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Show THE GRANT8VILLE The men have been out since before dawn, for they were an advanced patrol. They were discovered by the Bodies only an hour ago, however, and their position la now made unenviable. The ground behind slopes and they would be exposed to machine-gu- n fire all the long' way to their trenches. Now the artillery la beginning to search them out BROKEN TRACTOR DELAYS BIG GUN UTAH. NEWS, GRANTSVILLE, They Try Out Feens Tactics. From the right shell hole there Is a flutter of white, and slowly a Morse message Is sent with a leaf torn from a notebook. "Try Feenys tactics," it How about-l- t T The offispells out. cer who receives the message smiles to himself. , Yes," he answers, we will start when yon signal. Give ns five mlputea." The signal Is given. Both groups dash forward and only one man falls. Breathless, but revengeful, they fall Into the machine-guemplacement There Is some quick work with the bayonet the gun Is wrecked, a dugout Is bombed, four prisoners are taken. Ten minutes lajer, leaving two parties of Germans bombing each other Industriously over a traverse, the raiders streak across the No. Mans Land. They .ore seen, but the machine gun Is out of action and rifle fire Is all that they have to fear. Then our Yneq see them and a heavy covering fire la Photograph taken during a British advance, showing the barrel of great up. They fall over the parapet kept of tractor. Its down ls the that breaking gun delayed by bounce off the firing step and lie panting on the duck boards In the bottom of the trench. And Feeny, who went on leave the TAOTICS WIN A next week, found an envelope waiting for him before he left There were notes In it and 'a two hundred-fran- c and right to the head. As he steps message of eleven words : In payment Soldiers Remember How Feeny out the other man steps In and lands for lessons received In the noble art a hard one on the junction of the ribs. of Got Out of a Tight CorThe blow hns told. Still circling, ner in Ring. Feeny gets his man Into the salient of HAVE 150,000 PEONY BUDS the ropes and rushes In with a but badly planned attack. lie Ohio Farmer Raises Blossoms Just to hns the shorter reach by Inches, and TRY IT ON THE Admire Doesn't Sell Any he knows he must fight to the body of Them. e and come Inside the blows of Macdona. Then he gets home again ' At Close Quarters Count Enemy Out Cleveland, O. Mr. and Mrs. Frank ned the older man Is sent bard back When Feeny Goes on Leave He Gets who live on a little farm near Selther, to the ropes, but, being a master of started Token of Appreciation for here, raising peonies 20 years comes back from them ns rlngcraft, At first ago. Lessons In they had a small bed of if thrown from a catapult, and his left comes round with full shoulder weight them. Then they began growing more London. How the tactics of the behind It Feeny takes It ducking, but year by year, until now they have sevprize ring got two little groups of Brit- too late; the glove comes home over eral acres. TheyInestimate they have their patch. They 150,000 blossoms ish soldiers out of a tight corner, and ono eye. The round Is over. them Once more the boxers face each dont sell them; they just have eventually gave them the victory in a to admire. numbers with lively scrap" 'superior other, but they now know ench others of the enemy, Is told lu an Interesting tactics. It Is a good round, but when story communicated by a correspond- It finishes It shows that the man with PRESIDENT EKCOURAGES ent" to the London Times. the shorter reach must get In close to SPORT IN WAR TIMES The story opens with a glove contest his opponent, who has the range of 1 in a room lit by four large acetylene him. lie knows this, too, so he fights lamps; on tiers of benches and boxes hard, tunneling Into Mncdonns defense men. They with jabs and short-arsit hundreds of khaki-cla- d hooks, clinchhave most of .them been fighting all ing when hard pressed and smothering Feeny attacks through the week, and now they are fn the breakaway. Go going to wntoh other men fight with with a flurry of quick Keep at him I the Crowd gloves. Two men in overcoats step In again through the ropes. As the gloves are shouts. And Feeny does as advised. Macdona, unwary, has allowed himbeing adjusted an officer steps Into self to be backed into a corner, and, the ring. He is loudly cheered. A contest," he says, "be- quick as a terrier, the sliorter-nrme- d tween two Irishmen. (Cheers.) Ser- man steps Inside his