PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
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Uniontown.—Their clothes nearly
torn from them and suffering from
bruises and shock, Miss Ida Roberts,
3, and Mrs. Mary Randall, 22, of
Buffalo, N. Y., were found in an auto-
mobile on the outskirts of this city.
John Dougherty, aged 28, and Charles
Robbins, aged 25, both of Palmer, OQ,
found in the machine with the young
women, were arrested,
Pittsburgh.~—Judge Orr, in the v nit-
ed States district court, after fining
Stephen Zalenski £10 following a plea
of guilty to an indictment returned
against him in 1818, granted him 60
days in which to pay the fine. Zalen-
ski, who was charg&l with having in
his candy stolen from an
interstate freight shipment, told the
court he had been working only two
days a week. Russell ¥. Matz, of Al-
lentown, alleged participant in the rob-
bery of the postoflice at Schenecksville,
January 22, and arrested at Bellvue
by a United States marshal, was releas
ed on $3000 bail for his appearance in
federal court in Philadelphia.
Uniontown.—That there are one or
two cases of sleeping sickness In the
Uniontown Hospital became known.
One of the patients Mary Sherin,
20 years old, who resides near Union
town. She has been sleeping for some
time, physicians say, being aroused at
intervals to receive nourishment. She
has been suffering from the disease for
about three weeks.
Harrisburg.—An undertaker's bill
running for eleven years was recom-
mended to the house by its appropri
ation committee for payment. It is
for N. D. Jacobs, an undertaker at
Mont Alto, who has been looking after
burial of unclaimed bodies at the State
Banitarium at that place. He never
has been paid and an appropriation of
$3215 for him was sutherised
Uniontown.—Contending wmt her
daughter, Margaret, was adopted with
out her knowledge by Braden and
Helen Queer, Mrs. Emma Russell, of
Connellsville, presented a petition to
court to have the adoption decree re
voked. She claimed that she could
have been located at the time of the
adoption if the proper effort had been
made.
Harrishurg—The state will borrow
$15,000,000 under the $50.000.000 road
loan this summer, asking about
July 1, and $11.200000 in 1922, ac
cording to a letter sent to the legis
lature by Governor Sproul. This com-
munication was undér requirement of
the bond act of 1919, which calls for
a report to the general assembly. The
state already has ‘issued £23 800,000
in two series, on? at 41 and the other
at 415 per cent interest,
Renovo —Benjamin Alexandr, nged
40 years, a well-known hotelkeeper of
Madera, who was a member of a fish
ing party at the Archie Simpson camp
four miles from Keating, this county,
wns found dead in the woeds not far
from the camp by members of his par
ty. Alexander left enmp on Saturday
and it is supposed he died that day.
ag he informed his companions that he
was not feeling well as he started
through the woods for Kenting.» When
other members of the party broke camp
and started for Keating on account of
the cold weather, they came upon the
body of Alexander, lying face down-
ward on the path about two miles
from eamp.
Connellsville —How 2300 in an enve-
lope lay on the ground near the Mill
Run station, on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, for several hours without be-
ing noticed, although many persons
passed it, is told by Misses Fern Col-
born and Emogene Blgam, students of
the Connellsville high scheol. The
girls,” while awaiting a train, tossed
a ball around. One placed the money
on the ground so as to be able to catch
the ball and then forgot it. Their
train had gon: only a few miles from
Mill Run when the girls discoverad
their loss and informed the conductor,
who stopped the train. They returned
to the spot and found the money intact.
Pittsburgh.— Russell Hay, of Buffalo,
student of a Pittsburgh college, arrest.
ed in connection with the disappear.
ance of several automobiles, was held
for criminal court on a charge of lar.
ceny when arraigned in police court.
Hay, also known as James J, Judge,
Ig said to have admitted faking five
machines, two in Pitteburgh and three
in Buffalo, for “joy riding.” He told
of driving two ears to Buffalo, where
he abandoned them, and of returning
here in automobiles picked up there.
