PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS ~ York.—Plans for a new Sunday Brethren known, Bloomsburg. — Falling into Fishing Creek near its mouth, while Earl, 10-year-old of Lance cious, of Catawissa, was drowned. The body was swept out into river by the high water and has not been recovered. Mount Carmel.- room in the front of the basement, which caused $8000 damages to Kiefer Building, also damaged much stock of a dry goods company. Several firemen were overcome by smoke, caus ed principally by smoldering articles and rubbers, New Castle.—Mrs, Rae Muirhead is combining her work as city police mat- yon, with evangelistic efforts. She was formerly with the Blhy Sunday party of evangelists. On Sunday after- noon Mreg., Muirhead addressed a mass meeting of women in the Croton dis- trict and in addition to telling of her work in cleaning up vice In the city, conducted a meeting of an evangelistic nature with good results, York.—Work of dismantling one of York's two big breweries started. The York has sold its bullding to the York aMnu- facturing company. It will now be used for the manufacture of ice-mak ing machines, Ellwood City.—J. Wilbur Randolph Post, American Legion, has purchased the Park building, a three-story brick, which will be used as the Legion home The postoffice is on the first floor of the building and the other two floors are occupied as apartments. Pittsburgh. —United Attor ney Driscoll presented a petition Federal Judge Thomson asking that a government the alleged use the malls scheme to defraud by the Erie and Rubber company, of Erie. Bloomsburg. Drinking which her mother had poured Into an open starting =a fire, of Rohr Her her back it was writhing in pain, Seranton of the Lack held the exercised hy who, a Coal In this city was due to a ried on by caused subsi aging churches, residence prop The General and contempt der in the m New more, automobile as it was plunging down bO-foot embankment Ebervale . Ebervale land Coal company the men were with Altoona The the Penns~'vania to decrease, according to officials here. who say the number of tives stored along the company’s lines now totals 1200, an increase of more than 100 during the last No tices have been issued announcing the closing of thirteen small on the Middle division on Sundays as part of the economy plan. Greensburg. Alexander of this city, has been appointed the American consul to Honduras, Central America. He left immediately for Honduras to assume his consularship duties. He iz the son of Mrs. Nancy K. Sloan and the late A. M. Sloan, Esq. McDonald. —Sleeping sickness caus ed the death here of Roberta David son, aged 8, caughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. G. Davidson. The girl was stricken about three wee 8 ago, Her fliness puzzl-* physicians called until her uncle, a doctor practicing in the east, was summoned and pronounced her ailment sleeping sickness. Blood tests confirmed his diagnosis, Last week the child slept eontinuously. Hazleton. —William Bicking, of this place, whose back was broken three months ago by a mule, died at the State Hospital, Connellsville, — Kicked by a cow, Everett ¥F. Humes died here, his neck being dislocated. Lancaster. Eight miles of Lancas- ter county roads on the state plan will be resurfaced this year, Lancaster. The Lancaster General Hospitil faces a deficit of $15,400 for the year starting last june, Ashland. From the effects of a fall several days ago, Fdward Sutto, 76 yeurs old, a clothing merchant here, died, York ~-Two new posits of the Amer- fean Legion ave been formed in York county, in Delta and’ Dallastown, Columbia. ~—While engaged sawing togs on hie farm, Noah Ginder, 054 years old, was struck a violent blow fn the stomach by the end of a log causing his death In a few hours, Uniontown. Deserted on her wed ding day is the allegation in the di- voree getion of Mrs, Ray Collier of thig place. church, here, were made =0n Fire in the has been Brewing company Slates to made into In a Tire investigation be of kerosene vessel preparatory to Z-year-old daughter few Tu Idella, later turned the child Hess, died a Vrs mother had momentarily and when she saw George W. Miuxey, court, Judge syanna county up police power of the state as Mayor Alexander Connell the year ago, closed pany's Oxford mine worl The action of the n Heged reckless mi $ t f Judge Frank Superintendent John G for opinion « Manager Haves ir violation of a court or connection with the seizure of ine hy the mayor land. —G A. Parthe of this place, jumped from his Cumber near his home, strike occurred at the of the Jedds High because some of ion buttons of trafic colliery volume over railroad continues idle locomo week. stations Sloan | Prackville. — Willlam Young, of Gordonville.