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SUMTE? UM IIIS EIME. DEFEATS DAIlLINtiTON IIIGII Si IIOOL FOOTBALL TEAM JA To 0. Bark Ficht Showed Strong T? rotigh oul. While Lliu> Was Wenk Sgl Of fcilrdw? Munter l.oiil Threatened only Omer During tonne?Teani Plays t ha Hot on Xertt. The Sumter high school football team on Friday afteroon evened up old scores and retrieved the defeats of the past four years by outplaying the Darlington boys on the local grounds snd defeating them by the score of 26 to 0. The game started off with rush and the spectacular playing of the first few minutes promised the spectators that the game would be an Intensely Interest? ing one. However, after those tlrst few minutes, when the Darlington boys found that they could not gain through the line or around the o ad they seemed to give up hope of scor? ing and played a defensive game for the three remaining quarters. The game opened with Sumter kick? ing to Darlington. Darlington failed to gain and kicked. On a forward pass Smith caught the ball and start? ed out for a touchdown, but was stopped by Flowers. On the next play Darlington attempted a forward pass and thrown of Sumter caught the ball. Sumte r failed to gain and Darllng toa kicked on the fourth down, re? covering the ball on a fumble. This was on the Sumter thirty yard line aad waa the only time the Sumter goal waa threatened. After this the game was all In Darlington territory and the Sumter backs gained repeat? edly, while the Darlington players re? peatedly failed to gain and were forced to kick. In the last quarter another spec? tacular play came when Uradham forced his way through the whole Darlington team by brilliant broken field running and had a clear field before him. when he stumbled,, and fell, cheating himself of what ap? peared to be an easy touchdown. The hall was taken to within ten feet of the Darlington goal line, when on a fumble the ball was dropped and a Darlington player recovered and made fifteen yards before he was <" owned. A Darlington player was downod with the ball which he dropped after he fell to the ground and Uradham picked the ball up und carried It over for touchdown, only to be called back, aa the referee had already blown his whistle. Darllngtou failed to gain aad kicked and after making downs twice, Uradham made a brilliant broken field run of twenty yards around left end for a touchdown. During the second quarter a for? ward pass was made from Spann to Bradham. who caught the ball and then dropped It as he started to run with It with a free neld to goal. Sev? eral times the Sumter team tried the forward pass, but only once was it worked successfully, Uradham to Brown. Darlington tried the for? ward pass three times, but failed on It every time. Sumter's scores came In the first quarter, when the ball had been car? ried to within fifteen yards of the goal, when Doyle took the ball on a fake play and carried it over, the Darlington team t lug unaware where the ball waa until Hoylc had already made the touchdown. Uradham fail? ed to kick goal. The second touch? down came in the second quarter when the Sumter team carried the ball on end runs and straight buck Ir. , from one end of the field to the other and fioyle took It over for the sscoad touchdown. Uradham kick? ed goal. In the fourth quarter the ball wjis carried to within twenty yards of the goal line and the same fake play on which the tlr?t touch? down wus made was again worked successfully and Doyle curried the ball twenty yards for a third touch? down. During the last part of thin quarter this fake was tried again, but the ball was fumbled and Darlington recovered It A few minutes later Uradham | irrled the bull over for the last touchdown of the wmo, making a iwenty yard run to do it. The Darlington line ?hrOWOS' Up strong, and the back held was ?oo?l also and ran mugnlllccnt interfer? ence, hut It was not equal to the brilliant defensive game which the line und baektiehl put up. the run? ners being downed repeatedly for loesee. The interference was e\?n better than thai of the Sumter team and the line played I better offen? sive r ?nie. but on the defensive liters was no comparison. Og the offca*dvc for the first three quarters and sel? dom during the fourth quarter the DurllnKton Urn- aUtOSSirged lhe Sum? ter line and the Sumter back field men had to make Ifejesf owg hale