PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
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Altoona.~—A proposition
of the Huntingdcen Presbytery cn the
was not yet ripe.
Uniontown.-—If present
of the late President Roosevelt, will
de ia Uniontown for the Indepen-
dence day observance by the Ameri-
can legion. Definite
looking forward to that end will he
completed this week, it is sald, hy
the committee in charge, The e¢om-
suittee also has the assurance of Miss
Alice Robertson, congresswoman from
Oklahoma, that she will participate
in tre exercises here.
Greensburg.—The movement to In-
augurate a modern chamber of com
merce here took definite shape when
temporary headquarters were estab-
lished in the lobby of the Zimmerman
Hotel. At a meeting of business men
the camnaign got under way with the
formation for a committee a com
maittees, with
J. McTighe, Joseph Strouse, Glenn G.
¥ance and E. Arthur Sweeney sere
ng.
Bloomsburg. Struck with a base
Ball bat that slipped fiom the hands
eof a boy playing across the street,
Mrs. Callie Brown was rendered un-
sonscious, sustained a broken nose
and is in a critical condition, with
possibly a frectured skull. The boys
summoned help, and she was removed
te her home.
Harrisburg. — Equity
have been filc] by Henry Rhinehardt,
superintendent of the Bethesda Mis-
sion, against a bakery. Rhinehardt
eontends the noises of the bakers at
right disturb the slumbers of transient
lodgers, about 2000 of whom are shel-
tered monthly.
Brownsville. The Monongahela
river is being dragged for the body of
Dennis MceGillicudy, 45 years old, of
Bt. Louis, Mo., who is thought to have
sirowned. Police say he was an occu-
pant of a flat boat contalning several
persons that left Nemacolin.. When
the boat reached the Fayctte county
bank shortly afterward McGillicudy
could not be located, but a suit case
he had been carrying was found. State
police are Investigating a statement
which they sald was made by two
women passengers that two men had
beaten McGillicudy into unconscious-
ness, searched his pockets and then
threw him into the river.
Connellsville—For more than fifty
years a member of Fayette Lodge, No.
280. Kn'ghts of Phythias, Henry Gold-
smith, one of the two charter members
now living, has just been presented
with a 50-year jewel by the other
members, On Mareh 3, 1870, he and
thirty-four other persons organized
the lodge. It is believad that he is
the only Knight of Phythias in the
country who holds such a record.
Scranton~—That millions of dollars
damages to two churches, a hos-
pital, two schools, an orphanage, a
convent, and more than 300 homes,
may result fram any further mining
in the mines of the Scrob Coal com-
pany, in West Scranton, was stated
by members of the citizens committee,
who inspected the workings. It was
learned that the company has in op-
eration thirty-eight chambers, and
that they average sixteen feet. The
original haulage way into the Ox-
ford mine, which runs diagonally be-
tween Bromley and Sumner avenues,
has been closed, and another haulage
way has been tunnelled to Sumner
avenue, thence north to Lafayette
street, into the workings of the Mount
Pleasant mine of the Scranton Coal
company.
Gulf Mills—Burglars entered the
Farrell residence on the state road
by forcing a shutter on the first floor
and stole two pocketbooks containing
a sum of money, a diamond stickpin, a
gold watch and chain, a gold finger
ring, highly prized German pistol and
other souvenirs of the world war.
Carlisle.~The Carlisle Order of
Elks enjoyed a musieal concert hy
wireless in its clubrooms here, The
local lodge has a receiving set which
is capable of deciphering messages
from across the Atlantic and the Pa-
cific, and he concert, which was pre-
sumably from Pittsburgh, was heard
quite plainly.
Altoona~borty thousand pine trees
are being planted on Short mountain,
south of here, hy the Kier Fire Brick
company, of Pittsburgh, which oper-
ates ganister quarries at Brooks Mills.
It will require forty years for the
trees to grow into marketable timber,
Catawissa, Cutting glass from the
doors and then slipping the bolts,
burglars visited the Baldy and Hol-
Hngshead stores in this place and
made away with loot valued at more
than $600.
Conpellsville~After serving eon
tinuously from March 14, 1908, as a
member of the Dunbar township
school board, C. B, Franks has resign-
od on account of moving from Lelsen-
ring No. 1 to Connellsville, where he
has purchased a home.