~~Benjamin Hershey, 67 years old, of this pluce, while operat- ing a trimming machine, lost the thumb and fingers of his left hand. Harrisburg.-—~The public service com- i mission has approved applications for | bridges filed by the city of Lebanon | and Allegheny, Bucks and Schuylkill | countles, Harrisburg. —Thomas A. Dunn, of Pittsburgh, was elected president of | the Pennsylvania Ice Manufacturers’ Association at the closing session here, Uniontown.—Entering the store of the Uniontown Dry Goods company | here through a rear door, burglars took | $2200 In cash and Jewels valued at | $600, Pittsburgh.—Fifteen girls and a {| number of other employes of the Oro- tech company, toy manufacturers, es- caped “from the company's building when fire began In the basement of the seven-story structure. The mapager of the company stood at the eleyator on the first floor and directed the girls to safety. He wag overcome hy smoke and was removed to the street where he was revived. The damage was slight. Uniontown.—Following the discovery of six diphtheria cases and one death from that without a quaran- tine of any kind the several hundred children in the Berkeley street school have heen placed under quarantine and will be treated by the school physicians and special nurses. Only one hour be- fore the death of Miss Flora Taylor was a physician called and the health officials notified that she had been suf- fering for about a week with diphthe ria. Ceutralia.—The caves has struck Columbia county disense menace of mine the southern end of for the first time, and fifty miners, riding in the first trolley car toward Ashland had an almost miraculous escape from death. of the the dations bridge on drop into the mines. The of the car did not notice started over the bridge the cave it late stop and he put on more speed. car reached the other side In but the bridge had sagged two in the middle, Pittsburgh is=ued bench f Henry T ian of the his son, When he saw was too for him to safety, Federal warrants Judge BOND 1, chief of city property, OWIser bureau Edward, and James Han bartender for h wr him, at £10. for his son and Hauser were among the 20 to be a Townsend was fixed XR nnd S000 They nl Indiet. with [ee rsons ag inst whom ments wero rned, charged ng the Volstead zle Officers « the ret local Army grant. officers he the + heen Mirse in reach my authori i1lts the reg. begin nn hearty sapport, Eshelman, tle merchant, Axle of a have aged 16, son Green is alleged to confesses] to post. containing £2000 from the Phila delphia Federal Greencastle First village mail in in his age Bank National Bank while leserve acting messenger baxes near us money was found candy e wers of Greencastle, dra tmreaus home The youth admitted taking also is to have very valuable legal docu Commissioner Bonebrake ing ments, some court in Scranton, Greenshurg When a revolver which the children of Charles Dalton, of Youngstown, playing, clattered to the floor, it was discharged and a two-year-old boy was shot through the first and fourth fin gers of his left hand, both ballets be ing imbedded in the celling. Pottstown. With two revolvers in his possession Jesse Amele, a for. mer business man, created terror on a prominent street by “shooting up” things generally. Two girls narrowly escaped being struck by flying bullets before police arrived and locked up Amele, Altoona.—Rocking the county for miles around, 12 boxes of dynamite exploded in the powder house of the Katon Coal company, at Mahaffey, blowing the building and an automo- bile to atoms. The cause of the ex- plosion is unknown, Chester —Two hundred members of the Chester County Corn Growers As. sociation of which David CC. Windle Is president, held a meeting here and Congressman Butler acted as toast. master at a banquet served in the rooms of the New Century Club, many sections of the county being rep- resented At the business meeting the question “What do the farmers of Chester county most need?” was discussed by many, the consensus of opinion being that better laws pro- tecting the farmers would be the greatest boon, Hazleton, Classes in millinery have been started at the silk mill te teach the girlg how to make their own East. er hats, Sunbury-—Held up by a masked