through the line when thi ittempted link? ing tactbs. The Darlington ends re l?eclully plaved a brlllmat game and many times the Sumter men were thrown for losses. Jeffords, at cen? ter, captain of tbo team, als,, paved a brilliant defensive game ami ii was largely to his work that the Hun? ter men were unable to make ? v,a?l over out of tin- nanu?. The Sumter line showed weak in spots, especially on the offensive, The ends did good work in break ini up the interference of their opponent*, so that the runner could he reached. Shaw at center played a lint defensive game. Some pretty tacklin;: was seen OH both sides, the Sumter players he? ilig especially expert at this. In the hack field Spann run his team well, his plays showing good hcudwork. Monaghun carried the ball well. Hoylt was a consistent gainer through the line and llurns played a Strong game both on defensive and offensive. Brudham showed up in brilliant form as a broken held runner a ad played consistently on the defensive. The teams were lined up us follows. Darlington, Jeffords, c; Mclntosh, Ik; Edwardr. It; Fulton, le; McKeithan. rg; McCall, rt; Coggswell, re; Doyle, qb; Smith, U. rh; Smith, A, Ih; Kol lock, fb; Subs. Brown, James and Parrott; Coach Kollock. Sumter, Shaw, W, c; Allen, lg; Du Hant, Hurst, ?g; Dick, It; Shaw, ?, rt; Flowers, le; Brown, Yates, re; Spann, qb; Burns, Boyle, In] Brad ham, rh; Boyle, Monahagan, fb. Referee, Dr. DuRant; Umpire Mr. White; head linesman, Nash. The next game the high school will /day will be in Charleston on next Friday afternoon. This game will probably be one of the hardest that tho team has to play, as the Charles? ton team is considered orte of the fastest and strongest high schaol teams in the State. The garie will in ?all probability mean the State high school championship and the Sumter boys are working hard to carry off this honrr this year. wot'LD PRKIWUE FOit WAR. Massachusetts Congressman ltevoals Some Startling Facts Itcgardlng the UnpreisiredJH\ss of the United States to laiiorcc its Behests if Culled Up? on. Washington, Oct. 16.?American advantage in time of war ends with the fact that the English -speaking races are a little the best sailors, said Representative Gardner, of Massa? chusetts, who today urged the house to adopt his resolution for a:i investi? gation of the preparedness of the United Sttaes for war. 4,Do you know," he asked, "how many men we need to man our pres? ent modest licet und auxiliaries'.' About 100,000. Do you know how many we have? About 50,000 in the navy and 8,000 in the naval militia. In other words we have 42,000 raw men to make sailors of before we can mobilize our fleet. "You have heard of the submarine which tho German admiralty tells us destroyed three British cruisers with three successive torpedoes. We might do something of the sort if we had the torpedoes, but we have not got them. We only have about 1,000 tor? pedoes .about one torpedo lor each tubo with which our ships are armed. It is almost us absurd as if we had only one projectile to each gun, ex? cept that torpedoes take a year to build and cost $1,000 each. "The United States, by the Monroe doctrine, hus closed Mexico and South America to colonization. The United States has indicated to the greatest military people which Asia has ever seen that she will have none of them within her borders. "For both doctrines I am ready to battle und ready to pay. I am willing to be called a dog in the manger, if you choose. However. I do not pro? pose, If I can help it, to be a tooth? less old dog with a noisy bark, but no bite to correspond." TO ERECT COTTON WAREHOUSE. Citizens of Wcdgeficld Decide on Having Their own Place for Storing and Prepare for Building in Short rime. Wedgelicld, Oct. 15.?On yesterday evening a few of our citizens met for the purpose of organizing a cotton warehouse Company? The following officers were elected: President, I >r. M. L Parier; vice president, Sam Weinberg; secretary nnd treasurer, Jno. It. Ryan. The capital of 11.000 was readily suhscribed to, a buildinr committee appointed and in less than twsnty-four hours the contract had been given to build, and material or? dered for lUO building, The excessive charges f .r Storing cotton in Sumter aroused our folks, end In nbont two (weeks the warehouse here will ?" [ready for cotton which will be stored for j'c per month. WOl 1.1? LIMIT CAPITAL. Corporation Commissioner.