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How a Girl Blundere (vv. R. Roie, in dec The young woman paused in the doorway. The young man at the table looked up and liked the picture. "Come in," he called. She advanced timidly. "If you have the time," she said, ?I-i would like to submit a play." "So I gathered from the fact that you have the manuscript with you," said the man. "Be seated, please." She looked at him in some surprise. "Was this the man she had been warned against, the petulant, irri table, outspoken manager? "It is my first effort," she ex plained. "I can imagine so," he said. "You can't have been at the business very long." .Evidently this was a reference to her youth. "I am twenty-two," she hastily said, "and I have studied the best authors, and seen the best plays." He smiled again. "No doubt your hours have been well spent," he said. "At the same time the influence of the best au thors and the best plays may hamper rather than assist." Her face clouded a little.-. "?ut if we cannot go to' them for help and inspiration, where can we go?" "I wish I could tell you," said the young man. She hesitated. "I am taking a great liberty," she said. "In what way?" "I am going to ask you to let me read a little of my play." He looked doubtful for a fleeting moment. "I am considering," he said. "I know it is irregular," she mur mured, "but you seem so kind that I am daring enough to take the lib erty." "Have you any idea how many .plays come into this office every day?" "N-no." "Neither have I But they total an astonishing number-most of them absolutely impossible." "Yes, it's very discouraging." "It. certainly is very discouraging for the hopeful manager." "D-do you read all the plays that come into the office?'" He laughed. He was much amused. "Certainly not. There are two readers who do nothing else." She sighed. "I suppose jt would have been just as well if- I had mailed my manu scilpt. But people say such unpleas ant things. They have told me that my play would be thrust away into a moldy cabinet-and never looked at again. " "Yes." . "Then thsy. said that if there was anything good in my play it would be -be borrowed." - "Stolen?" "Y-yes." Ho looked at her flushed cheeks, her sparkling eyes. "You are not writing plays for a livelihood?" "No." "Merely a diversion?" "Yes. Of course, I want to-to do something." He smiled. "A light and easy occupation that can be carried on at home. I see." "I have written a few little plays. One of them was performed while I was at school at Wellesley. It was a fantasy." "I know the variety." "Then I wrote a two-act play for a dramatic duh. . It was never per formed. " "That's a pity." "The club broke up during the first rehearsal. There were too many stars, I think." "I know that variety of club." The girl nodded. "And that's the extent o' my dra matic experience." "It's not overcrowded," he said, and looked at his watch. The girl leaned forward. "Isn't it true that managers are always on the lookout for good plays?" "Of course it's true." "And that they will take a good play even by an unknown author?" . "That's equally true." She sighed again. "That's my only hope," she said. He looked at her curiously. "You take this rath sr seriously," he said. "Isn't that the right way to take lt? I want to succeed. I want to do something worth while. Il isn't as if I needed the money. My i'ather is but never mind that. ? have a long ing to be famous. Ever since Brew ster Allen made his grea>: success I have felt that I could succeed, too." "Brewster Allen", eh?" "D-do you know him?f "A little. Are you aware that Brewster Allen tramped up and down the managerial stairs for five years before he could get a hearing?" "Yes. Isn't ii a romantic story. And he was so poor, and yet so brave and hopeful. And now he ls the most famous of them all-with honors and money just pouring in upon him!" The man laughed. "I told you I knew him a little although this isn t the office that first appreciated his genius. Would you be surprised to learn that he has quite written himself out-that he is tired and jaded, and harassed by the 'claims upon him-by the importunate demands upon his pen, and that he is torn with fear lest his next drama should show the effect of his mental exhaustion and prove a failure?" The girl shook her heat. "That doesn't seem possible," she said. "No doubt he bab oeen feted . and flattered too much. It doesn't seem as if the man who wrote 'The Alchemist' could ever do anything poor. " She paused. "You have seon 'The Alchemist?' *. -Yes." He looked at his watch again and glanced at the volume in limp leather that the girl had laid on the table. PLA Ye d Into Good Fortune. ?land Plain Dealer,; "May I