Mount Carmel This place will in-
stall a fire alarm system af a cost of
£13,000 to £14,000,
Oil City~The National Transit
Pump & Machine company has reduced
working hours from 48 to 45.
Lower Colerain-~Lockiaw develop
ing from a wound eansed by corn stub-
ble caused the Yeath of Chester D.
Peters, aged 14 years,
Peri Mr, and Mrs. Phitip Tongh-
ner, of Penn township, Westmorelnnd
county, celebrated their sixty-eight
marriage anniversary.
Greensburg. While crossing a street
here, Benton Gunnet, aged 76 yeaPy,
was struck by an Automobile and prob.
ably fatally injuréd,
Marion Helghts—While this place
has not had a fire in a year, the fire
company will buy new apparatus,
Seranton,~The Scranton Rallway
company was authorized to establish
an eight-cent fare, with four tickets
for thirty cents, by the public service
commision,
possession
is
bids
he
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Lancaster, A man thought to te the
mysterious “Jack, the Hugger,” who
has been seizing women and kissing
them for veeks past, was arrested
here. He [s'a negro youth named
Roosevelt Dovglas. . He Is sald to
have attacked three women apd a
man-chase followed. He escaped, but
when arrested later was identified by
numerous persons as the fugitive and
ladiged in jail, ;
Altoona~—Through the efforts of the
Blair county chapter of the Red Cross
and James I, Noble Post, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, the farm owned by
L: D. Vaughn, ok Altooaa, near the
Horseshoe Curte, has been given over
to sick, wounded and disabled soldiers
for a rest and recreation center this
summer. The farm contains 170 ACTes,
with two dwellings and barn, and
two streams of water afford fishing
and swimming.
HaAeton.—Mrs. Joseph G .bler, wife
of a former police officer, stood high
est in the civil service tests for the
appointment of eligibles to vacancies
In the police department and is a
candidate for desk sergeant, but ean.
not be selected, accordiug to Mayor
H. W. Heldenreich, because under the
law no woman is allowed to work
seven days a week In this state.
Greenshurg.—A pot of sold has heen
dug up on the farm of the late Bella
Kerr, on the Lincoln highway, near
here, Miss err ‘regarded gen
erally 8s a recluse. She had a large
sum of money at the time of her death
several months dgh, but according to
her helrs she had a great deal more
cash than they were able to find. The
heirs have announced they had found
a pot of gold, but would not reveal
how much,
Pi‘tsburgh. — Four boys ranging
from 11 to 18 years of age, are locked
in the city jail, involved, police say,
in the theft of an automabile, a double
kidnaping and the holding up of a
store, Harry Evans, 18 and Patrick
Carney, 11, according to the police took
an automobile parked in a elty streef
and drove to Oakland, where they
“kidnaped” Gregory and William
Sweet, brothers, 12 and 14 years old
respectively, from the industrial
home for boys and girls. Later the
quartet drove to Grapeville, 30 miles
east of here, It is said, and held up
small store,
Mt. Carmel—Leaning over a
foot high hanister to hand an
to her neighbor, Mrs. Anna Lobuck
Michael Bolemia lost her bal
toppled over, struck Mrs. Lobuck
over the cye with the heel of a shoe
inflicting a serious wound and so In
Jured her own peck as she landed on
the pavement that she wag taken te
hospital,
Tyrone—Falling from his train at
Van Scoyoe, Willlam Beamer, of this
place, a Pennsylvania rallroad flag
man, was killed.
Pittsburgh. Police and morgne of
ficials believe that Mrs Sophie
Sprisks, of Barton, O., *insge body
was found wedged in the pickets of
the Davis Island dam, in the Ohio
river, at Bellvue, com itted silicide
Her husband has announced an inten
tion of engaging detectives to investi
gate the cause of her death.
