are ia PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS | Pottsville. Stanley Mease, aged was instantly killed by kill. Mease was employed by Edward Rehrer, a farmer, and agaipst the young mule, which was un- broken and being used to with horses. There was no witness to the accident, was Was in a position showing the fight he made for his life. Northumberlard.—When a desperate of base ball Eugene Sweeney sitting 30 feet away, was struck squarely between the eyes. He suffer ed a badly broken nose an¢ ed his sight is impaired. Greenshurg, directors chamber of commerce B. Miller president, Hazleton .— talian de scent commemaors- tion of the anniversary of Italy's en- trance In the World War, Altoona.—Altoona school who resign to get married more lucrative offers from other tricts will Jorfeit £100 to the district. The school board has decfded to require each teacher to provide a bond of $100 the faithful ance with the terms of tract to ren 1 on the for the full nine months, unless In capacitated through illness or disability. Altoona emplogs 300 teach- ers, most of them young women. of the Frank The elected (itizens of held a parade in teachers or dis- local fcr compli- her con teaching corps his or Bowers, of x1 at decorated by nese award as ment with the of the highest of valor republic, the Decoration Beautiful C of the arain rop Bowers is an engineer breakwater the dang when a Ja kaku Mar compan steamer, ked on weathered a the crew whom &fhip sank and grat him with 1 Freed al arrested Gibbs the i committe on the blaze jail incendiary to the of several county arson Caused store property to the ex thousand dollars the arrival of firemen stroyed a number of Miss sued W, N. for Tollidaysbhurg Steele, who toona detaining able Annie Levy, damages M Al for force an pawnbroker, store and his of her in confiscation property, was awarded a lic £3000 by a jury in the Blair county court. Miss Steele formerly was employed by Levy Pottsville.—A Was ba a jury the wt of vere ! special investigation Dierschedl and of Fire Warden William Rismiller, Port Carbon, who found at the hottom of a mine cave-in, 200 feet deep, where he had fallen while fightinr forest fires, Witnesses testified that Sharp Mountain, south of Port Carbon, is honeycombed with mine breaches and that, where the surfac looks safe, it is apt to cave in suddenly and engulf pedestrians. This makes it very dangerous for hunters and berry- pickers. : Harrisburg. made Coroner of death of Was dead even Contracts for 1314 than S000.000, were awarded by Com- missioner Sadler, and work will started immediately The state pay the cost except where boroughs exceed 18 feet. The projects include S708 feet in Downingtown to M. & T. E. Farrell, Vest Chester, at $154 313 85; A740 feet in Mcorrizville to Joseph Jiangalo, Trenton, at 851. 370.75: 25.49%) feet In Morris township, Clea field county, to Avery & Bailey, Philipsburg, at £307.036..0, and 2.984 feet ia Derry Township, Westmoreland county, to Zambrano, Ringler & Milli- gen, Pittsburgh, at £400.2858.190, Greensburg. —Fire is “erop” coal mines under the upper end of the Boggs farm adjoining the Westmoreland County Home proper. ty. During the World War, when the demand for fuel was to great, the “erop” coal was removed, leaving large holes where rubbish was deposit. ed, This has been ignited and the fire has communicated with the con! deposits, It is feared if not checked it will eat its way into the poor farm conl, Jeddo. Coal and fron policemen are hot on the trail of a “Jack the Hug- ger” In and about this town for the past week, Altoona. —Forest fires are raging around Wopsonock, north of this elity, and between 500 and 600 acres of tim- beriand have been burned over, Brownsville.~—~Run down by a mo- tor car, Edward Buttermore, aged 31, a butcher of LaBelle, was so badly in- Jured that he died a few hours later in the General Hospital, Mount Carmel-—-West End Plire company has ordered a new truck to cost SO000 he will ‘onds in Erte.—An 35 uniadentifieq years of age, man, and appnr- poorly the at the bay front in a near the Pennsylvania tracks The sulcide used substitute for a rope first attempt appeared un- as one branch wis found brokeu off. On his person were of a tree woods belt his as a used time card of tne Cen tral Lumber company and on a paper the name of Jim Crook. Greensburg. following burns As the result of shock he receive when he came in contact with a high-tension line ¢f the West Penn Electrie Company on May 2, Harry D. Goeh- ring, aged 21, died at his home here, Greensburg. —George WW. Chaney, 19 by a horse and severely After apparently mending, Chaney died suddenly. Hazleton.