Hazleton —Burglars scare” away
from a warehouse qwned by 8. Smul-
yan and used for the storage of $10,
000 worth of hides dropped six sticks
of dynamite in their flight as a police
man heard them operate,
Greensburg, — The senior class of
the High School Is composed of 103
mem this yenr, ‘
in
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Mahanoy City.~—~Burglars broke into
the postoflice, Ryan's warehouse and
St. Canicus church and were reward-
ed for ther efforts by about $12 taken
from the poor box in the church,
Reading. —Dangerously burned In
trying to save her little grandniece,
Catharine Caldwell, who was burned
ed candle, Miss Matilda McDonough,
Towanda.—Claude Newell, 12-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Newell,
of Porter Place, was found hanging
from a rope suspending from a rafter
The boy,
about an hour when found by his
father. A rope had heen tied to a
on which he was standing bad either
been kicked or had slipped out from
under his feet. The parents of the
young lad belleved that the aceident
occurred while he was playing Indian
cowboy in emulation of the stunts seen
in the movies,
Uniontown —Miss Elizabeth Phil-
lps, 28, was shot and killed in front
of the Jehn H. Lane home, where she
was employed. Nichholas Masuzzi, 25,
a boarder in the girl's home, is dying
in a kaspital from a bullet wourd in
the head. Accerding te the poliee,
Masews accompanied Miss Phillips to
kor employer's home, When she was
about to enter the two are maid te
have become involved im an argument.
A few minutes later eye witnesses
pistal on himself,
Pittsburgh.—W. UU. Kane, police
eommmissioner announeed that he
would place a charge of conspiracy
and eperatiny a lottery agalrst Peter
Weigand and Ambrose Weigand, both
of Pittsburgh, who were arrested in
connection with the operation
baseball pool, According to the com-
missioner the men had 83.000 base
ball tickets in their possession when
road station. Shortly after the ar-
rests were ma le police, armed with a
search warrant, raided a North Side
printing establishment and coaflscated
22,000 pool tickets,
Alona,
is a heroine,
over a chair in the council chamber,
she notified police headquarters
here as army deserters, were captured
women's ward, where
confined.
Sayre—At a recent
school board
they
meeting of the
school building were made.
fice, which it is believed,
about £250,000, will bv
will
the latest
cost
commaodate approximately twice as
many pupils as the present school. In
ent school, and lack of
construction of the new building.
New Castle.—~There is every
cation that the negro arrested in the
vicinity of Evans City and believed
tc be the man vho terrorized the "Si
wood City vicinity recentls men.
tally unbalanced.
is
racks, and is still being Lell there.
Towanda~The body of Llewellyn,
O-year-old son of Smith Ferbes, of
Myersburg, who met
ing in Wysox Creek, March 6
found floating in an eddy of the Sus
quehanna river near Sugar Run by
A. G. Frapklinn. The boy met leath
while attempting to wade
creek during a spring eshet,
Altoona. ~—Returning from
and
and
was driving; Frances
Donoghue, !'2lie Huff
George, all of Altoona,
the Hollidaysburg borough
on the mountain when the
fused to hold on the steep grade, but
escaped with slight injuries,
reservoir
from the reserve list
with orders to proceed at once
Philadelphia, where he will he
tioned. Lieutenant Fuller served two
years with the fifth marine corps in
France and Germany. He was wound
ed in action and received two decorks
tions, :
Greenshurg.—County-wide
to
tablet «iven by Mrs. George F. Huff,
in memory of the Westmoreland coun-
DIAMOND
- NOTES :
Judge Landis cculd get his base on
bawls,
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Plenty of star players play golf, yet
haven't gone to the sticks.
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Seven well-known Box are so full of
holes they can never be mended,
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Public interest Is always fleeting;
now It's on the favorite pitcher's wing.
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“It'll take a clever team te pul my
socks down this year,” says Kid Glea-
son.
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McGraw may swap off some of his
rookies, but it's a cinch ke will not glve
a Rapp.
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Manager Joe Berger of the Wichita
seam will give his brother, Bob Berger,
a pitcher, a trial.
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Babe Ruth is neted for his large ap
petite. He's even exten jute many
pitehers’ recerds.
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Baseball rules were written tn 1845,
and a way to evade them was disoev-
ered in 1845.
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We've heard of ene man coming back.
Connie Mack says bis whole team Is
going to de Ht.
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Eight Natienal leaghe managers ean
say “I told you so” H Chey cop the pen
nant this year.
