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. ^ '■'1 FR ID A Y , JU N E 15, 1917. ■ T H E E v e n i n g e n t e r p r i s e . ■ POUGHKEEPSIE, .N.Y. , 1 0 ' AUTO DIIEfTORY kVhere to Buy Your P o u g h k e e p s i e . Packard “Ask'the man who owns one” SOIiI> BY JOHX VAN BENSCHOTEN JO H N VAN BENSCHOTEN JOHN VAN Dodge Brothers SOIiD BY BENSCHOTEN ^ h a l i n ' ers BOIA> BY JOHN VAN BENSCHOTEN S M I T H F O R M -A -T R U C K A ttached to a FORD MAKES A 1-TO N TRUCK SOU) BY rAN BENSC] STORE YOUR GAR AT JO H N VAN ALWAYS OPEN BENSCHOTEN ACCESSORIES FORD The L a r g e s t A s s o rtm e n t in th e City. JOHN VAN BENSCHOTEN TTERY TRY VAN’S B A T I SERVICE B a ttery Service SE R V L E T US- PU T YOUR CAR I! R E P A IR ? OUR M EN ARE EX P E R T S . S E R U C E GUARANTEED. JOHN A^AN BENSCHOTEN TIR E S R E P A IR E D BY' EX P E R IEN C E D MEN, Try Us and Be Convinced JOHN VAN BEySCHOTEX USED CARS OF EXCEPTION AL Y'ALUE. 'all and Look Them Over. F o r a Van Cab Co. Taxi& m i VAN’S BAGG.YGE TRANSFER 7’TVONE -- ------------------------- - 1220 Ride a Bicycle ft will improve your health Save you time and money. ; IV E R JOHNSON, PIERCE — AND ~ RACYCLE BICYCLES. Require least repairs, and cost least to main tain. Sold in Poughkeep- GINDELE’S “The Store of all outdoors” 354 Main Street, Poughkeepsie. THE EXCELSIOR AUTOCYCLE THE LE A D E R OF ALIJ, MOTORCYCLES. See t at 237 Main Street. ED W AR D RY AN . MANY WEffiEND BASEB^GAMES High School, Alumni, Vanderbilts, H. R. S. H, Polhemus A. C. and Mill'brook Teams in Action. Three w e ek-end ball gam es are of fered the local followers of the dia^ raon’d game. S a turday in this city the ■High School and Alximni nines clash in their annual gam e at Riverview Field: Sunday e t iHyde P a rk the V a n derbilts and H. R. S. H. 'team will play and the sam e day the Polhem us A. C. will journey to M illbrook for a retu r n game. HIGH , SCHOOL-ALUMNI The Hsigh School-Alumni clash prom ises to be a red hot contest. The “old tim j s” have rounded up a fast aggregation ,and the Blue and W h ite will have to go all the way to ca the honors. “Jim ” Purdy arid •Daioy will be a t points Avhile H-eAvlett and Cooke will toil for the schoolboys. The Vanderbilts -H. H. S. H. con test will be played for the benefit of the Red C ross Fund. “Rube” DeGroff will lead the 'Hyde P a rk nine. The M illbrook-Polhem u s game should b§ worth seeing. The team s clashed on Sunday last and the locals came through with the long end of a 6-.1 score. “‘5’ank” Robinson a n l Houck will be the b a ttery for the locals. RMRSfflES WIN SMOOT I Syracuse, N. Y., June 15—The R iverside Gun Club, of Rochester, won the Dean Richmond trophy, fea ture event of the program at the fifty- ninth annual shoot of the New.Yoi-V State Sportsm e n ’s Association here yesterday afternoon. M embers wiivi shot w e re L. B. W est, A. C. S k u tt and L. D. Slade. George N. Irish, of Lyndonville, won the regular event at 150 birds with a m a rk of 148. He ran his first sixty ard his lest sevem y - five w ithout a miss. JACK BRITTON AD LEWIS IN CLOSEMTTLE Chicago Welterweight ELhd Englisihmau Divide Hondrs of Bout. 43 b o o t s , w i n n e r OF SUBURBAN CP- The w inner of the tu r f s greaxest classic this year Is Boots, th e great grandson of the w o rld-fam e d Firenze, was ridden by Jockey Loftus, and ran the mile and a q u a r ter in 2:05i/^ b e a t ing the F in n ,.th e popular idol. C.H.DEMAR IN MARATHON Boston, June 15— C larence H. Dr Mar w inner of two B rockton m arathon runs, holder of the Boston A. A. M ar athon record, made in ISll, and who finished third in t h a t classic this year, will com p ete in the modified M ara thon race, which i ^ t o be one of the features of the F ield Day and ‘C a r nival of Gaelic Sports of Suffolk County