read it now?" she asked. He nodded. "You may read the cast and the synopsis. You have a synopsis?" "Oh, yes." She had. a pleasant voice and she read well. ? Presently he checked her. ?Am I to point out the faults as you go along?" "Of course." "Freely and frankly?" "Yes." "Then I don't like your fast of characters. You have too^many peo ple to handle. Cut the crowd down to nine. Those hackneyed lay figures should be on the ash heap." Then she began upon the scenery. Presently he shook his head. "You attempt too rauch in your first act. Let ,the plot work itself out. Too many people are trying to develop it. And I can see that the first act is short in action. You'll have to change all thai." The girl looked up. "?-I. wanted to make it seem real," she explained. "All sorts of crimes are committed under the name of realism," he told her. "It's a sadly abused word. Go on, please." "Is-is it worth wh'le?" "Ot course it is. Tliis ls your golden chance. It is quite possible you may never have the. opportunity of seeing me again." And he suddenly laughed. "You are very kind," she said. "You are so difieren- from what I feared you might be.' "You can't turn me from my high purpose," he said. "I am the inexor able critic. B?arthls in mind." She had just resumed her reading when there was a sr-und of a wild tumult in the hall. The girl stopped :o listen. The man suddenly arose. The noise in creased. There were distinct shouts. The man opened tte hall door. A pungent odor instar-itly filled the room. . The hall was growing dim be hind a blue haze. "There seems to be a fire in. the building," said the man. He gave the girl a quick glance. She had arisen and her cheeks had suddenly paled, but she stood firm and erect. "Is there any danger?" she asked, and her voice was steady. "I'll Investigate. Don't leave the room. I'll let you know." He closed the door behind him, but in a moment was back again, choking and coughing. He slimmed the door behind him. "A good deal of smoke is coming up the elevator shaft and the narrow stairway," he explained. "The ele vator, isn't running, and it wouldn't be safe to try the stairway." The girl glanced toward the win dow. ft "Then there Is nothing to do but wait," she, quickly siid. He looked at her with strong ad miration In his quick glance. Then he crossed tc the window and raised the heavy sash and looked out. A hoarse murmur came up from the street far below. The haze in the rc om was growing bluer. "Come," the man quickly called to the girl. "There IE plenty of pure air here. Don't look down. Do you see this ledge here and the fire es cape five ' window3 away? Yes? Well, when the time comes-which, praise God, It will not-you and I will walk along that ledge to the es cape. " "Yes," said the jirl. "I under stand. " "You are splendid," said the man. "I am horribly sf raid," said the gir." "h'o am I," said the man. They knelt together* by the window and leaned out across the sill, and both were silent. The crowd shouted, the gongs crashed, and then the smoke seemed to lessen. The man drew bick. "I'll investigate," he said. . When he came back he was cough ing and laughing, too. "Danger's over," he cried. "They checked the fire oa a lower floor. Now they are tryln? to get the ele vator up." He look?d at her curious ly. "Don't they usually faint when it's all over?" She suddenly laughed. She laughed hysterically. "Don't," he gently cautioned her. a doh %r ? Automobile As a gontlemen's agreem chains, Tip, of the New Yor code. It is permitted 1. To iun over a woman not over somebody's hat whicl 2. To out off a pedestrii his clothes with mud. 3. To break up a funeral a dog fight. 4. To smash into a carria occupants to a hospital. 5. To wreck a machine v but not to admit they were pi 6. To commit perjury in in counterfeit money. 7. To go joy riding if the not if he is in Europe. Penalties Fe MINOR CONVENTIONS (a) It is considered un over a man and see that he i? over him t.gain. By his sur having earned a reprieve for .t (b) Civility to those wh prohibited. (c) Special favors to bli to be tolerated. (d) Violations of the co< police, must be promptly rep( committee empowered to pui convicted cf gentlemanly cone PENALTIES Failure to observe the cc first offense, will subject the lng allowed to commit only t three months. For tho second offense the to only on ; killing a week. "You can't Imagine what I am ( laughing at," she said. "It's at a' scene in that two-act play I told you about. I thought it wonderfully real istic when I wrote it. But now." She suddenly laughed again. "Sit down," he said. "You are ex citing yourself." "I must tell you about it," she went on. "The hero and the heroine are penned lia a lofty building and a fire