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on hearing of a pitcher who had an
average of fifteen strike-outs to s
V game for .aeven contests, fanning
twenty» men in one game, and tw only
one in another, would not doubt send
the scout ‘outito see about ‘such a
pitcher. "and nurture can accent
pllsll that sort of a test whether it is
in college or any other league is worth
trying out. Such was the opinion of
Manager McGraw when he signed
Hamilton Coll go. He went West with
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From all indications the much
abused heavyweight class will be
called, upon to furnish most of the big
attractions when the fall season gets
under way. Just at present Gunboat
Smith Jess Willard match would be
rebuilt the best that couid be chaired
{in that line, but neither is in any hur-
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BUFFALO, Sept, 5.—The second
day's event of the sixth annual power
boat regatta of" the Motor Boat Club of
Buffalo, which was run onthe ,nggara.
river yesterday, was won handily by
Baby Speed Demon 11., owned by Mrs.
Paula 'l-l. Blackten, of New York. and
driven by Robert Edgren. Of the six
entries only two finished. There was
“That fellow is altogether too his fast going, but every power plant ex-
for the Gunner to fight unless we perienced trouble
The best time
.can get a let '0; money :9, u,» said made was. approximately 49 miles per
Steve Royce. a Young pitcher from' Manager Buckley “‘9'“ mm the hour. looted by the winner.
match inst as soon as they' il show us
The event yesterday was a lid-mile
the New var club on the anal West ‘me com 1““ new there .3 a», gm race for theiuoo booby "sealed by
ern journey. and the catchers on the
big enough to hold it, but if the en
W. J. Connors. Four of the speeders
Giants' staff say that he has control in New york was again: 0, that' club were nose and nose over the first lap.
and migrest deal of speed and looks m Ebbetts Field getsa
to be a pretty good prospect.
T license we
We might be able to talk business. "
The Buffalo Enquirer was the first
bydropiape to stop. she lost her
have been many of the same sort of}-
Buckley said that he had no inten- Wheel and rudder by some in con-
pitchers who have come up to the big lion of ”cent“; the 308th ofler for tact With “an”, mt“; obstruction.
organization with wonderful records
a return bout 'with Sam Ilangfond.
The P. D Q. burned out her man-
in college or the minor leagues only “That fellow always trains for a. white note on finishing 15 miles. While Baby
to find that the going is much harder
in the major leagues.
Chief Meyers was tipped off about
Royce and told McGraw about the
young man. The New York man-
ager then told the chief to get him
and that he would give him every
chance with the Giants to make good
So Royce will be observed with the
keen eye when the Giants assemble
for their training trip next spring.
Roycewas the pitcher for his team
at Hamilton College. There was
league organized called the New
York State Intercollegiate Association.
which consisted of the following
clubs: Colgate, Hobart \Rochester,
’ Union. St. Lawrence and Hamilton.
The hurling of Royce became the
talk of the college players: and the
gossip was that he should be glven a
trial in the( big league. 1:. man be.
that he will have to get experience in
a lower league, but that will be de-
cided later.
it was in the games against Rashes.
for College that he had New York
State fans talking about him. In the
first game against that team he fan—
‘- ned twenty men, and be came right
back in the next contest by striking
out twentyo‘ne. Royce is not yet 21
years old and may be a little light for
a"’blg league pitcher, but he will get
bigger.
BlilBill SHflRlSlflPS
Max Carey, Pirate outfielder, has
signed to go to the coast this fall
with Frank Bancroft's tourists.
Harry Wolverton gets into the
game on the‘ coast by pinch hitting.
llie generally makes a hit, too.
Many managers prefer big play-
ers. How about Evers, Maranville,
Leach. Schalk, Cicotte, et al., of the
“dwarfs?"
Fielder Jones declared that he has
never seen a better quartet of pitch-
ers than Joe Tinker has shown in
Johnson, Hendrix, Prendergast and
flange. 9
Having been tipped off that sev-
eral future Giants are to be found in
the Western League. Giant Jimmy
Burke has liobfooted it to (that part,
of the country.