Sharon—The directors of the Stand
ard Tank “ar company have voted to
increase the capital stock of the com
pany fr.m 100,000 to 150.000 shires.
The issue will all*be bought by the
present stockholders, officials of the
company said, apd the amount reallz
ed will be used as operating capital.
Pittshurgh—David Miller, cashier
of the Pi turgh office of the Ham
mond Packing company, reported to
the police that a $3500 payroll had
been removed from the office safe by
two men who foreed him to give them
the combination of the safe after hav
ing attacked him in an automobile,
Miller =aid that the men drove up to
his home and Informed him that one
of the drivers of the company had
been Injured In an aniomobile neel
dent and asked him to go "othe hos
pital to which the men said he had
been taken. Miller ‘dressed and cn:
terexd the machine. After riding n
short distance, he sald, the men bound
and gagged him and then forced him
to give them the combination,
Butler Charles P. Jack=on, of Pat.
erson, N. J, an engineer employed by
the Interstate commerce commission
to make a survey of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad, is in the Butler wun.
ty General Hospital in . serious con
dition as result of coming in contact
with a high-*cnsion electric wire,
Greenshurg--0O1l has heen found at
the depth of 450
the land of the Bannin-Connellsville
Coal company near Banning. The
yield is said to he about 20 gallong a
As a result of the find it is
probable that further developmént of
the territory wili be made,
Brownsvill.—In a pistol duel at
Monvne, near here, Louis Ponti, aged
40, was shet wix times and fatally
wounded, Carmen Bonatl, aged 42,
proprietor of the boarding house
where Ponti lived, Is in the Fayette
county Jail © at Uniontown, charged
with the shooting. The twy men,
wis
ten
article
ance,
the
left the house to settle the question,
according to state police. At least 10
ghots were fired, Bonatl escaped une
hart,
Pirtshnreh —Parey Camn. honeshont
dweller, is dead from gunsnot wounds
and the police are searching for John
Jones, who boarded with him,
approved an ordinance establishing a
city manager for this place at a $4000
salary,
Mainville, ~~ Watches and jewelry
worth more than $600 were stolen hy
burglars from the store ’ of Ww. MN
Longonhesger, i
Laneaster~Tramping on com stub.
k bles and cutting a foot caused lockinw
for Allen Peter, aged 13, and resuljed
In his feath,
Baseball
Notes
Every ball team has discovered al
least one phenom.
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Many a sweet ball player turns sot
when put in the limelight.
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A manager likes to see his players
walk the chalk-—on a base on balls,
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An umpire will tell you that pop bot-
tles are made to drink out of—not to
throw,
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A successful spithall hurler has a
heap of earning power right at his fin-
ger tips.
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There is many a slip tween the re-
cruit and the manager. And ofttimes
it's. a blue one,
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Every manager hopes his team will
be able to rally ‘round the flag at the
end of the season.
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A flock of fans would like to get hold
of the sign painter who daubed the
“No Game Today" poster.
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Ernie Johnson's arm has ‘been stiff
this spring and the coast star is just
starting to hit hig regular form.
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A former pitcher In the American
league is now an oll magoate, His
best one these days Is an up shoot,
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Leslie Nunamaker and Ray Caldwell,
Indian stars, have trained at golf. Both
have lost weight and many golf balls,
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Right-siders look sweetest to Babe
Ruth. He picked 38 home runs off of
them last season and only 16 off port-
sliders,
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This ig a nice II'l world, after all.
Every big league manager hak ex
pressed himself as satisfied with his
team,
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Business circles report
Improving, excepting that there was
not one bid last week for Rogers
Hornsby.
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Ralph Perkins, star eatcher for the
Athletids, gays the team has been the
door mat of the American league for
the last time.
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Branch Rickey, president of the St
Louls Cardinals
part owner of the Syracuse Interna.
tional league club,
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Pitching to a homerun swatier Is
nothing for a pitcher to look forward
to. But a ball he Jams is something to
look backward at.
a
Salt Lake City in 1918 and quit to en-
ter the war, has come back and joined
the Los Angeles team.