-, for Uni? form Maximum. Whahlngton, Oct. II.?A maximum limitation on Ihe capital stock of cor porntlons was today voted Into lh< draft of a uniform State incorporation net belie; prepared here by ? conf< r , ,,< e of commissioners of the various states. Advocates of the limitations contend that any bill submitted tc the State must contain BUCh a pro? vision to meet the demand of progres? sive legislation. DAHHs AGAINST ELIMINATION. Fai satis' Union President opposes ??No Cotton in i?ir>"?uivos Iiis RonooMo for stand. To the Rdltor of The State: 1 Wonder If our elimination friends realize how much damage they are doing the Cotton farmers by their ex? aggerated statements about cotton! 1 am reminded of the letter J)r. Stat ic house published three years ago in which he charged that tin- Farmers' union "underestimated and over? priced" the cotton crop, He and his associates by their searehcad tactics to force total elimination are doing more to break prices than any and all the mistakes the Farmers' union ever made. Henry Grady said, "Cot? ton is a fool; it always does the oppo? site of which people expect." One year the prophets and "sons of prophets," of whom we have an un? limited supply, say, "We will never again see low priced cotton." The next year these same sky-gazers get in the dumps and say, "We will never see cotton at 10 cents again." The world goes merrily on and in less than six months the prophets and "sons of prophets" are put to shame by the market goint' just the opposite. The calamity howlers now forget that part of the 16,000,000 hale crop of 1911 sold "or 18 cents by July of the next year, un top of this came tne 14,000,000 bale crop of 1912 that sold for about 12 cents. On top of this the 15,000,000 bale crop of 1912 sold as high as 14 cents a year ago, and with the prospects of this crop fairly good cotton was selling at 12 cts when the war broke out in Europe. In the three years of 1911, 1912 and 1913 the South put on the market about 45,000,000 bales of cotton at an aver? age price of 12 cents per pound. Prac? tically all the loss on marketing cot? ton in the past three years was due to hysterical selling in the early part of the season of 1911, and to the low grade of the cotton that remained in the ?elds until March, 1912. With the example so fresh in our minds of what was the outcome in 1911-12, and losses on good cotton plainly the re? sult of too rapid marketing:, we had every assurance that we could come out of this emergency without great loss by "a strong pull, a long pull and a pull all together." That there will need to be curtailment of acreage we all know. A great many of us be? lieve it will have to be done by legis? lation, to bring about uniformity, and a national system of diversilication. Hut that any considerable number of farmers accept total elimination as the only and all sovereign remedy is a myth. The legislators of the South? ern States will not be led to extreme meusurcs by these scarehead lobbies, it is fortunate that some of the ad? vocates of elimination referred to the leadership of South Carolina in Seces? sion. While I yield to none in my Ann belief that the States had the right to secede from the Union in 1S0O, and honor the names of the men who made glorious history for the South In thut great war, the cold, hard fact is that they made a colossal mis? take from which we have not yet re? covered. Total elimination of cotton will be a blunder. The advocates of it are doing immense harm and the sooner a quietus is put upon such wild Statements as they make to bolster Up their plan, the sooner will we get to a working solution of our difficulties. Prof. Conrad!, Dr. Long, Mr. Heiser, Mr. McMahan and others have indi? cated the remedial legislation we need, and what we may expect from a national course. 