—Dr. W. W, Pealer caught a brown trou. twenty-three inches long in the Tobyhanna creek, The catch Is Greensburg. Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Gaither, of this place, have been noti- by the war department that a vessel of that department in the Pana- ma canal, operating under the artillery rervice, hus been named Lieutenant Wilso:. B. Galth- coast 17, 1918, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania were encouraged as a furnishing an auxiliary supply of high prices that followed, are the de killed off so and retarded many blossoms aditions have flowers which furnish the share of their food Conditions in become of insects with a of fo some sections the have that state 80 BOTiOUs r bees the state department of about to issue an revent them from starving or iting in quality 1 truck that Third 1 Lay i, 4 doz ast street apd n women re needed b hey SC Uredd the ng Natives accom upn night Mrs the at il that feasted Rev. and Lew Cape the mi White Haven Th i Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia will be eighteen miles by the repair stretch of rend from Haven to the Carbon Weatherly The Lu decided to e distar o } shortened f a four-mile line beyond zerne county put it in condition York.— Charged Searle, a former 16 the investigation by Pittshurgh.— Accidents the three persons, James Laughlin, an engineer, died in a pital from shock resulting from burns received the Continental Works of the National Tube company; P. Me Grath died in received whe he fell from a car, and John Cheswick died from in- Juries received at the Allegheny coun- ty workhouse, Cheswick ported to the coroner, a heavy door lethlehem dents of a occurred commissioners have LOOK] with killing John has been Guy Bude commit. pending authorities, resulted In soldier, years old, ted to house of detention an local ¥ death of at it was re caught was Seven automobile in this city end, the most serious ° when a heavy truck belonging to the over the got beyond the control of the driver and dashed over an embankment into Af tree, three men being hurt, The Ine Jured are: Earl Diehl, fractured right leg above the knee and bruises: Charles Venninger, fractured leg and lacerations of the shoulder: Leon Rand, abrasions of the body and pos- sible internal injuries, Danville.—Mrs. Sallie Hendricks, a highly esteemed Danville woman, bled to death here at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Tone Artley. Six years ago Mrs. Hendricks suffored a slight injury which resulted In a sore leg that never properly healed. The wound broke open, and though a doctor was called at once, she bled to death be- fore he arrived. She was 57 years of age. Lancaster. — Policeman Charles Weigh rescued a sleeping haby from the home of Dominic Steffart, which wag on fire, Altoona. ~~Four business houses were entered by burglars using skeleton keys on the doors and £38 stolen from cash registers which were pried open, They ignor 4 between 800 and 400 pen nies at one store, Fountain Springs.—Unconsclous for four days from a compound fracture of the skull and nose, John George, 00, Ashland, who was caught In a rush of coal at the mines, died ut the Rtate Hespital TO DISCOURAGE GAMBLING In an effort to discourage game- bling, Manager Tris Speaker of the Clevelahd Indians will mot announce his pitchers overnight during the regular had been his policy, Season, as Diamond Squibs Southern league club munagers are planning te take out rain insurance, ® 4 » Jim Dunn of the Indians spent $7. 800 for baseballs winning a pennant, » . ». They'll the George league. Babe Ruth the American soon he calling Kelly of The Giants have Dutch Reuther of the Dodgers pegged as a deceitful pitcher. * ® ® Fifty-twe players reported for try outs with the Grand Rapids Central | league club, . . * Altrock is selling himself as | as ever around the Ame rican | league circuit. : ! Nick good » . * | Ball clubs usually play best on their | J 3 | own diamonds. That's a good ad for | home cooking. * Total home runs m by Babe Ruth will soon pass tl of 114, § set by Gavvy Cravath. - » » Mack h colleg Connle as signed up on He's still looking for | another Eddie Collins » -. » more an, Leland ing a date Stanford university Is hav baseball