aN 8 2 2 RARER RARRASRR ARERR. Draft Number 4612 on 2 oy SS ES By Victor Redcliffe BALL ABAARARRRRARRARRRRN sssnsssssssssssussssaand we Bo ot Sawn (Copyright, 1917, ‘Western Newupaper Union.) Ezra Banyon was clumsily built, but {mmaculate as to his attire. He was grude and self-centered, yet he was a prince of good fellows, according tp his favorite boon companions, and very {iberal with his money when with the girls, Ezra had come to Woodville, the heir of a local merchant who had left Juite a property. About all that Ezra did was to collect the revenue from the same, “My principal is to get the best go- ing, when you have the cash in hand to do it with,” vaunted Ezra, “and I like to be popular. When I settle down I’m going to bulld the swellest house possible and marry the prettiest girl in the district.” “That means Esther Brill,” suggest- ed Ned Wheaton. “Just right,” suavely smiled and nodded Ezra. “Interested in that di- rection yourself, I hear?’ he added, turning to another member of the group, Clyde Norton. “Miss Brill has my most respectful regard,” observed Norton, in his quiet, dignified way, and walked from the spot, to indicate his disapproval of dis- cussing Miss Brill in public. “Norton will stand little show if I start in,” vaunted Ezra, twirling the hand that bore a preposterously big diamond and complacently jingling a fot of gold coins In his pocket. “It's money that talks, fellows, and I'll make it speak loud when I go courting.” “You've got the grand idea right enough,” observed Ned, but winking at the others and not loth to working up Ezra to buy the dinners for the crowd. All of which through various inter- mediate channels reached the knowl edge of pretty Esther Brill, and set her thinking. She resented the boorish implication of Ezra that she was to be “Is—is-—4612, my number, among them,” questioned Ezra, ln a dry, cracked tone. “Don’t know, Unlucky numbers those—they figure up 13. I'll see, Here you are,” and Ned opened the newspa- trembling, panting, wild-eyed, rotation. sands,” directed Ezra In quavering ac- cents, “All 308," Ezra took heart. two in rotation, 4612." Another four, pled sideways, “lI can't go! tered. “Oh, awful fix. I'll pay $5000 for exemption. He nearly fainted. “Dangerous! Treason! Hold on, “Two; three!” cried Ezra eagerly. “Only get it done” “I've got a scheme,” declared Ned, week. I'll do the rest.” acolyte visiting the métropolis next Ned's scheme was simple, if In- famous. He had a crony who was a The latter, well bribed, im- he could fix up his teeth so that no recruiting board in the world would accept him for service. It cost Ezra eight teeth and $500. He would have to “gum it along” for the future, but what cared he, so that the offensive smell of powder did not assall his delicate nerves! His jaws became swollen, not enjoy his food, teeth made him look older, but Ezra bore this martyrdom with patience, With Ned he returned to Woodville one morning to report to the examin ing board. As he entered the pres- ence of the chief examiner Ezra blurt. ed out: “I want to make claim for exemp- tion. You see—" “No need,” sharply snapped the offi- cial keenly glancing over Ezra from top to toe. “You're the werst speci men of flat feet I ever saw, Exempt Next!” Ezra Banyon could have danced for He pathetically eyed Ned as they outside, however. The latter grinned. There was a spice of diabol- {sm in the grimace, for at heart Ned despised his craven employer. “Ned,” observed Ezra dismally, need not have sacrificed those lars!” Now that the mental suspense was over, physical realization asserted it Those swollen gums became a Ezra sneaked back He could came or © mo the city. “Infection,” crisply reported the as he examined Ezra's mouth “I fear you are going to have a time Skip Everything But the Four Thou- | sands. fought like a plece of furniture, or an | overcoat, on whim, and cheaply. Her | pulses quickened momentarily as she | thrilled at an appreciation of the rever- | ent chivalry of Clyde Norton. She wag | fiot thinking of a husband, not even of | a steady beau, but, looking ahead, she i had her ideal, and Ezra did not fill it. The young people of Woodville were thrown a good deal together of late. The war was the one regnant theme of interest and exeltement, and the loy- al little town was not backward In demonstrating its patriotism. There were home guard, Red Cross, protection, defense and all kinds of societies form- pd, while the eligible young men of the place organized to drill, prepara- tory to moving to the front