Howard Ellmke, coast star. has re-
turned pnsigncd the contract the
Washington club sent him for 1915.
> Elimke isn't satisfied with the salary
Griff has offered him.
The revival or morning practice,
which" has for its purpose the, im-
proVement of the Nationals’ hitting.
,is not apt to have the desired effect
on those players Who have been
slumping all season, if the first day's
results are to be considered. Monitor.
Foster. kitchen and Williama are"
' still hitting as they have most of
the time. but the others did" not
.' show any improvement.
..VIORLD SERIES: WUWAMINIT. .
At' men's billiard room. that night.
Taybr and Donovan defeated Hominid
Craig, 1’15 to 106. in the world defies
tournament.
, . like athletics loi- girls
ought to see how my drummer can
run; up a rope"
a affair with Carpentier?
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man, " be observed in an injured cone.
Discussing the report that Tom
Jones is willing to sell Willard's con-
tract fer 925.000 to a local syndicate
of sporting men, Buckley exclaimed:
,,“Why I'd take a great.” deal less
than that for the Gunner's contract
Reliance. winner of Thursday's event,
hit a floating board while starting on
her fourth lap. The Kitty Hawk ex.
psi-fenced supine trouble and was un-
able to start when the gun wall tired.
Neptune ii. also experienced engine
trouble. but annexed to finish the
and hes a better money getter than. ““5" Summary
Willard. " Q .
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Baby Speed Demon. Mrs. Blacklon.
Can it be that Buckley has lost New “"5 11”" “1119.331? "9“”
faith in the lanky Smith since that speed. 46. 75 miles per hour.
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BENEFIT GAME AT .
. . SAVIN ROCK TODAY
NEW HAVEN, Sept. 5.-With a high-
class semi-pro club from South Nor—
waik opposing the! Hi liwoods at the
savin Rock grounds, his afternoon,
the committee in charge figure on one
of the, largest emblages that has
turned out to ficontest of this kind in
years. .
The object of the game, which
comes first is for the benefit of a lo.
cal semi-pro player who has a wide
popularity throughout southern Con-
necticut and his services will be
missed by the many fans who have.
taken an interest in the same among
the semi-pros.
“Sibliy” McNerney is the individual
who met with the mishap which oc-
curred two weeks ago while the High-
woods and Colonials were struggling
Ifor the city championship in which
the latter team won, 3 to 2.
The lineup:
Highwoode~Art O’Connell, c; Ro‘y
Foley or Doeppensmitli'. p: Bill O’Con-
nell, 1b: Johnson, 2b; P. Williams, as;
Mose Donnelly, 3b; Joe Tone. if;.B.
Forslund, of, and Tom Doughan, rt.
South Norwalk—Jlorkheimer, 3b;
Ferry, as; Lindsay,*2b: Lawn, ‘lb;
Kerr, c; Keene, if“, Volk, of; Schmidt,
ri’; Gearin, Perkins and Corned. p...
The game will be called at 3:30 p.
m. sharp following field‘eveufs which
are scheduled to start at 2 o’clock.
SHOOTING AT SEA GIRT.
' SEA ora'r. N. 1., Sept. 5.~—Rliieinen
here had an opportunity yesterday to
see who would have been selected for
the United states Palms team had not
the European war upset the arrange-
ments for the international shoot at
.Qttawa. Canada. this month. . '
The team would have beei'i' picked
from the following men, whose scores
were highest in the preliminary prac-
tice for the big diviisbnal team match
to be shot on Monday. Private James
Stewart, Massachusetts, 454; Captain
W. H. Richard, Connecticut. 451; Caps
thin K. K. V. Caseyr Pennsylvania.
450; Corporal J. F. Coppedga'llfarines.
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Neptune 11., Lawrence Buiil. De-
troll, Mich. second; time. 45: 3:4 aver.
:age speed. 39 .58
0’ TOBLE MUSE HF
IHHIHMI'B Will"!