breaks out-just as this did. And then the two show their real natures -just as they would in actual life. She grows sentimental and he curses fate. She remembers her happy child hood anc! he talks about dying like a rat in a trap. And I thought it was realistic! ". "Come," said the man, "don't you want to go home?" "Why, no," said the girl. "I want to tell you about the play. You know you said it was very doubtful if I ever saw you again." "I hope I was mistaken about that," he said. And .the girl's cheeks sud-, denly flushed. "I know I have done pretty much everything wrong," she hastily said, "but I want you to hear the whole plot. Let me tell you the third act. I will talk fast." He nodded and she.began the rela tion. She gave the scene wiri a sim ple earnestness that was impressive in Its unaffected way. "You see what I meant to empha size," she said. "Here is the young wife wild with anxiety because she fears her husband's honor is in dan ger. These people who are his ene mies, the young husband's stepmoth er and the stock gambling rival, have come to denounce him. You see the course she takes. She deliberately lies to save the man she adores. Her nature suddenly changes. She lies glibly and artistically. The step mother and the broker know she is lying, but the husband and the father think she is speaking the truth-and the truth is abhorrent. The father, bowed and broken by her falsehoods, denounces her. To him she has al ways been an innocent, truthful child -the thought that she may be lying is absurd. And the husband, equally stupid, turns from her and goes away with the unhappy father. To add to .her wretchedness the stepmother tells her the sacrifice was thrown away-that her husband had been proved innocent of the charge against him." The girl paused and looked at the man. "Is there any thing in that?" she asked. He was staring at the ceiling. "I am trying to see the scene," he slowly said. "It's a little hazy. I like lt. I like it better as it grows clearer." The girl watched him with eager eyes. He quickly looked down at her. "What do you say to collaborating on it?" he abruptly asked. Before she could reply to this as tonishing question the door suddenly opened and a stout man entered. He paused and stared from the girl, to the man. Then his face lighted up. "Why, Brewster Allen," he Joyous ly cried, "I am delighted to see you! I would have been up sooner, but that fire on the sixth floor kept me fuming in the street. Did it scare you? And have you got a.play for rae?" The eminent dramatist laughed. He had reached across the table and drawn the girl's manuscript toward him. He threw a quick glance at the title page. "Miss Thorne," he said, "let me present Manager Follansbee of twenty theatres or more. Miss Emily Thorne, Manager Follansbee." The girl stared from the great play wright to the great producer. And she had stupidly taken the one for the other. Her fair face slowly flushed. "When I came into your office," said the dramatist, "I-meant to tell you that I was tired out and had an Immediate European trip in view. But I have changed my mind. I have asked Miss Thorne to collaborate with me on a four-act drama, and if she consents you shall have the finished product in just six weeks." The great producer looked from the man to the girl. But he was too wise to make any comment. "Fine," he cried. "Consider the collaborated drama accepted. My congratulations, Miss Thorne." The dramatist turned to the girl. "The principal difficulty having been removed," he said, "it only re mains for us to begin work at once." The great manager stared at the leather bound manuscript. It evi dently had played an important part in this strange little comedy. The girl suddenly put out her hand to Brewster Allen. "At once" she said. je ?utomobilisf. Conventions. ent, more binding than legal k Press, offers an automobile with a baby in her arms, but i has blown off. m's head,, but not to spatter. by cutting through it, but not ge, but not to take the injured /hon it is full of chorus girls, icked up. court, but not to pay the fine owner of the car is home, but >r Violations. sportsmanlike when you run j not dead to go back and run vival he must be regarded as he rest of that day only, ose way you block absolutely nd and one-legged people not ie, particularly in fear of the >rted In formal charges to ' lish offenders and any ow^er luct. ide and the conventions, as a offender to the penalty of be wo killings a day for the next penalty will be a life sentence ALL READY FOR TF -Cartoon by 1 PROSPERITY HE? Steel and Iron Industries, Cot? Railroad transportation, Eui Lakesland Other Lines All of Development-Three S ii OOO More For Wheat Washington, D. C.