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'Farmers Will 1 the Cubs Drew to Standings with a National Chicago up Definite Purpose in View, in Within Six of the Contrast .429 ... .I.MM.•##.).I.§#•#.I.|.I.|.|.11 CARDS HAUL Modern Physical Education Is Developing MANY BLOWS Book Autos Take Leadership And Building Strong Bodies Try reversing the IN SLACK ON ARE HADE IN Service old game— Library 1 CINCY REDS MAS LOOP To Rural People GIVE DAD Only Half a ___ A Game Be- Buffs Get 12 Hits and CHECK! thind WASHINGTON, tAb—Library ser- tral establishment end more Iban ! Loop Leaders; 300 in communities »na Win 7-2; Spudders, vice. the nation's second line of edu- branches schools to serve about 409.000 indi- .the kind of It Yankees Defeat the cational defense, is expanding rapid- check Waco, Dallas Also viduals. The Burlington county li- ly in ruril as we mean is Browns By 4 to 3 sections tlie farming brary in New Jersey aenda out not even better population takes of fanli- only books, but pictures, films *n<l Cop Hitting Frays advntage than money . it’s the ties placed at its disposal. phonograph records for distribution (By The Associated Press.) new the Associated among 135 branches in stores, grange gray check ... " ith each the (By Press) The new service it to farm- spe- passing day triumph- going Homes. About 60fl ant The halls and farm song of the Red Birds of St. big guns cut loose along the ers through state extension librar- books are distributed daily to va- cially fashioned for U3 I Louis—a symphcny of base hits— Texas front league Thursday as the ies. membership-fee libraries, muni- rious branches in Coaboma county, and rings more plain.1 y upon the ears of featured this week sluggers in nearly every game re- Mississippi, which has a population National league pennant contenders. cipal. school-district, township, com- to the recent of only 41.511. as “Miss America’* His staaf in plied challenge of the and pitching again working munity countv libraries, and “Rural libraries.* Nason says, order. Bill McKechnie who once man- pitchers with a barrage of base hits. books are being made easily acces- “naturally grow out of the demand aged the Pirates to the Several pitchers turned in good ac- Pittsburgh' sible by use of the mail and auto- for efficiency in agriculture. Effi- at pennant and then to a world’s chajn- counts but must fared none too well. mobiles. Manv of the county librar- ciency and satisfaction are the key- pionship, has the Cart'inals headed in The Houston Buffs, leaders of the ies are making use of the “book notes of successful farming of the the same general direction. loop, were handiest with their bats, automobile.'* hich Has replaced the future. The Cincinnati Reds still were at drove out twelve safeties off Phillips j; old horscdrawn “book wagon." first “The farmer also needs and wants tht v ip of the heap Friday but their of Beaumont, and defeated the Ex- used in Washington for advantage over St. Louis had shrumk porters, 7 to 2- Lindsey held the Ex- county. Mr., in facilities for general culture and 1905. to carry the service to a to half a game. porters to seven Mattered blows and direct larger, richer and more varied life. the farm homes. The Reds lost ground Thursday recorded his thirteenth victory of the Along with efficient farming, and Wayne 0. Nason, assistant agricul- perhaps as a product of it, should go j when they were washed out by lain season. tura economist of the at Philadelphia while the {/ardiuals Waco and San Antonio staged a department of a contented farm people and a satis- agriculture, in a new were making it four in a row over the contest full of lusty hitting with the bulletin on fying farm life. The desire for fi- this Boston Braves, 3 to 2. BotVoraley’s former having the edge in total educational phase of rural life, nancial reward may spur efficiency, describes the triple and Hafey’s following home bingles. eleven to ten. The Cubs got book automobile as but only happiness and contentment “an important run in the ninth were the decisive three runs in the first frame, but adjunct cf library ser- can maintain it. vice to blows. It was St. Louis’ 12th victory I Slim Love tightened up while the rural communities, especilly “Education is an important factor in in 15 games and the Braves’ seventh Bears made their hits frequent and connection with county libraries." in efficiency. Through education “It is a reverse in their last eight. U mpire timely, and San Antonio won, 6 to 3. means of transporting farmers e an make themselves ade- books Pfirman was the elusive target of a Wichita Falls had their hatting from the central library to quate to the solving of the perplex- pop