Board, A. 0 . H.. a t Russell Field, Cam b ridge, July 4. o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o Q B U R N S O U S T E D A S B A T - O TIN G L E A D E R IN NA- O TIONAL LEAGUE G ------------ C W a lter Cruise, of the S't. O Louis Cardinals, is again the G hatting leader in the National League, He supplanted George Burns, of the Giants, yester- gett O while the Giants’ star o u t fielder failed to get a h it in three tim e s at hat. As o-nly one game Avas play ed in 'the Am erican League O yesterday, the positions of the “(Leading F ive” were u n changed. Sisler was the only one of the pacem akers to play, and he failed to improve O fourth place. O IHere’s how the “Leadii O F ive” in the National 0 American Leagues stand. G Q National' League ^ C .O P-layer. ■Club. G A3B R H Av. O O iCrulse. &t. L. 47 IAS 23 S? m vG O (Burns, N. Y. 46 178 36 66’ .337 0 O ' Roush, Cln. 42 154 '23 52 .SB'S O Q Fischer, Pitt. 36 100 12 33 .330 © O Smith, St. L. 41127 20 41.323 C o --------- o O American League O O player, Club. G AB R H Av., © G ■Oohb, Det. 47 171 29 ftl .3S7 O O Speaker, Cle. 9 2 1«3 25 64.350 C O 'M lnnis, (Phil. 43165 13 53.321 G O 'Sisler. ®t. L. 47 1«9 16 59 .312 « O O W a 'b s’s, iCley. 94123 16 60.311 O O . o © © 0000© O O O Q O © © O Q O JOY HAS NO END OLD TOWN CANOE. ■• ' \ Life la as care-free as the water that carries you. All Is rjspose, mingled with recreation and tireless but beneficial exercise. Try an Old Town this summer. For sale fay ^ m OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Baseballaseball Resultsesults ° B R q o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. American League. S t. Louis, 3; Boston, 9. All other gam es postponed. National League. New York, 2; 'Pittshurgh, 0. St. iLouls, 5; 'Brooklyn, 4. iChicago, o; Boston, 2. Cincinnati, 6: pnuadelpliia, 5. International League. Rochester, 3; Buffalo, 0. Toronto, S; Montreal, 3. New York, June 15.—Jack B ritton ■ 'Chicago, recognized world’s w e l terw e ight chkmplon, and Ted Kid Lewis, the English boxer, meeting in the rin g last night fo r the twelfth, time, furnished a fair-sized crowd of enthusiasts a t the St. '.NicholaB A. C. w ith an interesting ten round draw. The willing aggr.essiveness of the English boxer and heavy blows to the head which he landed w ith tell ing force on B ritton in m any of the rounds, earned him an eTen break in the honors for the bout. B ritton, • iBaltimoT'e-Richmond while his style was n o t as spectacular or interesting, nevertheless managed to land the cleaner blows in the la,t- ter rounds of the bout. In fact after the first few rounds B ritton settled down to his task, and taking the lead aw ay from Lewis, forced him w ith a punishing attack to the stom ach. T h e Chicagoan, In cidentally, directed his efforts alm o st solely to Lew is’s stom a ch, and th e effects of this ham m e ring was p lain ly noticeably as the contest pro- ■essed, and Lew is slowed perOepti- y. Lew is earned th e second, third is; nil mainder were even. In the early stages of the bout B ritton was unsteady and wild and landed few effective blows, Lewis, carrying the fighting, aim ed blows for the jaw , b u t the m a jority w e n t wide or w e re taken easily by iBritton, who “rode\ w ith them . Quite a few blow.s were landed In the second, third and fourth rounds by Lewis, however, which shook up ithe titleholder and made him w a ry, but Lewis, while his das'hing style attracted the eye of the ipectator, was 'unable to get past Britton’s close guard with a clean, BAUGAME ^SUNDAY Browns and Yankees to Play for First En gineers. INew York, June 15—The F irst R e serve Engineer Regim ent, 1,170 strong, whicii is now training at Fort Totten, will attend th e patriotic band concert and hall game which will he held a