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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1914
Page
6
The Atlanta Athletic Club golf championship will be the next prize for its golfers. The qualifying round is Saturday with scratch qualification and multiple flights. First flight match play uses no handicap in finals of thirty six holes, other flights eighteen. Expect a large entry list for Saturday afternoon tee off with at least five flights.
Mobile Gulls manager Briscoe Lord is undecided about plans for the 1915 season. He notes no definite answer has been given by Mobile owners while he considers an attractive business proposition. He may return to the Mablig club or not, with a decision due in ten days. He says if he stays in baseball it will not be with the Federal league.
The Crackers have shown an improved brand of baseball in the last thirty games with 18 wins, 12 losses, and 0 ties. Despite half the games being away, this run would put them well in front if sustained all season.
Nearly 400 sentries have been drawn for the annual Amateur Athletic Union track and field championships to be staged in Baltimore Friday and Saturday. The junior events Friday include 124 entries and the seniors about 205 entries. The meet features top athletes from across the country with many prominent names such as Ted Meredith Mel Sheppard Bert Coleman and Richards. Delcombre from the South is also listed in the field for high jump and javelin.
The University of Georgia released its football schedule listing games in Athens Sewanee Atlanta and Charlottesville. Key dates include October 3 Citadel in Athens October 10 Sewanee in Sewanee October 17 North Carolina in Atlanta October 11 Mississippi A and M in Athens November 7 Clemson in Athens November 14 Tech in Atlanta and November 11 Auburn in Atlanta.
Sporting editor answers: Auburn Tech game to be played November 7. Other queries note Baltimore teams' Friday and Saturday opponents, Bankston sent to Cardell, and Kirby Knicely details pending further info.
Princeton New Jersey September 9 Princeton's 1914 season began as 25 candidates reported to Captain Ballin on Osborne field. Keene Fitzpatrick trainer and Wilder Graves Penfield head field coach led a light drill in kicking and passing. Coaches gave no firm policy details but promised radical changes, including probable elimination of the shift play that formed the basis of Princeton formations.
New York September 3 The Western Union Telegraph company announces the appointment of John C Willever as commercial general manager with headquarters in New York. Willever has long been involved in company management and recently left his post as secretary to develop the growing cable business in the United States.
A man identified as W. Hi Clark, believed to be from Marion, Ohio, shot a woman presumed to be his wife in a crowded downtown street and then killed himself. The woman appeared certain to die from her injuries.
A Tennessee driven campaign aims to substitute cotton bagging for jute in shipping cotton and other goods. Leaders including T W Martin and A P Morgan push for a nationwide cotton bagging association to secure orders from mills and shippers, with plans to form regional groups and a goal of one million bales converted. The movement cites lower cotton bag costs and homeward flow of profits, forecasting rapid uptake across southern markets and related industries.
J Ward Motte and Herbert L Kayton, leading naval stores men of Savannah, Ga, will travel to Washington to present a plan formed at a Montgomery conference. The plan aims to create a selling organization to control all naval stores sales and seeks Justice Department approval after talks with Senator Hoke Smith and other Southern senators.
An undated dispatch from American Consul Johnson at Ostend reports that Julius Von Hoe, American vice consul, intervened to prevent Ghent from being bombarded. The agreement halted German troops from entering the city, preserving Ghent from attack.
Testimony in Chief Magistrate McAdoo’s inquiry into rising food prices reveals that U S beef packers control Argentine output to suppress native beef prices. Jacob Bloch says packers dominate purchases, regulate territories, and force small dealers to buy from a single packer in many towns. He cites a 13 year beef shortage and a 16 million head cattle short, urging Congress action including a beef duty and open western grazing lands.
The Forsyth features Minnie Dupree in a one act sketch with Kingston and Bouts and Paul Conchos closing the main bill with audience engagement. Pearl and Goth perform ragtime, while Lew Dockstader headlines the next week with a vaudeville act and a large supporting cast. The Lytle run promises modern entertainment, appealing scenery and strong attendance as a sign of success.
The Grand Yanagement presents a viz-part feature adapted from Jack London. A young couple escapes sterns and confinement in a big town for the perplands of California. The romance is rendered with fine points and the feature opens a three day engagement with continuous daily showings from noon to 3:30 p.m.
Senate discussion centers on treating warehoused cotton as securities under the law. Proponents push increasing bank loan limits to ease currency needs amid cotton woes. Senator Shafer’s 80 percent amendment fails while McAdoo urged raising limits to 70 percent with warehouse receipts.
Washington and New York report the Federal Reserve Board considers approval of a pooling plan to raise 150 million dollars in gold through a syndicate of banks. The move aims to relieve the international exchange strain and fund obligations to Europe. J P Morgan met officials in Washington to discuss the coin fund.
The Ziornate Itella reports Anglo French torpedo boats in the Adriatic have been removing numerous Austrian mines. Three rows were found near Volovitza Cape and cleared. The note is dated September 9 and 5 66 a m Paris time.
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