highwayman Carl Barnhart was rob bed of $11, Kittanning. ~-John Rinder, aged 72, owner of a farm In Plum Creek township, wns found dead in his home, Rinder lived alone and had not been seen for two weeks, Hazleton. ~The postoffice here show. ed a gain in January and February of 42 per cent from the sae months in 1020, - BOXER WHO CLINCHES IS CALLED COWARDLY Referees Who Give Draw De- cisions in Same Class. There Is Winner to Every Contest and He Ought to Be Declared—Draw Is Not Fair to Fighters Nor to Spectators. “The boxer who goes tearing into a clinch is a coward, and a set of offi- clals who are unable to find a winner after a lengthy contest show a weak- ness which should exclude them from the pastime,” sald Jack McAuliffe, re- tired lightweight champion, while fan- ning with a group of enthusiasts the other day. “Just a lack of initiative. The prop- er sand Is not there and they are just as cowardly as the fellow who the clinching and grabbing In a con test, “There {8 a winner in every test, It does not make any difference how it is, the winner is there, and he ought to be declared, fair to the boxers, COon- close nor is it fair is arrived at. It is all wrong. where, during a season there are 1.000 OF More races, may appear to be the winner there rarely have any the proper selection. “Boxing referees should sit tight their judgment. Even if they their selection I think it Is much ter to have tried to do right. ize that the officials here have a tough task on their hands In the clubs where local pref pronounced. may be that some of our officials swayed by those yelping, howling, tin horn sports who shout their heads off for a boxer on whom they have risked a few measly dol ; “It is net h sny this gbout these officials on even and ferme, is the judges err bet. idice Is so with any prejudice that 1 gumption to right thelr decision TWELVE-YEAR-OLD BOY IS SWIMMING WONDER siep fe: up and rlessiy.” Though only twelve years old, Ches- ter Vaden has already won the fancy championship at Poly Prep in Brooklyn, N. XY, and is of the school's swimming the members of which are diving school all Swimming experts who have seen him 5 in the East, of All Kinds Willard maintains he'll be no jockey for any trial horse, England thinks Frank Moran is the greatest heavywelght since Joe Beck ett, * * The Charter Oak stake of £10,000 will be renewed for the 1921 Grand Circuit, . & » Cyril E. “Truck” Myers, (eft end, has been elected captain of the Ohlo State football team, ® * ® It is safe to predict that there will he a new welter champ In 1087. Brit- ton can’t last another 16 years. . * - Willard plans to. enjoy himself be- fore “taking.” He's selected a swell spot on Bradley Beach, N. J, to train in. - . » Ludy Langer, American swimmer, get new world's record for 300 yards and 300-meter swims at Hobart, Tas mania. * . June 28 is the date for the Yale Harvard rowing regatta this year, when the varsity, junior and freshman boats meet, «0» Stands to seat 10.000 persons will be erected for the national lawn ten nis single championships by the Ger mantown, Pa. Cricket club. " » Davey Jones of Chicagd is swim. ming for Brown varsity and recently in New York swam 100 yards in 50 flat. The national collegiate record ia 06 2-5. - — HI sto & TT Candidates for the Columbia Crew have resumed work on the photo shows a tentative crew at work, Houten, 7: Rufralo, bow. ————————— —————— ————— _— JOHN MAULBETSCH TO COACH Former Michigan Football Been Appointed to Teach Okla- homa Coliege Team, John F. Maulbetsch, captain of the mwentioned a8 all-American half John F. Mauil stsch, head «conch M appointed A, and back, has of the eleven. ORiahoing i i International ter to Get Chance on Senators’ Curving Staff, Frank Brower, who International league biffer SORBON Washington Judge's berth burned HE 8 before up home going for will run inst to ug a candidate a at first base, started as and Lee nu i won 13 gar this a ni- gpring. He Washington versity. In 1015 he and lost five for Utica, Corps Jes ann co A. indians Last Season Is Turned Down by Dunn. President Jim Dunn of the world's champion Cleveland Indians has put a crusher on Joe Harris’ hopes of re turning to the fold, When Dunn heard that the first baseman whe jumped the Injuns last season wanted to hop back to Speaker's tribe he shook his head and sald: “There will be nothing do- ing along that line” M’BRIDE IS MADE MANAGER George McBride, known as wash fngton’s “grand old man of the dia- mond,” has been made manager