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Roy Mitchell, veteran right-hander,
will try pitching for the Dallas Pexas
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Pittsborgh police wil war en base
in gambling at parka,
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A Texas leaguer isn't always a bit
Some eof them try to get inte the ma-
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Pessimism is believing
team hax no chance even before
umpire shouts “Play bal |”
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Pitcher Pete Zanhiser, recalled last
fall by Toledo from Bloomington, has
been transferred to Memphis,
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Angeles management that his
ment from baseball is no small,
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Bill Cook, first baseman, who refused
to report to the Charlotte club last sea-
sou, has signed a contréact for 1021
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about: What'll they do for
hides” when there are no more horses?
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is row playing right fleld.”
tonsils and adenoids removed during
the past winter He says he
breathe easier,
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Hobe “Home Run”
signed with the Cleveland Americans
He is a catcher.
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Lee Fobhl has a slugger in
Wetzel of Flint, Mich. Wetzel knocked
all the boards off the Michigan -Ontario
Promises to Be Fixture at Keystone
Sack for Indianapolis—Is
Speedy on Base Line.
Indianapolis fans will not be disap
pointed in Eddie Sicking, who was ob
games last year. Sicking probably will
play steadily at second base, although
He is
the ability to line them out but he ean
world war. Exercises will be held in
the county seat on Memorial day with
Governor William C. Sproul In at-
tendance. Four hundred families of
the boys will be guests of honor,
New Castle~Young ladies intend
to conduct the campaign to raise $15.
000 for erection of a dormitory it the
¥. W. C A. Fresh Air Camp at Sast-
brook without asking men to do any
of the work on the teams that are
conducting the canvass, They cxpect
to put the campaign over the gom
within a week. Miss Helen Hinkson
is chairman of the general committee
in charge.
Towandy — Fines ond costs cole
jected from dog violators In Brad
ford county have passed the $1000
mark.
© Lewistown Council rejected all
bids for paving the unpaved streets
of the town as too higin
Altoona Charged with holding up
Howard Whiten and robbing him of
an pay check for $44.05, Wesley Mills
and Willlam Love wore arrested here.
Hazleton Thirteen young men,
some of them veterans of the world
war, took civil service examinations
to qun'ify us eligibles for appoint
ment to the police fares,
Eddie Sicking.
#es in a superb manner. Bick.
twenty-three years old und It is
#t that he will be back In the
majors before another year. He lives
in Cincinnati and is eager to show the
home folk that Garry Herrmann made
a mistake lo sending him away,
we
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the photo
base. The
TELLS ABOUT ORIGIN
OF “TEXAS LEAGUER”
J. Doak Roberts Gives History of
Expression.
Disgusted Syracuse Pitcher Gave Vent
to Exclamation When Three Re.
cruits Dropped Safeties Back
of the Infield,
“Texas leaguers,” recruits or stars
from the circuit of cities in the Lone
Star state making up that association,
have wrecked many ball games when
they passed on to the major leagues,
but the real "Texas leaguer,” the hit
no matter from what state the
player who delivered it came, has
wrecked many more day by day,
of play have shown for
years,
to in the
leaguer,”
the man
“Texas
hole
when
ers, but few know the history of the
According to J. Doak Roberts, presi
slonal baseball, the expression origin-
sted In the early 9s when a disgusted
Lord! of those Texas
Bill Joyce,
Another
of the Syracuse infield,
The story antedates even the ve
Roberts, but this is his version
“Emmett Rogers, Scrappy Bill Joyce
and Arthur Sunday, three famous
the Houston club,
by John McCluskey.
first Texas leaguers ever sold to high-
er company, netting the sum of $400
managed
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“The trio were finished stars, past
masters in the art
placing hits,
their first game in bigger company
they faced O'Brien of Syracuse. Rog-
ers placed a hit over the Infield, and
the Syracuse defense moved In, ex
pecting Sunday, to bunt. Instead Sun-
day chipshooted the ball and It
dropped just out of the reach of the
shortstop, who could not get it back
in time,
“Joyce, too, was expected to bunt,
but he followed in Sunday's wake,
dropping another short hit back of
third, scoring Rogers,
“It was then that O'Brien voiced
his disgust and coined a new term for
baseball.”
TRA RAsRARARARARRRRRRRRRY,
CHARLEY RIGLER ALL
RIGHT ASAN UMPIRE
Umpire Charley Rigler likes
his joke. One night after Um-
pire Billy Evans had gone to
bed, his telephone bell rang and
Evang answered. Over the wire
he was told that a fan was
speaking and wished a decision
on a play to settle an argument.
It was An involved question
and Evans answered it at length
and with much patience.
Then the volce asked: “What
kind of an umpire is Rigler?”