guard and gets punches on geant Kennedy Macdona, eleven stone home with two two, and Quartermaster Sergennt Tim the solar plexus. Macdona sways, makes a step Into the ring, and then Teeny, eleven stone. Both boxers are fine specimens. Fee- falls In a heap with one arm relaxed over the lower rope. The referee ny, although he gives away only two reaches count of Ten" before the the looks much the pounds, lighter, nis fallen man moves at alL body glistens In the white light As Good scrap, says the machine-guhe closes Ills gloves his muscles ripple officer to a fellow lieutenant, but Feefrom wrist to shoulder, and Ills chest Is flanked with a padding of muscle ny would never have won If he hadnt to hack up either hand. Macdona Is got to close quarters." A Week Later; the Trenches. older, nis frame looks almost rigid. A week later. Two little groups of same Is not of the There subtle play men are sheltering In two shell holes the muscles, but he seems made of far out amid the German wire.- The arms. and he has Iron, abnormally long Ills ears look as If they had been trenches two hundred yards ahead of them are occupied. A spray of macpunched flat agnlnst the side of his hine-gun bullets plays across the lips ' skull. The referee calls, Seconds of the holes, and two men who were President Wilson throwing out the out! a look-se- e are sitting groan- ball at the congressional ball game, making Exchange Blows From the Start ing In the bottom of the trench. The which was held at the American The two boxers step Into the middle two parties are twenty yards apart. league park, Washington, for the beneof the ring and shake hands. There Is Presently the machine gun stops Its fit of the Red Cross. no noise save that of the slip, slip of patter and,there Is comparative silence. the soft kid boots over the reslned There Is an Isolated thud In the disUnconscious 18 Days. :anvas. Feeny feints with his left but tance and the crescendo of an apIsllp, L. L After being unconscious the other draws back a pace warily. proaching shell. It bursts like an elder for IS days here, Miss Urling Valentine Ihe feint has told Feeny something, powder puff,, high and to the left, but has recovered from concussion of the snd there is the quick phut-phof some of the shrapnel reaches one of brain sustained when she fell from her leather on flesh as he leads a left the shell holes. horse some time ago. CHICAGO FANS DREAM OF WORLDS SERIESj ' : ! n SKIRMISH BOXERS self-defens- well-mea- nt GEMS OWNER OF WHITE 80X AND SOME OF HIS 8TARS. long-rang- Self-Defens- e. m 1 six-rou- full-pow- er n The continued success of the Chicago White Sox leads the baseball patrons of the Windy City to believe that the two contenders for the championship of the diamond next fall will be the Giants and White Sox. While it Is rather early as yet to pick the Sox as winners of (he American League pennant still It must be admitted that the team from the west looks to have a mighty good chance fdr the flag. The Sox have the pitchers and batsmen to delight the heart of diaries Comlskey. First base, a weak spot since the slide of Jlggs Donohue, Is now acceptably filled by Chick Gondii, ,who can hit as' well as field. Risberg fills the shortstop portfolio commends-abl- y and Wearer Is better at third than any other position on the Infield. Eddie Collins hns not been bitting up to form so far this season, but Is likely to cut loose at any time. In the outfield Felxch hns come through better than any young outfielder In the country. There are untold .possibilities in this alert young man who is playing the game up to the Former Manager and Brilliant Shortstop of SL Louis Browns Takes Over Wichita Team. Bob Wnllnce, the Browns former Bill Byron Is still doing duty manager nnd brilliant shortstop, hns ns Umpire one of the members of John Teners assumed the management of the Wichita (Western league) club, replacing staff. One of the SL Louis scribes has dubbed the Reds the stcln-fe- d pretzel euters." Clark Griffith has picked up a collegian named Billy Murray to try out. at shorL Ilellmnnn, the right fielder of the Tigers, Is doing a lot of real hitting at present Ty Cobb Is lending the batting list of the American league by. a very safe margin at present ut they should feel a little homesick at Note Simply Read: Revenge. Letters from home written In Detroit Louis Slber found a note Friends and Relatives Urged to Write a cheerful vein will work wonders In on the front door of his fish market keeping up their spirit and inspiring Cheering