4 Few realised the. extreme 'msrera.
tins of Wilbert Robinson as he saw. his
team being carried down to Meat be
fore Marty O’Toole. at notions Field.
yesterday.
son for the (roasted remonstrances of
this usually sedate and passive mana-
ger on every occasion when an umpire
left himself open to criticism. Robin-
son elucidated after the game.
“i wanted O’Toole two months ago,"
said Robbie. “i mentioned the fact to
'McGraw one day. ‘Lay off him.’ said
Mack, ‘his elbow is gone.‘ I laid off.
Now look at him.‘ I guess his elbow
looked gone yesterday, all right. He
never had so much speed in his life."
TRAVERS AND OUIMET T0
CLASH FOR TITLE TODAY
MANCHESTER, Vt.. Sept. 5.—
Chsmpion Jerome D. Travers, of Up«
per Montclair. and Francis Ouimet,‘ of
Woodland, the 1913 open champion,
will meet‘today in the final round of
themationai amateur golf tournament
at the Ekwsnok Country Club. In the
semi- finals Travers defeated Walter J.
' Travis. of Garden City, 5 up and 3 to
play, and Onimet disposed of W. C.
ll‘owneé, of Oahmont,1 up.
The OuimebFowues match pro-
duced better golf, and was far morefl
exciting than the contest between
the two Metropolitan veterans. Once
duly did either Quintet or ‘l‘own‘e‘s
have an advantage of more than a
450; Sergeant Perry 8. ..Scholieid Mesa.
sachusetta, 445; Sergeant Archie Fan
quharson, Marines, 443; Sergeant J.
w. lawless. Massachusetts.- 4'41, and
George W. Cheseiey. Connecticut. 435.
Poul! GAMES. .
The White so: A; C. will play Jfour
dimes in the next three “his
Mann’s. . _
Vanda}; morning—White e: vs,
single hole. and that was when Oui-
that won three holes in succession
in the afternoon round, only. to lose
immediately.
Btymies played an important part
in the match, Fownes laying three
of them for his opponent. One of
them Ouimet potted past Fowms
ball and took a nun. 9n another‘
occasmn he sent Fownss' in fora z
and lost the hole.
Travers started poorly in the. at.
terne‘on, getting trapped at the 2d.
and lifting. He took the next hole
through poor putting by. Travis.
Time more holes were pissed. in
par figures, but on the 7th Travis
was wide off the fair green and lift- -
as. on the borrowers! tourney 53...} .
‘exs. Basin played wonderful. gel: ands
took the limb. on the 15th green
, _ ~ Where. he holed a 154ml putt.
filmy fifmmw-Whitp Souths. ' -
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None appreciated the rest.
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THEY GMT No FISH.
h a. .n
all: Whololerend new. use Ex-
, citing l‘lexfl‘lL‘Illf, Just the Same
(Connecticut Western News)
George A. Wheipiey and William
A. Stevens. of South Norwaik, who
are rustlcaiing in Canaan for a cou-
ple of weeks. chartered a. steamer
belonging to Charles Nelson. Tues-
day. for a “shine cruise up the Hon.
anionic river, and with a young son
of the owner for engineer and cap-
tain, cast off and started for the fish-
ing banks just this side of the A311-
iey Falls line. They were equipped
with ample fishing tackle, and Ste-
vens, who had been delegates to dig
the bait. assured Whelpley that he
had dug two hours. and. «and the
worms enemy small and few in the
hill, but be exhibited a big tin coffee
can which, he said, contained all the
bait they would probably need.
Their vicissitudes began to vistas
about the time the)! were approach-
ing the fishing grounds. The engine
began to spit and stutter and linnlly
went out of cmmnisslon altogether,
and of course the boat stopped, in
mid-ocean. The young engineer Wil-
ed out the lllzzllngnpin and wigslod
the (in-funny. but couldn't make the
differential dlfi‘. They were . stuck
Wheipley suggested that Stevens get
out and push. but the
showed 25V loci of water under the
bout, and Simone said his legs
wouldn't reach he far down as that,
and declined 'ihd invitation, where-
upon Whelpliy proposed to hoist a
signal of disli‘fiw and wait r res-
one, but while Nelson informed his
passengers that they were far from
the regular line of marine naviga-
tion; and the only craft they were
likely to see was Bill Sheldon's
stone-bout transporting stumps from
unadjucenl patch of swamp-land.