Evans began to get impatient.
“A very good one; as good as
there is” he answered shortly.
“Thanks” came back over the
phone. “This Is Rigler speak-
ing. Now you can go back to
bed, Blily.” k
TMEAAARARRSARRRRRSR RR RARRN
DUNN INSURES HIS INDIANS
Owner of Champion Clevelands Places
Value of $100,000 on Winners
of World's Title.
SAA ETRRAALLATALERAAARATRELBARBBERACU,
MEAT AAA LABEL AAARALNCAAAT RAAB ABRRRBR BRR ERR.
Having won a world's championship,
the Indians are more valuable than
a year ago. At any rate, Jim Dunn
has Insured them for $100,000 instead
of $50,000, as he did last year.
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AFTER POUR SPORT LETTERS
“hic” Harviey’'s Record at Ohio
Institution,
“@hic’ Harley may have to share
kis honors as the only Ohio state ath
lete te win letters im four
#perts, fer Pete Stinchcomb, who last
All-American, is on kis trad!
BASEBALL
STORIES
Behalk is a worthy son and uo bright
Ray in the Sox luneup.
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Btealing a base isn't petty larceny,
Fans think it's grand,
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The better a reckic is with the stick,
the better chuanee he has to stick,
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“Greatest segond baseman I
worked whith,” says Bancroft
Frisch.
ever
of
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The fruits of the beseball season for
& player who pulis boners are usually
razzberries,
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The Los Angeles club hes transferred
Tex McDonald, third bowemsn, te
Wichita False,
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Plicher Joe Oofindafller of the Birm.
Ingham Southern league team won't
Play Ball this year,
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Heme Rom Puker pays the Yanks
whl win the penmant. That's the Fraok
epinten ef it
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Byrd lyme, who eace caught for
the Chicago White Sex, now is with
Bait Lake Olay.
Frank Brazil Bb likely to be one of
Joe Oesehger lg a plicher with the
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Bribery of baseball players has been
made a felony under a lnw passed by
stile days Stincheomb has conven
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Perhops Miler Huggins will play to
a full house this year. He's certainly
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A son of Bill Clark, once famous ball
player, Is a freshman at Princeton try.
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Some of the score cards to be kept
by fans this coming season will make
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rw. ———
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Pete Stinchcomb.
trated on varsity football this yesr.
He is pretty certain to annex a bas
ketball letter and plans to turn his
spring.
He was a good high and broad jump.
er as well as a dash man in his high
school days. while on the diamond he
ranks as a good fly chaser.
SPORT NOTES
It's perfectly all right for a bowler
to go out on sirikes,
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If the United States wins the golf
we'll be a monopoly.
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Horemans has gone deaf. He can't
bear Hoppe's 1.000-point title match.
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Russia is the only country the
Dempsey-Corpentier match hasn't vis
ited,
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Stanley Netts, deposed basketball
captain of Princeton, has quit the uni
versity.
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The British open golf tourney will
start June 20, over the St. Andrew's
course,
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Folks who call Johnny Wilsen the
Walter Higging, junior two-mile
champion, has been elected track cap
tain at Columbia,
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The Dartmouth varsity swimming
team has been admitted to the Intern
collegiate Swimming association,
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George Pringle, Detroit, has been
elected an executive committeeman
of the American Bowling congress.
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Now the story going the rounds is
Mack intends to retire
from baseball after 1's season.
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Some one from every country wants
take the Davis cup awey from
Causing a Jot of racket.
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Babe Ruth strikes out twice In one
Almost as unusual as it is for
the average player to siap out a homer,
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“It’s the spirit that wins ball games.”
says John Heydler, head of the Na-
tional league. Not to mention pinch
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Lehigh is sad because Onatcher
“Mike” Wilson of the varsity ball team
has signed with the Pittsburgh Nation
With the flock of new faces on the
Grover Land, veteran catcher, who
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Henry Wolfe, an outfielder owned by
Louisville American association
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With Mark Roth as club secretary,
Bobby Roth playing the outfield, and
Frank Roth coaching pitchers, the
Yankees are lodded down with Roths,
to say nothing of baving Ruth in the
party.
JACK COOMBS MAKES APPEAL
Asks Student Body to Encourage Wil
liams’ Baseball Squad to Stick
to Training Rules.
Jack Coombs, the onetime pitching
star of the major leagues, now coach
of the nine at Williams college, called
for a new order of things in an appeal
to the undergraduate body the other
day. Learning that training rules had
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