Letters to the them with the determination to give rending' simply: Boys In Training. Revenge." their best service to their country In After searching his store and findIts hour of need. Great Lakes, 111. A movement to ing nothing missing, Louis threw the Dring a little more joy Into the lives note Into the stove, taking It for a sees if the young men at the United States Joke. aaval training station here has been 1 FIND VAST DECREASE IN Later Louis discovered that during , started by the Loyal Girls of America. the JAIL BRITISH INMATES S night some unknown enemy had .This society hns Inaugurated a enm- the water from his fish vat drained e e oalgn to impress upon the friends and 2 filled It with kerosene. The loss and London. The war has had ! relatives of the bluejackets the Imwas $150. In effect of crime the letreducing portance of writing them cheering ! Great Britain to an astonishing ters. There are now 7,000 Chopped Off Finger. degree. Dont write your son John that you men and 700 fewer women fewer Ind. George Rosek, a Hammond, In Is the while he away ire unhappy in prison than at the beginning service of his country, says Miss GerWhiting butcher, hacked off his thumb with a cleaver the other night A trude Elmore, secretary of the society. e of the war. The total number of I friend was condoling with him. Dont tell him that his favorite dog J prisoners Is 9,032. the friend dont see how you did Is pining away. Tell him how envious said. Well, It was just like this," said the boys .at home are of him and his Rosek, lifting up the cleaver, and lay 7,000 Await Artificial Limbs. opportunity. Tell him that you expect London. It Is officially announced lng his hand on the blockt He let the him to make good, that he must make good for the sake of himself, his home that 8,805 artificial limbs have been cleaver fall, and accidentally chopped made for soldiers, by private firms at off two more fingers and a part of and his country." Many of these youthful sailors are a cost of $036,000, and that more than his hand. away from home for the first time In 7,000 additional men who have lost their lives and It Is but natural that limbs are waiting to be supplied. The absent are always In the wrong. CHEER THE . St Louis must be baseball mad-m- ost every week there is a. pep bottle brigade In action. JACKIES times. Perhaps the Reds woujd like some Insurance to assure them checks In the absence of world series money. John McGraw lias not given out any' more Interviews since he repudiated the one about President Tener. : If - Mc-Gra- w BOBBY WALLACE AS MANAGER - HELP lillt In all departments. Joe Jackson in left field drives the ball with tremendous power and Lelbold Is an Ideal right fielder. Behind the bat, Schalk Is a catching machine, one of the beBt In the country. The Sox pitching staff,' consisting of Clcotte, Scott, Benz, Faber, Russell, Wolfgang, Williams and Danforth, has been going great guns. A White Sox pennant this year would be extremely popular and at the same time be a good thing for baseball. The Red Sox have copped the event with too much regularity to suit the fans? outside of Boston and they welcome a change. The Giants should be able to land at the top in the National league. has a very strong team In all departments and the other clubs w'lll have a Job on hand In bolding the Giants In check. The Phillies have done surprisingly well and If Pat Moran can keep his present gait he will be entitled to all of the praise that can be lavished on him. The Cubs also seem to have possibilities. By brushing the memory a bit it comes to light that little Bobby' Byrne of the Phillies Is well in the veteran class. Bobby Wallace. Joe Kelly, who was sent to the Frank Isbell, who also owns the club, Braves by the Cubs as a part of the but has been forced to find n successor deal for Manager Mitchell, Is hitting the ball hard. because of the Illness of his wife, Wallace should make a good minor Baseball players are subject to draft league leader, while he Is still uble to It Is to be hoped when at the front play a good infield. the force of habit will not make them' Jim Johnston Through. try home run Reports from Brooklyn Indicate that Jim Johnston has about run his course Despite the absence of JB00 hitters os a Dodger. He Is said to be plate from their lineup, the New York Yanshy since he was hit In the nose by a kees have been putting up a grand batpitched ball last year and he doesnt tle In the American league pennant get on often enough to show his speed. race. |