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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1917
Page
2
The Postoffice Department issues a ruling limiting exemptions for postal workers. Carriers and laborers are largely excluded from exemption, as are clerks below specified salary grades. Railway mail clerks remain within the exemption class due to specialized duties.
A single American fern has provided the Allies on the western front with six thousand miles of barbed wire. The wire is a special military type, very heavy and strong and painted grim olive drab.
National League games listed for Philadelphia at Chicago, Boston at Pittsburg, New York at Cincinnati, Brooklyn at St Louis, with all clear. American League shows Chicago at Philadelphia, Detroit at New York, St Louis at Washington, Cleveland at Boston, all clear.
In the Southern League Chattanooga visits Atlanta for two games, Little Rock plays Mobile in a doubleheader, Memphis meets New Orleans in two, and Nashville travels to Birmingham for two contests.
Results yesterday show Pittsburgh 4 Boston 5 Chicago 2 Philadelphia 0 Cincinnati 2 New York 10 St Louis 2 Brooklyn 3. The action covered multiple venues with the Cubs and Reds posting notable outcomes.
Scores from yesterday show Cleveland over Boston 2 to 1, Chicago beat Philadelphia 4 to 0, St Louis defeated Washington 5 to 4, and Detroit routed New York 10 to 3 in league play.
Scores show Birmingham defeats Nashville 2 0 and New Orleans beats Memphis 3 1 as other games are postponed due to rain.
At Louisville Toledo won 8 to 0 while Indianapolis defeated Columbus 1 to 0 and Kansas City beat Milwaukee 6 to 2. Only three games were on the schedule.
In Rochester the Bulls lost 2 to 8, Toronto edged Montreal 12 to 11, Baltimore beat Newark 6 to 1, and Providence defeated Richmond 10 to 1.
A Times Square visitor, armed with rubber hose and a beer jug, tried to pour rye whiskey for a North Carolina brother. The bar refused, saying customers must pour their own drinks as he walked out with two gallons and hose trailing.
A correspondent recalls Phil Simms, now with the British Expeditionary Force, asking for a national subscription to buy 12 pairs of BVD shorts. He laments inadequate apparel for the battlefield, notes past improprieties, and asserts wartime limits on assistance.
A female newspaper captions writer drifts from personal femininity to a lonely routine. The piece portrays private losses behind public fashion work and echoes a Broadway ditty about one little girl driving men wild and changing lives.
The University of Pennsylvania will feature prominently on the firing line as American troops meet German forces. More than twenty Pennsylvania athletes have enlisted across branches, led by J. Howard Berry, former baseball captain, and Frank Dorsey, ex-track captain.
Marian Boneau-Davis recalls volunteers in Nancy France aiding refugees. She describes bombed homes, nurses and amputee children, and the need to help. The American Red Cross seeks 100 million dollars for direct aid to children and shelter programs.
London reports Sir Eric Geddes, newly named First Lord of the Admiralty, as the extraordinary figure who became an admiral and general in one move while a civilian. His career spans Scotland to the United States, India, tramways, and crucial World War I logistics in France and at the War Office.
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