bottle barrage laid down by Bos- eyes working defeating Fort Worth, branches, stations, schools and indi- ing problems confronting agriculture vidual farm ton fans after Rogers Hornsby had 4 to 2, and administered his first families, and a means today. Here is the /rsat opportunity of their been ejected from the game for pro- I defeat of the season to the veteran return. It also transports of the library.” the testing a third called strike. Paul Wachtel, one of the Cat pitching centrl librarian in her visits in The New’ York Giants are finding aces. these places. Manv county librar- MISS WILLS WINS ies the Western clubs as to Dallas Steers defeated Shreveport, are giving very gcod just tough Physical training in schools, once without definite now is country j object, highly organised and designed to de- •» book heat at the Polo Grounds as they were I ! to 3, in the first game of a double service through the mails and WIMBLEDON. England. June 15.— velop leadership, inspire confidence and build Ethel west of the Still smsrt- strong bodies, says Bowers (inset of Brenau col- I header, and the Louisiana men took by other methods of (JP)—Miss Helen Wills defeated Mrs. Alleghenies. j a in transportation, lege, leader the work. Ruth Mathis of Hall is a the 13 to 0. hut the ing under the sting of three beatings (lefti, Woodbury school, product of the new second, book automobile makes pos- M. Holcroft Watson of England. 6-1, j in which from the Reds, McGraw’s men found I training, basket ball and other athletics are employed. sible a more equal, complete and 6-2. today in the second singles the Pittsburgh Pirates no more Jo | regular service to country people.” match of the Wightman Cup tennis their liking, the Corsairs pulling out I * By ETHEL BOWERS As an example, he cites the Lcs competition after Mrs. Molla Mal- Angeles a 4 to 3 victory in 11 innings. Paul HOW LEADERS county library, which oper- lory of the American team had lost Director of ates two Waner’s single in the eighth tied the Physical Education. automobiles that average the first match to Miss Eileen Ben- aftei * Ihfl miles score and his sacrifice fly. Brenau College. ARE STANDING each day between the cen- nett. 6-1, 6-3. Sparky Adams had tripled, accounted GAINESVILLE, Ga. — — Physi- for the winning run. cal education today means activity 'farmers will 1 The Cubs drew to Standings with a National Chicago up definite purpose in view, in within six of the contrast .429. percentage points TEXAS LEAGUE to several years ago when Batting. Callaghan, Reds. Giants by taking over it meant with little Runs, Cards, 52. third-place Thursday’s Results only activity Rottomley, Brooklyn, 7 to 3. thought to educational values. Runs batted in, Bissonette, Robins, Houston 7. Beaumont 2. The New York Yankees maintained Now the influenca of physical ed- BE IN HOUSTON 50. what has been Wichita Falls 4. Fort Worth 2. 91. their wide margin in ucation reaches almost every pha*e Hits, Douthit, Cards, with San Antonio 5, Waco 3. railed the American league race, of a Doubles. Frisch, Cards, 18. * Dallas child's life. The pre-school 3 over the 5-0. Shreveport 3-13. 8. t hard fought 4 to triumph child's health and recreation are be- Triples, Walker, Reds, Lazzeri’s Friday’s Schedule Farm Aid Flea To Be Ft. Louis Browns. Tony ing supervised by city, playground Homers. Hornsby, Braves, 13. in the third Houston at San Antonio. 14. i homer with two on and park officials. All during the Put Before Stolen bases, Frisch. Cards, to be the blow that gave Herb Beaumont at Waco. Dems, Pitching, Benton. Giants, won 10, proved school life of a ch’ld this training is 29 x Pennock his 10th victory of the year. Shreveport at Fort Worth. lost 2. 4.40/21 Team— provided for him. in school and out. Leader firestone runs in the en- W. L. Pet. Says American Three eighth inning winter and summer. Under direc- Athletics to Houston 46 19 .708 .427. abled the Philadelphia tion and “on is own'' the Batting. Gosltn, Senators, Fort Worth child is KANSAS CITY. June heat Cleveland. 9 to 8, and keep pace . 38 23 .623 15.—t.Tb—De- Runs, Ruth. Yanks, 60. GIFTS that into a DAD developed strong healthy eiti- with the Yankees although at a dis- Wichita Falls.34 30 .531 feated in their to the Runs batted in. Ruth, Yanks, 56. j zen. attempt write creet distance to the rear. Shreveport 31 34 .477 Hits, Manush, Browns, 79, The modern young man is train- equalization fee principle into the Washington w’on its seventh vic- Waco . 29 37 .439 Doubles. Speaker, Athletics; Man- ed in leadership and goes out into republican party platform, farm in its last starts by taking Dallas .
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