Stevens said 'Tle didn't cure. any
way; he had come to fish and he was
going to fish. He hem rigging his
bookie and jointing his pole. and
when he was all ready he went for
bait box, \Vllitli had been tipped over
accidentally, spilling the contents out
on lhe‘ bottom of the boat. He Dow-
ed in the dirt :‘(or a few moments,
and finally "marked that it was
dodgastcd “than. Where all the bait
had gone to; but NelSon solved the
mystery by voluiiteerlng'the informa-
tliat “the worm that was in that can
got away and crawled over the gun-
..waic and dived all into the rher.
and you wouldnt see him again"
Whelpley looked reproachfully at
Stevens and laid it seemed as if he
might have dun at least. two worms.
so they could how: one a piece This
roproof so affected Stevens that he
lost his grip on the fishing tackle,
and the whole outfit—hook, line. boil
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the river.
After that there was nothing to
interfere w
means: so We maximises-from.
their dilemma. The boy was still
monkeying with" the engine and the
engine was still sultry and refused to
make its wheels go ’.round The fish.
crinen begun to look serious and
lingering death by starvation and ex-
haustlon The My caused his tinker:-
ing long enough to remind them that
any way, if the engine wouldn’t go,
all they had to do was to take the
cars and row the boat ashore. Whal-
pier at once brightened up and os-
sumed the part of the drowning man,
grasping at n. straw; but as. there
was no straw handy be grasped at
the oars instead and proceeded joy-
srously to iidjust them in the outdock’d:
While he was adjusting one, -the oth-
er slipped over the edge of the boat
and floated gully away. out of reach.
Stevens made a fladtic grab for it.
He didn't ‘get it. but he got a handful
out water and lost his cigar case out
of his top pocket Then he took the
Dlutnbiino ,
‘ timers
and sinkeemwsnt to “l“ bottom °t present plans are carried through,
lth the work of devising the different cities and towns of the
talk dubiously about the horrors of a '
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rm: near rulers
The omelet eon. o: minis. Iron at
the Amateur Athletic Union Connecti‘
cut District championships, under the
auspices of the New Haven A. A. Lighb
house Pent. AW 2244. shows mu‘
AMIRICM Luann.
Yuhrdlv'e Results-
Washington, 1; New York, 0.
Boston, 4; Philadelphia. 2.
Detroit. 4; st. Louis. 1.
Andrew Thomas, of Stamford. P.‘ L '
N.. Burr, of Stamford, each we‘ll? 10 Standing” Giulio.
points, Thomas getting first in the one ' W. h
and three miles. QM BIKE getting first Philadelphia . . . . . ... , .83 41
in the javelin throw, second in the run- Boston ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' '73 W
ning high jump, and third in the 12- Washington-......nufiz 5.5 '
pound shot-put. points counting five Detroit W“ 61 ‘
for first, three for second. two for Chicago ...............60 63
third, and one for fourth places. Otb- 3:32:01? WW2: g:
at point winners are: Antsy 5. '-King 01 l: ' """"" " '39 85
aton 6. Swanson 2, Lang 3, O‘Connor eve “d """ ‘ """ ‘
5. Howard 3, Johnson 2, Williams 2, ‘
Confrey 2. Caption 3, Van Buren 1. (5|ch Tod”.
Sanberg 3, 'Chrlstrom l. Trowbridge 7,‘ Washington “t N" “’1"
Gates 5, Holmquest 4, A. F. Shaw. 11.? 9W“ “t mm'
5, w. B. Shaw'l, Haub 5, Roedel at 5" m ‘9 Dem“. '
Rising 2, Keenan 1, Schiosser 3. ‘ Chicago at Cleveland ”L
The A. A, U. Connecticut champions W
for_1914 are: 100 yards, Hector Au- NAT‘QNM" LEAGUE.
ray, Wayerbury; 440 yards, M. F.