-Telegrams fri rentres pf the United States clearly sin "good times" will rule everywhere. The proofs of this are found in t immediate increases in such basic in? woolen manufactures, railroad transp moree on the great lakes. Some of these industries, like wo precedented business. Order* are nc spring deliveries, and higher ?price list: The panic of 1907 is already anci of it will, it ls predicted, disappear in t New England Cotton Mills Spending $2,500,000. Providence, R. L-Rhode Island's cotton mill owners have in course of erection'or planned for the year new plants, additions, renovations and storerooms involving an outlay of fully $2,500,000, more than half of which has been expended in the last seven montha. And there have been no labor trou bles, nor is there any on the horizon, according to Colonel R. H. I. God dard, head of the famous Lonsdale Company, which has expended fully $300,000 thia year. Tust seventeen new mills have been built or proposed in Rhode Island. The Independent Cotton Manufactur ing Company, of Manville, plans a $200,000 cotton mill; the Seminole Manufacturing Company, Pawtucket, ls making'an outlay of $100,000; the Lorraine Manufacturing Company will have an addition to cost $1,500,000 and give employment to 2500 opera tives-. More than forty-five new woolen mills .have 'been constructed or pro posed. : . Where $410,000,000 Unfilled Orders Are in Sight. New York City.-With the railroad plans in sight for the raising of $165, 000,000 to $170,0O0,-O00, most of which Is to be expended on improve ments and new construction, the steel companies contracting for the e.rpen iiture of almost $100,000,000 on new plants and with - unfilled orders: amounting to more than $410,000, 000 already on the books of a few o' the leading companies in the princi pal industries, the outlay of cash in this country in the next twelve months ls expected by trade experts to be the largest ever known In our domestic trade. So far as the railroads are con cerned, stock market authorities pre dict that before the year ls out new securities will be placed on sale that will bring the total for the twelve months , up to the enormous sum of 51,000,000,000, and probably $1, 250,000,000, thus verifying James J. Hill's prophecy that in good times this country needs a billion dollars a rear fresh capital for new construc tion and improvements. Pour Companies to Spend $74,000,000. A canvass by reporters of the steel ind Iron corporations showed that a total to be spent by four of them ilone for n?w construction ia the next twelve months amounted to $74,000, 500. In detail the figures are as fol lows: United States Steel Cor poration.... .$50,000,000 Tones & Laughlin. 15,000,000 Bethlehem Steel Company 3,000,000 Republic Steel and Iron Company. 6,000,000 Heavy expenditures are also con templated by the Pennsylvania Steel Company, the Maryland Steel Com pany, the Inland Steel Company, the Colonial Steel Company, the Southern Steel Company and the Sheffield Coal ind Iron Company. That these expenditures are war ranted ls proved by the unfilled or lers on the books. A computation of mese from the records of a few lead ing concerns, in the dlfferer.t indus Penn. Grove Campers Hear Abont Good Old Bays. York, Pa.-A plea for the old-fash oned church was made by Rev. Mr. Kendall, of Cleveland, at the Bible itudy service at the Penn Grove As ?embly In contrasting the church of :o-day with the church of St. Paul. The speaker deplored the introduc ion of opera singers into the choirs ind the preference given the wealthy n the selection of officers i.i so many murches. These things, he said, ;tand in the way of many who would otherwise join with the churches. Prominent People. Justice Brewer alluded to Roose velt as the President who spoke of 'me and my navy." M. Marcel Pr?vost has been elected x>*the Acad?mie Francaise in suc :ession to Victorien Sardou. Senator Raynor and his family ipend the summer at his son's coun ty home,, near Cambridge, Md. Ambassador Bryce has seven l-L.D.'s, two B. C. L.'s, two Litt. B.'s md one B. P. Sc., not to mention his i. B. and his honorary fellowships it Trinity and Oriel Colleges, Ox !crd. IE "BARN DANCE." iV. A. Rogers, in the New York Herald. SE IN ALL LINES ion and Woolen Manufactures, .opean Imports, Commerce on Show Unmistakable Trend tates WiU Get $165,000, Crop Than Last Year, om the manufacturing and agricultural aw that before autumn is far advanced he present activity or preparations for iustries as steel and iron, cotton and lortation, European imports and com? olen and cotton, are already doing un m being refused for next winter and s are in preparation, ent history. The lust lingering effects Iiis fall's awakening of trade. tries, shows the amount to be as fol lows: Steel and allied compa nies.