount, Blount & Carter and Smith, Young & Leigh appear for the direc tor general. Watson & Pasco and Philip D. Beall are for the receiver and purchaser. tween the Piggly Wiggly corporation and the John R. Thompson Company, owners of rival chains of grocery stores in Chicago. The Piggly Wiggly company charges its rival with in fringement of its patents. K. W. Brad ford, attorney for the Piggly Wiggly company, has served notice on the Thompson firm that, if it continues to do business under its present plan, a suit for damages will be filed. The Piggly Wiggly corporation operates thirty-six groceries in Chi cago and similar stores in 138 cities throughout the United States. Its self-serving, cash and carry system of marketing groceries was originated by Clarence Saunders of Memphis, and has been patented from the be ginning. The Thompson company, headed by John R. Thompson, owns restaurants in many cities In the United States. It recently opened & number ot gro ceries in Chicago of a eelf-serving kind, using turnstiles and an arrange ment of aisles only slightly different from the Piggly Wiggly stores. It planned to establish these groceries In every district in Chicago. The Thompson company. It Is un derstood, had expert legal advice be fore entering the grocery business and holds that its stores are not an in fringement of the Piggly Wiggly pat ents. The coming suit win settle defi nitely a point of law Interesting to all business men everywhere. G. F. & A. WINS LAW DECISION OVER IIINES An order filed in the office of the clerk of the federal court yesterday, signed by Judge Sheppard before leav ing for Miami last TiuesOay, denies motions of the Director General of Railroads against the receiver of the G. F. & A. in certain suits for freight balances, demurrage and car repairs. The order provides that the parties to the suit file further pleadings be fore April 15, in default of which G. E. 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