of the Washington ball club. McBride will succeed President Clark Griffith, who will confine himself in the future to the executive end of the ball club business, 3 Yan and The onrsmen are: Brodil, stroke: Thowps on, 2: Baseball Notes Akron refuses to he bound the International . = It’s a rubbe * Manager Robin still on tne Lunt slops, son of the Dodgers is for prowising back- ned as tral LR G1 {former Murray, s Red ner the Boston Sox is a George Gibs added Jolin B Tenfi, to his Sherw was wit! KRixteen thousand il be when » new stands of BNE Ww accommodated compieted. The ferred its cla paw pitcher, of the Coast league. - San has trane Ross, s¢ Sacramento ciub The Bt. Louis er, to Los Augeles ax the final payigent for Pitcher Bill Pertica. * - - Robert Coulson, once an outfielder for the Brooklyn Nationals, is seeking ton county, Pennsylvania, » * » the New York National league club, his club will cop the pennant, * s » a big job, according to Joe O'Brien, secretary of the club, dozen applications in every mall, ® » - In the days of long ago Hughey Sox, was rated a8 ome of the best fly chasers and batters in the game, - - - Ray Fisher, veteran star of the 1019 world's series, is slated for the minors, according to reports from Cincinnati, Several Coast league clubs are after him. * * » Johnny Bates, one-time outfielder for the Reds, who Is working in the ship yard at Baltimore, is out for a job either as umpire or scout for some club, LE a Everett Yarvan, a catcher, who led the Western league last season In home runs, with 42, has signed a con- the Chicago Awerican league club. *« » » Bubbles Hargrave signed his con. tract with the Reds—quick! “I've heard Garry Herrmann often ralsee salaries without players having to suggest IL” says Bubbles, ' * ® » Clark Grifith says he would turn down an offer of 850.000 for Nick Alt rock, the comedian of baseball, “Nick's value, unilke n player's, in. creases with age,” seys Griff, GRIDIRON PLAY AIDS PLAYERS IN BUSINESS ies mm Former Football Stars Smashing Line of Industry. Game Teaches Tenacity or Purpose and Pcrogverance and Is Best Busi. ness Preparation Any Young Man Could Have. of the politi y former stars rot are smashing try, finance and wer they hit the au: H. Edward better known Biil"-—ix the biggest of the lot, : ally and otherwise, He captained Princeton's 1800 eleven the oolleg grid line dus football line Willi Nobody co charging. Now he's Internal collector with headquarters at billion dollars passes yearly. “Big Bal’ finance which than being Brickley! Kicker never lived. Brickley is a broker street and worth nearly “Just like playing the gnme ye Brickley. “You uscie and might~ the other fellow legitimate methods.’ difford R. Black is another who is a Black ca called hi he's a broker, Tenney, Princeton's WR now vice National oor for the Becond New dis York through his is a com How one captain, And A greater drop iN a now in Wall a Ly n wilting power ir . plained Ya m finan elever Brickley, Harral They » presiden bank, New York most in football nled “They count in mot rush st Princeton surance broker “Fooths taught gaye Bootl wif purpose the 1} bu FJOung man SCHOOLS TO DEVELOP STARS Manager Mitchell of Boston Braves Says It Is Only Way to Obtain Baseball Players. ang develop ay in the Keep them Js Fred Mitchell, for five years if necessary and if ron lot you are way shead, “Buying and selling of big league The trouble is that there are not enough to go around, and mana gers and owners are cauticus about INTERESTING Pennsylvania and Cornell will hold a dual track meet May 14 in Ithaca, . . . Golf officials are considering boy scouts as safest solution of caddy problem. * - - Annapolis Naval Academy may send f teamn to the Penn relays if permis sion is granted. % The Navy is pleased that its game with Penn State will be played No vember 12 on Franklin field. . 8 Fiske Brown, heavyweight cham. plon at Harvard, has been elected captain of the Crimson wrestling team .« 5 » Davidson, the most dependable printer at Cornell in dual track meets, failed to land a place In the intercol: leglate, . 0 F. C. Strife, heavyweight wrestler at the University of Pennsylvania will be lost to the team for the remainder of the year because of a splintered ver tebra. : . . ® » Bill Roper, Princeton's foothal coach, is opposed to Bastern-Pucifie const football games, He says the real strength of an Invading team ean. net 1 be tested after 4 monotonous train
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