O‘Connor, tNew Haven; 80 yards, SA.
Evans, Warehouse Point: one mile.
Andrew Thomas. Stamford; three'
miles, Andrew Thomas, stamford; run.
ning broad jump, George A. .Trow-
bridge, .‘ew Haven; iZ-pound shot put,
Terry V. H. Gates. New Haven; throw-
ing the. iavelin, Percy N. Burr, Stam-
ford; running high jump. Edwin Hauh,
Yesterday's Results.
New YOI'K. 4; Brooklyn. 3
innings). ..
Pittsburgh. 2: St. Louis, 1.
Cincinnati, 4; Chicago, 2
Standing of clubs.
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Hartford, New York ....... 66. 51‘
St. Mary‘s A. 0.. ‘0! Stamford. won Boston "W“ ...-””2: g:
22 points. The New Haven A. A.. with CNN": "NH...“ 51
a large field of entries, won 4‘? points, St. 14°“ 9 ------~- m 5.6 63
The Y. M. C. A. and unattached dill PiliSblll’zh .......... 53 6,5
letes won 29 points. 10 Cincinnati ....... 54 64
The points by cities apart from Philadelphia "“54 65
clubs represented are. Competitors Brooklyn . . . ... . .,. . . . .
from Ne 14 . m, -—-
w even won 27 points, fro Glut” Today.
Stamford, :2 points; from Watérbury,‘
14: from Bridgeport. o: from Hartford.
13; and from the other towns in the
State, 16 points. ~ w
According to population. which does
not count much, however, in the presol
ent condition of amateur athletics in
the State, Stamford has done by far
the best. and Bridgeport is at the bot»
tom of the list.
These statistics are of value as a
fair gauge of interest in amateur ath-'
letics in the cities of the State. it “‘"533'
Boston at Philadelphia-
Plttsburgh at Chicago.
St. Louis at Cincinnati.
‘FEDERAL LEAGUE.
Vntei‘day's Results.
Brooklyn. '1; Pittsburghti .
Buffalo, 2; Baltimore,1
Boston. 6; Philadelphia. 5 (twelve
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New York at emotion (z) ‘
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512
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.452
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P.C._. .
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"wingspan ...to .
Hartford ....V.V_........5ti 5:1 51$
Springfield .......... t58 67 .604“
1’in .....'.........55 6'! .491
[New Haven . . . .L ..... 52 58 .473
‘ Wanderers . . . ., ...... 25 89 .215]
Gang-Jodi»
New York ............ ..18
Philadelphia ............ ‘ ...... 26
Brooklyn . .................... 14“
Boston ...., ........... ........31 .
Pittsburgh .20 “-
' Chicago 25
Chicago..z; Indianapolis, 1_ (ten in-
Kansas City, 1; St. Louis, 0 (first
quite a few clubs are to be set up in “me, St~ ““132 'Knnm City,1
(second game).
State. so that the district champiou- “"-
ship competition of the A. A. U. next' WW" °" cg“ L. IR 0
year will very likely make a very dif-. ‘ " I :4 '.
rerent showing ‘ilndianapolis. . . 5 on v u . n69 ‘3 ram
' follicago . .....57 55 2549
. IOXING sou-r8 IN STAMFORDI Ban-130‘“,- e u u u u - u ““23. :2 fig:
Matchmaker Ugo Rhoda, of the Bugloyn ‘60 53 , 509
South End A. C. Stamford, announces .. 9' 64 . , 430
Kansas City .1. ..5 . ._
the opening card forties! Tuesday eve. St'xbouls . “-9". 55 69. . 4 44’
hing, when an Eighhround bout be. " "” “" ' ”:49’ 68 -; _ '9'-
tween Tommy Shea. or New 'Haven, Fatah-”9132"?"
and Young Eddy, or Grobnwlch', will be
the main attractim’. Both: pin. its?
claimants for the championship in the
bantaniwelght class, and: are sure to
put up 'a good bout. in addition to the
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Games verily, ‘
arimburslrurnmplilya. .- .