$300,000,f00 Blast and furnace com panies. 30,000,000 Equipment companies... 25,000,000 Electric companies. 30,000,000 Locomotive companies.. 25,000,000 Total..*. .$410,000,000 The bituminous coal trade, another Barometer of general manufacturing business, is increasing. In line with the activity in the steel and iron trades, the woolen manufac turers also are getting busy. Not withstanding tht fact that the prioi of raw material in their line is hlghei to-day than it has been for twenty years, the mills are stocking up for a demand that they exyect to be excep tional. Reports from the Boston mar ket show ?hat in one week the manu, facturer? bought more than 15,000, 000 pounds of wool, and thrtt all the companies are installing new and im proving old machinery. Wheat Crop of Unpre cedented Value. Minneapolis, Minn. - Estimates made by wheat experts of the prom ised yield of the States of Minnesota and North and South D?kota, the three greatest wheat States, place this year's crop at 235,000,000 bushels, worth 3300,000,000 at current prices, or $165,000,000 more than last year's yield. Fewer Idle Freight Cars Throughout the Country. Chicago. - The fortnightly report of the American Railway Association on car surpluses and shortages shows a further decrease in idle cars, bring ing the total down to 260,227. Of this reduction 2536 are box and 1000 coal and gondola cars. Woolen Trust So Busy It Declines Orders. Boston.-The $5,000,000 new pre ferred stock of the American Woolen Trust authorized by the stockholders on July 17, has substantially a" been taken by-stockholders at par. Impor tant new construction and extension work on the mill will be begun at once. Officers of the Trust confident ly expect a business of $70,000,000 next year, the largest in the history of the company. Orders are being de clined for future delivery at current prices. Traffic is Booming on the Great Lakes. Washington, D. C. - Lake traffic figures Indicate improvement in the business situation aa compared with conditions a year ago. The domestic shipments from lake ports of the leading classes of commodities were 10,179,633 net tons last month, com pared with 7,427,616 net tons in 1908, and 10,690,632 net . tons shipped in 1907. The domestic shipments for the ? current season to the end of June, 19,589,552 net tons, were about sixty five per cent, in excess of the domes- | tic shipments for the corresponding : period of 1908, but this year's total ? still falls much below the 1907 fig- ? ures. All the cities on cue great lakes re- ] port business at flood tide. Oklahoma Treasurer Deposits State's Money in Kansas Bank. , Guthrie, Okla.-In spite of the ad- . vantages supposed to be derived from | the Oklahoma bank guaranty law and i the efforts of the State administration j to strengthen the law in all its work- ? InES. lt has develonptf from an official < reporc made by tn? State examiner and inspector. Mr. Taylor, that $110,- , 260 of the State's money has been | placed by James Menefee, the State < treasurer, in a Kansas City bank, j where it does not receive the protec- i tion of that law. The Field of Labor. ? A labor temple will soon be com- I pleted for the labor unions of ITo- ' qualm, Wash. : The men who earn a living clean- ? ing windows are to form a union in ; New York City. < A local of Ceramic, Mosaic and En caustic Tile Layers has been formed at Vancouver, B. C. Leather workers comtemplate ma- ? king a demand for a universal eight hour day for the craft. A law providing for a fifty-four- f ] hour week for women was enacted j by the Missouri Legislature. cAmong Diamond Gossip and Gene JACK JOHNSONCANNQT DODGE Will Be Compelled to Give Jeffries an Answer to Statement Claim ing World's Title. New York.-So far as money has anything to do with prize fighting, James J. Jeffries has done as much as he can to get Johnson to meet him in the ring. Five one thousand dollar bills, pre sent vintage, as yellow as saffron, and as well engraved as any bills that ever were turned out by a govern ment artist, have been hung dn the gallery to await the pleasure of the negro who holds the championship. The money has been posted with a stipulation that may make Johnson dance. Not' only is he to meet this $5,000 with a similar amount to in sure the match, but he must put up another $5,000 as a side bet in order to make the trouble of training worth the time of the big fellow. That will make a total purse of $20,000, winner to take all. There, are some who believe that Johnson will come a cropper trying to meet these conditions. He has some money of his own. . How much no one knows. He earned quite a little by