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year and there aren't that many con
tests in the schedule.
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Manager Evers of the Cubs reports
he is highly pleased with the work of
Recruit Pitcher Earl Hanson, who
came from the Peoria Three 1 team.
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Wouldn't be a bad idea to let hall
players practice arguing with cigar.
store wooden Indians. Just as much
satisfaction as gabbing with his honor
the ump.
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lammed out nine home runs in practice
games, but Babe Ruth need not worry
yet a while. These pre-season phe-
noms have a fashion of dwindling back
tor normalcy.
NO CAPTAIN FOR MILWAUKEE
Manager of Brewers Confident He
Can Run Things Satisfactorily
From the Bench.
There will be no eaptain on the
Milwaukee ball club this season.
Manager Egun will do the bossing
both on the field and on the bench.
“There is no need to have a fleld
leader,” sald Jack. “I guess 1 can run
things from the bench. and when
is anything to tell an umpire I
a ne 1h et ove
Del Gainer was captain of
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wand and pow finds himself
the portals of professional baseball
but he also is a part owner of the
which ms sald to have net
the Cuban capital,
of the leading brokerage
ing out.
yise in basebal
Havana, Cuba,
sepson at
one
awner of several
al interests ure spread-
sf got
winies
He is the
men are born to be led,
is one of the latter type.
Glantz, Some
and John J. McGraw
Is Not Dangerous.
logical—How Russell Ford Was
Discovered Using Emery Pa.
per in His Glove,
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“It's more than right.
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Big Ed Walsh, once the
commented on the new lease of life
granted moist ball pitchers by Pe
majors
“The spit ball i= nothing more than
a curve ball” Walsh saifl. “It Ix not
dangerous gnd It Is not a handicap
to batting. Much of ve effect of the
Ed Walsh,
spit ball on a batter is psychological.”
While favoring the spit ball, the old
star is against freak deliveries,
“Russell Ford was the first one to
use a freaRk.ball” Walsh sald. “He
was putting floaters and funny twists
over the plate that were being mighty
hard to hit. Every one was curious
to know what he was doing with the
ball and they might not have known
to this day If he had taken care of his
glove, One afternoon, however, one
of the boys picked up his glove and
saw the palm cut out. Underneath
was a sheet of emery paper. That
was the . start—and finish—of the
emery ball”
MARTIN TO COACH WESLEYAN
Alumnus of Oberlin, Star on Track
and Disciple of Hillman, Has
Been Engaged,
Wesleyan has arranged” ‘with J. M.
Martin of Oberlin, Ohio, to conch Wes.
deyan track team this season. Martin
is an alumnus of Oberlin college,
where he was a star man on the track,
Hé is a disciple of Hillman, the Dart-
mouth coach who turned out Thomp-
son, the famous Olympic hurler,
A ————————————————————
Big Season for Rowing. a
"Plans for the most ambitious row
ing season ever undertaken. by east
completed, and the next three months
will witness 4n unprecedented number
ouch contest,
HONEST BASEBALL
Commissioner Landis,
a letter to Hugh Lacey,
troduced 8
crookedness
writing
who in-
measure to penalize
in baseball In the
Massachusetts legislature, ex-
pressed the opinion there
be laws In every state
that also would reach and pun.
igh every man who makes a bet
on a ball game nd stand
and bleachers. The best assur
ance of honest baseball, saves
Landis, is to permit a bet
to be made on a play or on the
result of a game.
that
in gra
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It Is almost harder to spell Zhgsrko
than it is to spill him.
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that nobody loves a champion.
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The Great Western light
circuit will give $105,000 in purses.
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Kentucky derby will
Churchill Downs, Louisville, May 7.