t the Polo Grounds on Sundav ^ t e r n o o n . T h is will be the first of a series of concerts and ball games which will he held to create ^ fund for the benefit of the engineer regim e n ts soon to go to Franh*p. The plan was Protddence, 2; N ewark, 1. (F ir s t suggested by M essrs. R u p p e rt and game.) I H u ston, owners of th e Yankees, and Newark, 8; Frovidenee, 4. (Second has been indorsed by the American'' game.) fourth round s; B ritton -got th e fifth, sixth and n in th, and the re- g blow Bi really dam agin g Lewis was evidently som ewhat tired from his efforts in the first four rounds, and in the fifth B ritton took the lead. The Chicagoan found his rival a com p a ratively easy targ e t for heavy blows to the stomach, and •Britton sent these (home w ith both hands, m a k ing little of no attem p t to reach Lew is's face except w ith an occasional left hhttd jab. Ill tbC elxtb session the titleholder followed the sam e style of (boxing. 'His cleverness and m o re effective hitting, coupled with his coolness In the face of L ew is’s spasm o d ic rallies, earned him his share of honors, (Britton weighed 146 1-2 pounds and Le'wis 144 1-2 pounds. poned; rain. j American League. W. L. Chicago ................... 17 Boston ...................... 17 New York ......... . ,..‘..26 20 Cleveland ............... 2^ D e troit ..................... 25 St. Louis ................. 28 W a s h ington ........... 29 Philadelphia ................... 16 28 National League.' W. L. New Y o rk ............... 16 ■Philadelphia ........... 16 Chicago ......... .. .. .. .. .. 22 iSt. Louis ................. 22 Cincinnati ............... ....2 4 30 Brooklyn ................. 24 (Boston . . . . . . . . i... 24 'Pittsburgh ............. ■32 international League Providence ............. ....2 9 18 (Newark ................... ....2 7 17 B altim o re ............... 2'0 •Rochester ............... 20 Toronto ................... 20 Buffalo ..................... 30 iiA l i l League. The engineers will come from F o rt Totten on Sunday by steamer to I'oTihi '111 march Grounds. They will hold a parade street, and will march to the PoU the baseiball park,.led by the regimen-! tal 'band. Colonel M cK instry, com- m anding offic.er of the regim e n t, and .660 Colonel Jacob 'Ruppert ■completed .638 j tjjQ plans for the visit of the soldiei's .565 I y esterday. T h e M ilitary Cotnmittfe'e j of the U n ited Engineering .Societies of •457 x e w York, of which J . W aldo Sm ith is •417 Chairm an, and M ajor W. H. W iley is .383 treasurer, will have charge o f. th.3 .364 fund, which will he donated to this regim ent. The concert will be given by F rank’s Band of 100 pieces, during •which H a rry (Ellis will sing George M. Cohan’s new w a r song. “Over T h e r e ”. .4fter the concert the 9t. Louis and Y ankees players will give a m ilitary drill. Pet MIOR LEAGUES MAY SUSPED Chicago, June 15.—Suspension of th irteen m inor leagues o p e r a tlng-be- low Class A. ■felasslflcatlon, afte r th e F o u rth of July gam es, was urged by iPresldent A. R. T e a m e y of the T h ree I League last night in an ap peal to th e league’s executives, ask ing them to act concertedly. The w a r and the unfavorable w e a ther conditions will m ake this, action necessary, P resident T e a m e y believes. INDIANS BUY E. SMITH. W ashington, June 15. — Elm er Sm ith, an outQeldter, has been resold by the W a s h ington American? to the Cleveland American*. M o n treal .........................16 2' Richm o n d ...................... 15 3' GAMES TODAY. American League. St. Louis a t New York. Chicago a t Boston. 'Cleveland at Philadelphia. Detroit at Washington. National League. New York at iPitta'bmgn. Brooklyn at St. Louis. Boston at Chicago. Philadelphia a t Cincinnati. International League. T o ronto a t -Newark. Buffalo a t B altim o re. \ R o c h e ster a t Richmond. 