his fights abroad, and since he has been home he has possessed himself of that, .inalienable right which be long to fighters-to get rid of It as quickly as possible. From all ac counts he has been faithful and per severing in his energy to separate himself from anything which he may have deposited in the bank. He may have a larger sinking fundj than any one knows. ) Another question is whether John son can induce any backer of prize fighters to put up the money for him V. he doesn't happen to have the loose change in his trousers', pocket. Of course, if the champion can't get the-necessary sum together Jeff irdesi will not (feel lt jincumbent to wait more than four months to close the match. He can gracefully de cline to continue negotiations and Johnson will suffer accordingly. Meanwhile Jeffries has made up his ming to go to Europe. That's set- ? tied for the time being. He will travel to Carlsbad to try the springs. There are a great many distinguished 1 persons in Carlsbad and on their way ! to Carlsbad for the same purpose. Some of the members of the most 1 noted families of Europe are going to j be present at the springs shortly. j Take a brief glance over this Jeff ries matter and note how he has . been forced to become a fighter again. \ practically against his will. While ! he was out in California, enjoying himself and making what money he J could in the business which he has established in Los Angeles, a smart * theatrical man in New York suddenly . conceived the notion that it would be a good business venture to put Jeff ries on the stage again. A dispatch was sent to the former champion that he would be paid $2.'500 a week, or something of that sort, if he would agree to three months Of work before the public. That look ed like such easy money that Jeffries stopped to think it over, especially as 1 it provided an opportunity to get 1 back to the east and see old friends, i In a few days the preliminaries < were arranged, and with a smart re- i compense for every day that he was < away from home the once champion < started away from the folks and came 1 east. Of course, the moment that he i got east it wasn't like the theatrical < folk who had engaged him to per mit the . ' ,:c to forget for a minute'* that the. 'ght be a chance that he t would tc! o to the ring again, and '< through the cheerful art of the inter- * viewer Jeffries was advertised every ? five or six? minutes. t By and by it began to look as if ' he would not make it his object to t meet Johnson. Then there was an- 1 other turn of the adventurous press agent's mimeograph and Jeffries f bounded back to the center of the 1 stage. i Between stories which were and t stories which were not denied, the big ? fellow, little by little, was forced In- t to the position that he is found to- * day, in spite of the Tact that there Is reason to believe that he would pre- 1 fer to be left to comfort, and that he s ?lld mean it when he said he was tired of righting for the benefit of the pub lic or for the benefit of Jeffries. Johnson must make some kind of 1 a. reply to Jeffries. What it will be i remains to be seen. He can't ig- I nore this formal announcement by a c man who, in his prime, could have I whaled Johnson abound the ring and r back again. 1 The chances are about as good that he may do lt now if it ever b ecomes necessary. The difference between a fight now and one when Jeffries ? tvas at his best is just the difference Lhat age insists the human being must nay when the mind that controls it f Insists that it shall undertake physic- t il efforts that were once matters of 0 3asy achievement. . 11 Jeffries is not in anything like the * condition that he was when he fought r those famous encounters at Coney Isl- 0 md in this city. Perhaps he is a lighter and some harder in flesh than ^ when he first came east 1 Tn his present condition he would lispose of Johnson quickly If the legro takes no better care of himself * than he l'as in the last two months. * Those who have seen him in the west J' say he is showing plenty of signs of !: sajsy living and that he will not be ible to train himself thoroughly as 0 juickly as he Imagines. ' Pittsburg will probably be the first v. :eam In the major league to reach the o 100 mark in runs. Up to Friday the o Pirates had scored 391 times in 87 ? james, an average of more than four C runs per game. They had made 777 a iasehlts, had stolen 101 bases and t nade 113 sacrifice hits, J ROBBERY CHARGED BY JIMMIE BRITT. London.