when the call came, It eame, the eall, Clyde Norton vol- anteered, half a hundred with him. Ezra waited for the draft. In the meantime none was more eloquent us to devotion to the cause. It was In money contributions to the ladies’ so- cleties that Ezra shone. Policy or lib erality, he fairly overdid himself. In private life, however, along with his close chum and tondy, Ned Wheaton, Ezra was a cowering, crestfallen cra- ven, filled with anxieties and fears, “I can’t enlist, P'm not made for war- fare,” he told Ned pathetically. “There's a way ont,” suggested Ned, “What is 1t?” “Get married.” “They'll call me a slacker.” “Let them. What do you care, if It keeps you out of service.” Thenceforward Ezra studiously, se lously courted Esther. He made little progress, Somehow, the clever young lady, while all smiles and full of pretty winning ways, evaded any opportunity where he might declare his unbounded love, . Ezra was quite prostrated the day he fad to register for the draft. Then snsued to him the soul sickening suse pense of awsiting the announcement of the draft numbers, Ned rushed into thelr room- one afternoon waving a city newspaper, “Just got it at the train” he an- pounced. “First 2,000 numbers drawn.” Which verily Ezra did. For a full he was Ianced, poulticed, During the Interim he had go about disseminating his sen The country he loved had fant services! Eager nation’s foes, he was But could de his bit. He sent to the local Red He askéd permission to head the home guard. His time, his means were at the disposal of the land of the free and the home of the brave! Ezra reached his home town after dark. He wished it go, for he had quarreled with Ned, whom he had re fused a loan, and who had left him significantly hinting about knowing a good deal that would be great scandal food for the Ezra wondered if Ned had betrayed him. He would his way and call upon. Esther. He would flash upon her the star he wore, entitling him to act in "asso ciated secret service work” for the government, He would display the glittering red, white and blue pin he wore, made up of rubles, diamonds and sogpphires, The local paper should chronicle a big subscription to the sol- diers’ families fund with the morrow. battle the st he gossips, home, a dozen uniformed men brass instruments under their arms flashed by him in three automobiles, “Who are those fellows?” question- ed Ezra of a bystander. “Woodville Company A,” came the prompt response, “They're going down to the Brill home to serer ss Clyde Norton and his bride, Just Tartied, He's Captain Norton, now.’ Ezra Banyon returned to the depot. He sneaked back to the city, hiding In the darkest corner of the smoker, Wrathily he reckoned up the cost of his exemption tactics. He could | not grind his teeth, for most of them | were gone, feet In rage—they were too flat. He could only glare, and mumble, and heart and In verity—a “slacker.” Chinese Ambulance. One of the rensons why the people | of the Occident are generally disposed | to agree with Bret Harte that “the | heathen Chinee is peculiar” Is thelr unusual method of handing the sick. For iostance, their ambulance Is cer tainly a strange conveyance, It is of wicker basketry of the same type as that used for ervylng pigs and poultry to market. Crude 2s this type of conveyance seems, no: rubbertired automobile could travel with less jolt ing. The carriers work in relays, going slowly and resting at intervals.~Popu- lar Science Monthly, TAP St IE = ry Hashimoto, the J panying illustration, in the Olympic is shown in the accom- iT and for 25 miles 2:82:48. Picked Up for Small Sum-—Col. fins and Speaker Costly. If you were a baseball manager, vince All Concerned-—Was Rat. tiing Good Fielder. Billy SBunday, the evangelist, qnee der, lins? or Tris Speaker and Eddie Col- swer, but any time you had to sheil out the dough for players with liberal hand that the Chicago and Cleveland clubs did for Collins suf Speaker you would think a long tizae. Spe aker cost the Cleveland club in the neighborhood of $55,000, the “ig- » » | ! Collings was sold to Comiskey for a cash sum sald to have been $50,000, The Great Alex cost the | by Detroit for the same amount of money. Looks like Cobb and Alex are the pair carrying the greater value with them, yet they cost only one tenth as much as the present ers” of Collins and Speaker paid out to secure a title to their services, “own. 1800, that he got John McGraw and Christy Mathewson | Dismissed by Police Judge, Who Praises Their Act. Declaring that instead of being