Baltimore at Buffalo»
St. Louis at Kansas-City.
Chicago at. indiapapolis.
SheaJEddy bout; there will be on six- M...
round bent and four four- round bouts INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
between good men from neighboring" " ...—ea -
Yesterday's cum
Rochester. 8: Newark. 3.
towns ”Tommy Shea is training at‘:
Fitzgerald & Malone’s gymnasium. in
remaining oar mm from Whelpley, New Haven, and Eddy, who is known
and attempted to "sculi" the ship a- as me boy who 1; Will‘s in 311899.13.
shore, but lost his balance, and in putting himself in the best (audition
Toronto, 3; Providence, 2.
Baltimore. 3; buffalo: '.
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comes To etav m impulse- a; ‘
trying to recover his equilibrium, let
.go the oar. and away it went, after
its mete” .
“Now we are lost lindeed-J‘
be the first to "eat the other
would play fair. and not cheat
member. you. are not in the So
Namath mun now." said be.
there must be so funny bust
stayed: promised. and in r
Wheeler premise that if
. erp let ru 1;
thin: ashore " And _
professional baseball team has been”
. soaring in the past ten years. "
9 Association“ earn ““5 "9' m“ “A Bouncers at Buffalo.
nee' ~
can League team backing
possible at his Greenwich training imaging a: Chime-L.
narters.
clalde-helpley ,wltl n xpressfgr AS ALL EXPENSES Rochester ........,.. ..79 g:
e 'a e B 59 Providence -.74 , «
“8 despair‘ and hem me” ‘ WUNT'NG “59'9“ Bridalo ......75 . 53:
would come: WM“: Cost of running abasebaii team is Baltimore ........70 56 '-
weary to draw Vents one of the most potent arguments in “will” ......n... .J.64‘ ‘69,
he W” °1 mg" 9°“ Q‘U‘Wo 9°” Newark .57 57-
Vlce-Presldent Barnard; the Montreal W .....52‘ 77.
NW comes titrdllhh with -,a- tam” Jersey City ._....31 90
meal: to 5145mm cost of running it
Galilee Today. _.
Jersey City at Montreal (2) ‘
Newark st Rochester
Providence at 55.545.
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woman some Written
di.d- ev operate "the ;_Giévsla
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Waterbury .64
New Haven at Plttsfleid.
Bridgeport at Hartford.
New lpndon at Springfield. .
Wanderers at Waterbury.
warm nacono or nuns m”
THE BIG LEAGUES.
National League. '
Cincinnati ........... ""‘2‘.
St: Louis .......... . ....... ...13 "a
American League.
Philadelphia .. ........ ........33
New York. .26
Washington .............. . . . . .18 :3?“
309m. ....... ..............14
Chicago , ..... . ....... ........19
Cleveland ... ............ 9.
Detroit ”4.. ...... ...'.........£4"
'St. Louis n........u...uuV-e-Z§
Federal League. . VV. .
Kansas City .......,..........29 ..
Cliimo 1.4.,
st. Louis .19 ‘
indianapolis ‘
Brooklyn . ......fd;
Buffalo-.......... .............18
Baltimore ..... 15
Pittsburgh ..15
latitnatlonal .Luque.
Baltimore
Montreal
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Rochester 9
Toronto...... W23
Buffalo ..
Providence
Jersey City. ......u....
Newark .
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1-2-2!
A car that is secnoud the
streets and country ms 63 It
often as tine-Ford :nt be
right «ii-«its ~very PM?!“
would kill it. Isn’t this 995‘
rive proof that the Ford C
. righter it 07.1th
any other car—anywbfier;
three. to one? Over 550.000'
now in 549,54... you yours?
'Jlunabo'ut $440; Touring Car. 3490.
Town Car 3690—4. 0. b. Detroit;
:compietewlm equipment.
_ AGENT.
Ves SOUTH'MAIN'VUSTBEET.
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