'Montreal a t OProvidence. Eastern League. Law rence, 4; New London, 2. H a rtford, 11; Portland, 4. W o rcester, 3; New H a v e n ,'2. Brldgeport-iS'priniifield game loned; w e t grounds. American Association. Indianapolis, 2; Toledo, 1.*'^ K a n sas 'Clt,y 13; St. Paul, 7.' ■Milwaukee, 4;^ M inneapolis, .(F irst game.) M ilwaukee, 2; M inneapolis, ((Second game.) Cohupbus, 4; Louisville, 2. Southern Association. Chattanooga, ^6; A tlanta, 5. (New O rleans, 2; (Memphis, ■O. Birm ingham , 10; iNashviUe, 1. L ittle 'R'Ock-JMoibile game po poned; rain.) New York State League. Elm tra, 4; H a rrisburg,' 2. W ilkes-Barre, 5; Syracuse, 0., (Scranton, 4; Utica, 3. B ingham ton, 4; B eading, 0. FEDERAL IEA0JE MAGNATE OOSE 6ASEBAU surf Philadelphia, June 15.—‘Much of j y e s terday’s session of the U n ited ; S tates D istrict Court, w h e re the I $900,000 an t i - t r u s t suit X)f the B a lti- \ m o re F e d e r a l League club against organized baseball is being tried, was taken up w ith the hearing of te s t i m ony as to th e value of th e (Baltt- more club as a (business proposition ■t a the tim e the (Federal League ivent out Of existence, i August H e rrm a n n of th e Cl,nclnnati (National League club, testifying for the defenee as an expert on baseball \■ I franchise values, declared th a t “the lvalue of a franchise of a Baltimore (club in the F e d e r a l League” at the tim e the peace agreem e n t ■was m ade in Dcem b er, 1915, was n o t w o rth a j dollar. Asked as to how h e reached this conclusion, H e rrm a n n said th a t Uwo of the olu'bB in the league, B u f- |falo and K a n sas City, forfeited fran - ' chlses and th a t the league had ceased _ of i to be a going concern. ^ ’ On cross-exam ination counsel for Ithe B altim o re club w a n te d to know j_w'hj!?- If the Federal League was dead, organized baselb'all agreed to pay un der the peace agreem e n t large sums of m o r^y to a corpse. Counsel m en tioned the $400,000 ta be paid to the W ards of 'Brooklyn, $50,000 to the Plttaburgh Pederals, and other sums organized baseball agreed to pay F e d e ral League representatives: •Mr. H e rrm a n n replied th a t organ ized baseball entered this agreem e n t in order to restore public confidence and also to restore discipline among the players. The defence .closed Its case at the m o rning session afte r calling w itnesses to testify regarding the cost and size of various baseball grounds, H e rrm a n n denied he had ever asked David L. F u ltz of the players’ fratern ity to blacklist players who A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS I DESPITE THE WEATHER, CROWDS ACCLAIM ■ I (UARGUERTTE CLARK \ • IN HER SEVEN ACT PRODUCTION OF HER FAMOUS PLAY SNOW WHITE A Marvel of Youth, Fantasy, Drama, Comedy and the Love of life NO ADVANCE IN PRICES-lO c.™ ^^ LAST FOUR TIMES TODAY LIBERTY “ETOIE” PLANK BBTOTTHPAW IN THE (ME iNe^w York, June 15.—(Selecting the greatest southpaw*of all tim e In big league endeavor isn ’t a ' m a tter of gathering the dope on Babe Ruth, Ferdie iSichrupp, iPlank, Rube W a d dell, Doc W h ite and the others on down the list of off-hanfiers who have m ade baseiball history. Eddie P lank'undoubtedly has built him self a pedestal on which he stands p retty firm ly in a class by him self, but Wafiideil and White also attained Iieights any youngster would be glad to reach. W ith W addeli it w a s m o re of a joke than anything else, b u t his record Is so fine—^^his ability too pro nounced to be left out of a line of hurlers who have flashed a wonderful lot of stuff. It’Si hardly fair to say th a t Babe :Ruth is the game’s greatest left hander now, and it is ■equally unfair |o say th a t Ferdie