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The fight game has
“Young,” “Knockout”
made “Kid ™
and “Batting”
The University of California has
S00 students trying for pugilistie
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One of the most dangerous holds In
sion holdup.
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William H. Dietz, former Carlisle
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It’ s0 hard for Tommy and Mike
Gibbons to schedule battles, they may
have to fight one another.
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The Pennsylvania house of repre
sentatives passed a bill providing for
a state hoxing commission,
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Coach A. Niles of the Princeton
zoccer squad predicts a stronger 1921
team thiuythnt of Inst year,
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Pennsylvania's chino bagkethall
teams has turved down the challenge
of the Missouri university five.
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Raceabout class of yachte are to be
revived on Long Island sound. It was
a popular class some ten years ago.
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Sometimes you not only can’t keep
a good man down, buf you can’t even
get him down, Zhyseko, Crinstance.
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Thomas W. Murphy, famous driver
of light harness, has, it is estimated,
won over $1.000000 in his 27 years
on the turf,
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Clinton Larsen set a new Indoor
record for the high Jump when be
cleared the bar nt 6
at ‘Salt Lake City,
La
The American Polo team ponies
will be treated royally in Burope.
a
neads the Prinecton
nest season, succeeds Capt. Ashby,
male of Xie, th, Wily yeas,
Diamond
Squibs
Bq far Ty Cobb has got along swims
mingly with the Detroit players,
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In football they yell the signals out
loud ; in baseball it's a deep secret.
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Greasy Neale should slip into the
Phillies’ outfield without zny trouble
at all.
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Ty Cobb believes that a team that
hasn't got the pepper isn't worth its
salt,
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Claud Derrick, former major leaguer,
and last year with Toledo, hus retired
from baseball.
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A utility player will vouch for the
fact that you don’t have to be a lawyer
to sit on the bench.
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His
George Toporcer should be
ure
ghell-rimmed ones,
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of cheer leaders for football
15t be
Plenty
games, but none for baseball. Mi
because they're not needed,
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A protested ball game
well-known “you're the only
Doesn't mean an
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Bill Wambsganss is will
play th
nt to make
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doesn’t wi
Robert EE. Harrison, a
been elected captain of the
of Virgin His home |
cinnatl
ia nine,
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team to
differ.
Mack wrecked a ball
How
machine was
¥
Counle
give youngsters a
ently the White
wrecked,
chance,
Box
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ler and a
The 8t. Louls Browns hs
sacle man. PHI Todt has
a Babe Ruth, 8 Speaker, a Sis
Mails,
ive
been cal
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Rogers Hornsby is playing third for
the Card! The £3060.000
beauty old heist one
nals these days.
is crowning the
100,
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A home-run hitter can’t be expected
to be much 8s 8 base When
he gets through running there's noth-
ing left to swipe,
stenler
two
Molinet
team Oo%es
Captain
Rippe i
Cornell's baseball
men by graduation
Ww. F.
year,
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Harris of the Mas
“Slim” kmen says
* Ruth is
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y can guarantee that
of his games
hiz sleeve Prob.
gond ari.
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Any pitcher whe
he will win a majority
has got somothing
ably a bully
g ap
Pittsburgh scribes sare
Yellowhorse,
“Chief”
comparing
the Pira
Bender Yes
India:
cruit, to
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Connie Mack has announced the
iil he re
They are Frask Brazil, En
mett McCann, Paul Johnson and John
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Tiger
Califorui
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After playing ball in
Howard Ehmbke
Ty
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reported to Cobb
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NEHF FOOLED JOHNNY EVERS
Cub Manager Doesn™ Wonder Murphy
Tied Can to Him When South.
paw Makes Good.
Art Neh! rated as one of the good
southpaws In the National league
made hix first big league appearance
under Johnny Evers, when the Crab
was managing the Cubs. That is be
made his appearance in the ball park,
but never played a game there. He
reported In the moming. and was re
leased in the afternoon. Evers told