sume moned into court to answer to a charge of violating the Sunday law, should be commended for rendering service to a patriotic cause, Court Magistrate MeQuald dismissed summonses against John manager of the New York Nationals, and Christy Mathewson, manager of the Clocinnati Nationals, The baseball managers conducted a batedall game on a Sunday, at New York, for which no fee was charged, which was fol- lowed by a concert, to which admission was asked, the proceeds going to de pendents of a regiment that is soon to go to France, Ten Thousand Spectators Watch Game Between Canadian and American Teams in London. In spite of thé war, in spite of all that the war means, 10,000 spectajors recently watched a baseball game in London between Canadian and Ameri- | can teams. The same afternoon 5,000 witnessed another baseball game be- tween the London Americans and the Epsom Military Hospital team-—-15,000 Londoners watching American baseball {on a single afternoon! Since game after game has drawn crowds ranging | from 5,000 to 7,000, to COACH HARVARD RUNNERS Edward Farrell } Has Been Appointed Successor to Alfred Shrubb, Holder of Distance Marks. Alfred Shrubb, holder of the world’s | distance pecords, no longer will coach the Harvard cross-country tenia, It | has been announce : from Cambridge that Edwara k. ive, ooe-tisie conch | at Wakefield (Mas) high school, who instructed the Urimson weight men last year, has been appointed Shrubb's successor, LL A———————————— Rowland Refused to Fake, Manager Roan of the White Sox was offered $1,000 by an New York syn. diente to allow the use of his name over a series of articles on the world's series and given to nnderstand quite plainly that he wouldn't have to write \ a line, Rowland declined with thanks, » i | ‘| Billy Sunday. his chance—and failed. It | fifth inning Phillies and was the Pirates, twirling for team. Hurd started the but was batted out of the box first inning. Then Pittsburgh game, the the work for three innings. He, too, flfered severely, and in the fifth Jilly Sunday stepped Into the box and hand at pitching. The first man who faced him walked: the sec ond hit out for a three-bagger, hird for a double and the next was hit by a pitched ball and base, That was enough. day was gently but firmly taken out again for the National league. day was a rattling good fielder,” records of the day say, “but he demon- not a pReher,t FOOTBALL PLAYERS AT CAMP Jimmy DeMart and Andrew Hastings, Two Great Backfield Stars, With Hospital Corps. Jimmy DeHart and Andrew Hast. ings, star football players at the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh, and conceded to be two of the greatest backfleld men in the higtory of the sport, are at the ambulance camp at Allentown, Pa, with the Pittsburgh base hospital corps. James Morrow, the University of Pittsburgh fullback, also has en- tered the service, By winning a letter in each of the four major branches of spurt, football, baseball, basketball and track, DeHart won for himself the distinction of being the only man to accomplish such a feat in the his tory of the university. Figures in Crucial Games. It was Jake Northrup, then pitching for Louisville, who won a crucial game in 1018 for the Colonels end put In- dignapolis out of the race. And It was the same Northrup, this time pitching for Indisnapolis, who beat Milwaukee in the game that made Indianapolis safe, From War to Football, After six months In the ambulance service on the European front, CC. H. “Boots” Guy, last year's center on the Wishington and Jefferson football team, has returned and donned the moleskin, New Regulation Tried and Found Wanting at. Midlothian, Rule Instituted as Result of Examples in Western Tournament Needs Further Trial—Works Well 43 in Medal Play. RE The new rule of the Western Golf association, abolishing’ stymies, was tried and found wanting at the West- ern amateur championship at Mid. lothian, and the rule was changed by Chicago by the narrow margin of 1 up in 36 holes, The rule, as announced mies, nearer ball, and an average of 15 min: utes’ time was taken off an 18-hole players, since they were contesting the fleld instead of one man. When the match play started, however, the con- testants were loud in their clamor for a change in the rule and President Charles F. Thompson, agreeing with the players, had a new one drafted. The new one still abolishes stymies, whether due to the faulty play of the owner of the stymied ball, or to the accidental position of his opponent's ball, but requires the ball