1 am sure total elimination does not represent any considerable number of the members of the cotton congress. The only Farmers' union expressions that 1 know of are an overwhelming majority | against it in the National Farmers' j union and the unanimous suggestion from, the Sumter county union for cotton acreage to be limited to one i third of the land actually under cul? tivation. The prediction was made in Wash? ington from more than one State that the advocates of total elimination will wish they had never suggested it two yean from now. l wish my readers to understand that my position on this question docs not bind the members of the Farmers' I union any more than Dr. Btackhouso's binds the members of the eotton con? gress "f which i am just as loyal u member as he is, B. W. Dabhs. President State Farmers' Union. -_ I M.UU ONIA STATION CLOSED, Navy Department |?ut* Honolulu sta? tion < int of Business. Waahtngton, Oct. 1*1,?The Marconi wireless station .it llononolulu was nrd red closed bj lhe navy depart mcnt today. Neuro Lynched for Assault. Lake (*lty, Fla., i >< t. lTom .1 n nior. a neuro, who assaulted Mrs. II T Itoblnson, Wednesday wan found this morn Ins. hanging t<> a tree mar the scene of the crime. The bodj hnd been riddled wi1 h bllllel I, hikgiahs i\ i loi:i:n( i: several stores Broken into During Last Tew Days. Florence, Oct. 10.?The burglars are beginning to burgle hereabout within the last lew days, whether il is because of the low prices of cot? ton, or whether it is because the ne? groes are not picking cotton, or whether it is because of pure down? right meanness is not known. How - ; ever, they, or he, made a raid on two local business houses during the past week. <m last Friday night the Store of Mr. David S. Gregg, at 4^ North Dargan street, was broken Into shortly after 10 o'clock and the in? truder managed to get what cash there was i:i the till, some few dol? lars. Mr. Gregg, very fortunately for him, had left some mail in the store and went back to get it. Hearing a I noise he turned on the lights and aj negro was seen getting himself through one of the back windows, the glaas of which he had smashed to make his entrance to the store. He managed to get safe beyond the reach of Mr. Gregg and the "cops." Tues? day night the wholesale fruit and con? fectionery store of Mr. N. D. Baroody at 36 West Front street, was entered through the sky light of the building, Which was smashed. Mi. Baroody docs not know what or how much I was stolen. He has missed, however, [a lot of cigars and other stuff, amounting to considerable. So far he has no clue to the thief or thieves. When the "coon" left Gregg's store Friday night he left his hat and a new ;.xc, With which Mr. Gregg thinks he intended smashing the cash register, but his timely ap? pearance saved him from this deed and saved Mr. Gregg several hundred dollars, in that the cash register was not touched. Just now Dill James is a greater man than Jesse or Henry of the same family.?Boston Journal. I'KATI ATTACK u\ AMHKK'ANS, Mexicans Under Ucii. Aguilar Tmkc up Menacing Position. Vera Crux. net. 16.?Evident prep? arations by a small detachment of nu n under Clen. Agullar for an at? tach last night on the American out? posts around Vera Cruz have resulted in the strengthening of the American lines. Borne 200 Mexicans are in a po? sition about a half mile from the American outposts und they have two mounted guns trained on the Ameri? can soldiers. Their warlike activity is attributed in Vera Cruz to over- in? dulgence in liquor, but their lioasts that they were about to inaugurate tin attack that ultimately would drive the Americans out of his port are tak? en more or less seriously on account of the persistency of reports that Aguilar will not be aide to restrain himself much longer, and that the im patten.>f his men to enter Vera Crus is rendering hie control over t hem doubtful. Aguilar's entire force is estimated between 1,000 ami 8,000 men, with I several pieces of artillery. It is re? ported in Vera Crua that Aguilar has made a wager that he will take breakfast in this city next Sunday. TO I ILL TWO VACANCIES. Representative Lever AMMMgdSBS Scholarships at West Point and An? napolis. 1 Representative Lever wishes to an? nounce that he will hold a competi? tive examination at Columbia, s. C, January 2nd, 1915, to nil vacancies from the 7th district at both West Point and Annap dis. Young men de? siring full Information in regard to these examinations can receive the same by writing Representative Lev? er. TEACHERS WANTED. Seven at $8"); eight at *40 ; five at $50 ; seven at >fi0. Also a nam? ber of principaisbips at *()?"> to $85. Will have good places open all daring fall and winter. Special proposition to teachers v. ith certificates. Write ion mediately. SOUTHERN TEACHERS' AGENCY, W. H. Jones, Mgr. Columbia, S. 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