-Johnny Summers, the acme of English lightweights, won his fight with Jimmy Britt, the C?liiornia lightweight, at the Memorial Grounds in Westham by a clean knockout In the ninth round. It was the Britisher's fight from the first, and though Britt displayed much of his old-time cleverness, he wore himself out in the first two rounds after which it was apparent that the California was in for a good beating. ?Summers waa a 6 to 4 and 2 to 1 favorite in tho betting and the Amer ican contingent put up several thou sand dollars on Britt at these prices. Summers got stronger, apparently, as the fight progressed and in the ninth round, in answer to the cries of his friends for a knockout, rushed Britt '"i ovfr the ring and poured in ? : ..Mug of blows that soon had jimmy utterly helpless. Summers cleaned up a $500 purse and half the gate receipts by his vic tory. New York.-Jimmy Britt thinks he was robbed during the fight in Lon don. In a cablegram to a New York sporting man, received after the bat tle, Harry Pollock, manager for Britt, ieclares the American fighter was aot knocked out in the ninth round, alleging that the English referee hur ried the count along until he counted 'ten" much too soon. He claims Britt was on his feet and ready to continue the fight in 10 seconds. It ls probable that Britt will remain in England and make a further effort to Eight Summers, who has already been matched to fight Freddie Welsh for the lightweight championship of Eng land. O'BRIEN IS THE BETTER. Denver.-Philadelphia Jack O'Brien tad the better of Jim Flynn, the Fue llo fireman, in a six-round go here. O'Brien's margin was not great. In 'act, Flynn finished the stronger of :he two and in the final round had D'Brien in visible distress, opening i cut over his left eye and sending lim to his corner a little unsteady. Flynn throughout the fight rushed continually. He landed hard and jften on O'Brien in the second round, [n the first, third, fourth and fifth rounds, O'Brien got his'left, jab and right uppercut In working order and lad a good shade in all, although F*l.vrin was fighting ?" lhe time. In the last round. ?owever, Flynn looked a left to O'Brien's eye the in stant they came together and banged lim up against the ropes with a suc cession of rights and lefts and O'Brien mierged from the rally with a lot if his steam gone. O'Brien opened an old cut over lynn's left eye in the third round ind made it his mark toward the close, the eye by that time being learly shut. :OLLINS GIVING TY COBB A MERRY CHASE. Boston, Mass.-"In the American eague it looks as if Eddie Collins lad Ty Cobb, the Detroit speed chap, :ied to a post." says Al Watts, a lo cal critic. "Collins is every bit as "ast as Cobb in getting to first and has lisplayed even more daring than Dobb on the bases so far this year. ?Vhen it comes right down to facts t is the daring base running that gets credit for being a speed wonder." Ham Hyatt is the leading batsman >f the league. He has taken part in !6 games, has been at bat 29 times, ind has made ll hits. He has also ?cored five runs. Of Hyatt's clout3 bree have been doubles and two trip- . es.' He has proved a marvelous help o the Buccaneers, being a wonder at utting in a pnich. Wagner is the real leader. He ell off to .346 during the past weeli, mt ls still many points ahead of his ?earest competitor who has taken ?art in the same number of games, ?'red Clarke maintains his place in he .300 class, and Jack Miller ls igaln hovering around the .290 mark. 'Chief" Wilson has risen to .252, havy ng gained 10 points in a week. He leems destined to go still higher. Brannigan Beats Harvey. New York.-In a IP-round bout ier? last night before the Sharkey Uhletic club, Patsy Brannigan, of ^ttsburg. defeated Charley Harvey, >f Philadelphia. Harvey had the jest of the first six rounds, but Bran igan beat him to a standstill in the ast four. . Chance for Smallwood. New York.-Percy Smallwood, mid lie distance champion, and Henri St fves, the world's champion for the ull Marahton distance, were watched o race 12 miles at Cincinnati Satur lay, August 14, the race being at light by electric light. This wjll be he first time these two runners havo net. Each -has established a rec >rd. Smallwood annexing the 5. 10, 12 nd 15-mile world's marks, while St. 'ves is the holder of aU records from G to 26 miles, 385 y The rematching of Ketchel and ?apke for a 45-round bout at Colma on lepterr' 3r 9, which looks to be a cer ainty, means that Promoter Coffroth ; anxious to have Ketchel re-estab ish himself as the most formidable pponent for Jack Johnson, witjh .hom the Michigan Lion is matched r> fight on October 12. If Ketchel .'ill climb on the water wagon with ut delay and begin the hardest kind f training it is thought that he can ispose of Papke in summary fashion, ?therwise Papke will beat him out of rare chance to win fame and for une in the event of a victory ovex ohnson. :].... -,?Y.M