further from the hole to be played first, unless a stymle exists. In that case, the nearer ball is to be played first or lifted, at the option of its owner. The rule reads: “When both balls are on the put- ting green, if the player of the ball furthest from the hole claims that the nearer ball Miterferes with his putt, the nearer ball, upon request, "" tion of its owner. to the original rule that the playing of the farther ball first removed some the opponent to know just what he had to do after thé other man had holed out and made the owner of the nearer ball play from two to three shots in rather rapid succession. In the finals at Midlothian only one partial stymie was ald during the 38 holes, Ouimet lifting his ball on the e, while Edwards putted. It however, that Ed. his poor putting on the nine, would have had to play three putts In a row, while Oulmet stood by and determined just what he and how to do it. That was because Edwards was frequently flag on his a dead, vards, with first pproaches, but or get down from hig first attempt. As the play went, It could have no harm to play the first, for he took 22 putts first nine, when only 15 were indicated by his long game and ap- proaches, which were In general bet. to Contribute to Fund for Suit- able Monument. NEW YORK. — Rye—Firm; No. 2 Western, $1.87% ¢ | £ New York. Corn-—8pot steady; No. 2 yellow, $2.02; No. 2 mized, $2, ¢ 1 f New York. Oats—8pot steady; standard, 66%ec. Butter — Creamery higher than extras, 43% @44%;. do extras (52 score), 43% @42%; firsts, 41% @43; seconds, 40, Eggs—Fresh gathered 46; extra firsts, 42@ 44%: 42; seconds, 37% @59; State, vania and nearby Western whites, fine to fancy, Pennsylvania and 50@ 05. Cheese—State, specials, lo, average run, 23% @ 24. Live Poultry — Chickens, 20¢ 20@23; turkeys, 450 , YQ Pennsyl hennery E5@068; State, nearby hennery extras, firsts { real, AY; 9; 29. PHILADELPHIA. Whe: standard inspec $2.27; No. 1 soft $2.24: No. 2 soft $221; No. 3 $2.17; No. 4 sc ve reiatiy red, red, red, red, $2.22; No. 3 , 32.19; No. 4 ed, $2.15; white price red. (Mixed 2 iT) No, 5 wheats, red or soft, and sample” will bp L In no case poft red as y, 21@23 Pekin ing 19@21; Run keys to quali ducks, ner, 19@29; s wo 26; guineas , S0c@ll; «a8, old, per per pair, r, 200U4 cked creamery, Lira, 4% OQ 3%: sec ts, fancy, £ ts, 4@ of vi Les Darcy. fund which is being raised to erect a memorial monument to the dead box» er in West Maitland, N. 8. W, DRAFT THREE BEST CATCHERS Frank Crossin, Frank Fisher and Joo Haddock Answer Call to Colorses Waived Exemption. The call to the colors under the new army draft will take three of the best catchers in the New York State league in the first grab. Frank Crossin, the brilliant young recelver who the other day quit the Scrénton club when he was recalled to Loulsville of the Amer. fean Association, left to join that club August 9, after being examined In his home district in Luzerne. He passed the tests with a high a and waived all exemption. Frank Fisher and Joe Haddock, the two cutchers of the Blfalra team, were also examined, and both accepted for service. They made no claims for xegtion, 3 kg Maryland, Penns 42¢;: Western, 42; Southern, 41. Live Poultry-—Chickens, ibs and over, 23@24c; small to medium, 22; Leghorns, 22; old roosters, 14@ 15; do, springers, large, 23; do, da small to medium, 23; do, do, white Leg horns, 22; ducks, young Pekins, 3% iba and over, 22@23; do, do, puddle, do, do, 23; do, do, smaller, do, do, 200 21; geese, nearby, 1920; do, West ern and Southern, 17@18; turkeys, young, 7 Ibs and over. 28; do, old, 28; pigeons, young, per pr, 29; do, old, do, 20; guinea fowl, young, 1% Ibs and over, each, 45; do, do, do, 13 Ibs aver age, do, 35640; do, do, do, smaller, do, 2530; do, do, do, old, do, 30035. Potatoes — Western Maryiand and Pennsylvania, choice round, $1409 1.50; do, long, do, $1351.40; New York and Jersey, $1.40@ 1.50; Eastern Shore and Virginia, $1.25@1.40; New York and Jersey, per 50-1b sack, $3.50 new, native, per bu box or bakt, $1.25@1.50; culls, medium and No. 2s, per bu, 5c G $1. Ivania and nearby, West Vip n old hens, 4 do, old Lens do, do, white do, Live Stock KANSAS CITY, MO.—IHogs-Bulk, $18@17.25; heavy, 816.750 17.40; packs ers and butchers’, $16.50@17.75; light §15.50@16.50; pigs, $14.75015.26. Cattle~Prime fed steers, $1550Q 16.75; dressed beef steers, $11@15; Western steers, $8@12.50; Southern steors, $8.76@11; cows. $5.50(9.25; heifers, $450@12; stockers and feed:
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