Schupp of thel Giants is entitled to the palm. R u th has done rem a rkably well against N a tional league pitching, . .but Schupp never has had the chance t o , show w h a t he cqu M do against the A m eri can league kill'd. *'So th e re is ’ no chance for comparison. Doc W h ite was one of the chief ’faasons for th e W h ite Sox^champlon- ship in ,19'06. H e and Ed W a lsh be tween them m ade the Fielder Jones reputation. W h e n the two of them departed from Am erican league ways cham p ionships am o n g the W h ite Sox becam e very, very scarce. W a d d ell picked the A thletics alm o st by his own bootstraps and still was going g reat when he becam e a m em b er of the Browns. EHs gradual decline u n til-'h e found him self- N o rthern leaguer was ju s t as b ril liant. H e never did anything th a t didn’t sparkle. His eccentricities and u tter disregard of training rules sent him to the -minors an'd finally to his ^ U n d o u b tedly honors am o n g south- 'paw s should be equally distributed be tw e e n P lank end Wa-ddell, both m em b e r s of th e Athletics when in .th e ir prim e. , P I R ^ m BILL STEEE Pltts'b-urgli, June 1-5.—(Purchase of iRo'bert W. Steele, left handed pltch- from the iSt. Louis Nationals at the waiver price of $1,‘500 was an nounced here! last night by Barney (Dreyfu^s, president''.of the Pittsburgh NO TRUTH IN RUMOR ■New York, June 15—“There Is no tru th In th e rum o r t h a t Benny Leon ard has quit m e”, said .Billy Gibson, m a n a g e r of the lightw e ight champion. “Benny is now hard a t w o rk training for a bout w ith (Johnny 'Nelson, of :arlem Sporting He is a likely looking chap i by scribes of the Quakfer City. Philadelphia, at the Hs Club Mondi night”., Nelson arrived in town iterdp.v. comes here well recommend,ed-, b y the fistic cha p and c PIRATES TRANSFER BAIRD Pittsburgh, June 15—-Douglas Baird, ■Pittsburgh third baseman, has been soj'd to the St. Louis National Lea.gue ■Clkb for the waiver price of $1,500. jumped to the Federal League. Herr mann told the jury there was no rule in organized baseball ■which pre vented the Federal Leagjfo from pur- , H( h e Federal Lei chasing players from I minors. It s Made of Rubber W e Have It.” AUTO TKE WHEN YOU BUY TIRES AT THE RUBBER STORE YOU CAN FEEL SAFE Tires we handle aje only makes that have established all reputation. We do not experiment with a brand we kii.ow | nothing about. Ailing Rubber Company 268 Main Street THE ROBERT TRRAT Newark ’s New Palatial Hotel Directly on MUitary Park Open May 1916 Adjacent to all Railroad Terminals,. 'T’wenty Minutes to New York Gty Exceptional Show European Plan » 1 . S 2 per day * 2.22 300 Rooms Spedal rates for periods of from one month .to. one year A Metropolitan Hotel in all its appointments Conducted wiih the Idea to please the Commenial,Permanent and Tourist patronage Diroction, UNITED HOTELS COMPANY Muiaerement^ C H A R I^ A. .CARRIGAN This Is YOUR War As WeU As HIS ! No “slacker” he ___ he enlists and gives his life to defend you who cannot go. He fights for you and your fiamily as well as his. He has faith in you. He believes you -will at least stand behind him in his great safcrifice. He believes you as well as your rich neighbor will at least offer your dollars just as he is offering his life. Your Government needs your money, no mat ter how little. You’ve got to “do your bit” by lending your money at 3^/^ p e r cent, on the safest security in the world— the United States. Buy a Liberty Loan Bond. Buy as much as you possibly can—not as little. No charge for our services. POUGHKEEPSIE TRUST COMPANY POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y;. . : . was closely queslltm e d 'b y counsel, for the com p lainants on this p o in t Ibe imterprue^Foi^iikeeitsie’s Biggest tSoosterj