pavilion 2K) £1 to acd built, oInmo WwretRtors . » » A scattered few can hall referee in a « the base pity it this r y but think of serving as hess mateh . are now wondering town from the same of ball, . itehers have figured np George Kelly's vy’ Il walk him “You balls hatted into have m3 pproval to keep nny » stands this year” gays loss Dm to his Cleveland patrons, - * » (‘me great source of satisfaction to Manager Gibson ! EO showing of the Pirates is the I control Elmer Ponder has been Holdoute discover that baseball is getting common like the police, the ready answer now being: “Aw, tell It to th’ judge.” . * George Stephen Thompson, fielder on the Lehigh : recently fell heir to $750,000 left him | by an uncle. right team university * . » Walter as good] as ever, to get the ball lengue batters, * - » Johnson's arm may not be but it is good enough by a lot of American | Harold Traynor, sent by Pittshurgh to Birmingham, broke in with a hig nolse Baron, getting four hits | In his first game » . * As A The Tigers have signed Leslie My. ers, captain of the University of Call. | fornia nine. for a tryout next year. Myers is an outfielder, . * * Fred Pfeffer. old-time second base. man, was bumped into by an automo bile recently and has been in a Chi cago hospital for repairs, ! - * » Fred. Clarke, who coached Lefty | Grimm of the Pirates In hitting at Hot | Springs, seems to have done the yousg | first baseman some good. - » * Joey Sewell and Riggs Stephenson. rookie Indians, have upset the well- known dope that experience is neces sary for a professional career, . - . holdout third Cincinnati Reds, again declared he will not join club under any circumstances, . * * The name of Bryan Harris, Connie Mack's string-bean pitcher, will go down in history. Babe Ruth's first touch in 1921 was made off the Texan. - . . Center Fielder Johnny Mostil of the White Sox has been having trouble with lameness In his legs and this gives Amos Strunk a chance to break in, : Henry Groh, man of the hase- has the LA One by oné Judge Landis is getting nequainted with the big league stars, “See the judge first,” Is a mighty handy way for managers to quaff away their troubles. *.« * » Dud Brannon, the youngster from Enid, hus shown such qualities with Kansas City that Manager Knabe has made him the regular first baseman, sending Bunny Brief to right field. Not Been Invincible. Yankee MHurler Decries of Spit Ball and Says Arguments Against It Are Not Bound— Walsh Was Effective. “The Quinn delivery spit stoutly, than the Yankee pitcher, ai spit ball to neers all right He and holds that tion to It. “It is to OOD in hi decries be &i there NO More 0 bail ble pitcher we ever Pitcher Jack Quinn of New Yankees. was as good ax Walsh the hitter's good batting delivery threatening making a or chances ne to of average.” will disagree with Quinn that wig the most effective of all pitchers who used the saliva ball. Next to him the one who knew the of the delivery better else and who came scientifically effective He and Walsh though there may that Coveles Few anybody to making it Jack Cheshro, master of it, those who maintain with it Chesbro. Burleigh Grimes also ranks high as to skill with the wet fling, but he uses it a great deal, whereas Dick Rudolph and the disgraced Cicotte were quite it, but didn’t employ it as much. They employed it more in conjunction with other deliveries. Urban Shocker has as puzzling a spit- ball as there is at present, one with as deceptive quirks as Chesbro's, ball players say, but he bluffs a good deal with it. He uses a curve ball often when making the motions of the moist ball, and uses the two as part of ef- fective strategy. curve ball himself some, nowadays. as Bill Doak Is effective, but he is uncer tain. Nifty Bunch on Bench to Select Hitters From, s———— With Frank Brower on the piteh- ing staff and Bing Miller and Hank Shanks doing utility duty, Manager McBride of the Washington team will have a nifty lot of batters on the bench to pick pinch hitters from. Be sides those named there’ll be Pat Gharrity, extra catcher, and Pitchers Zachary and Courtney, both of whom cau whale the bell Toronto cricket eouncll includes 23 The “flouting” golf ball is of flouting talk, x . - The army may establish a big polo center at Camp Dix, N. J. alnie v eling a s gets Dickenson, who will « ne be baskethall team a regular for two years » * * Chauncey Simpson, “Bob is glistening losworth (Mo) high school brother of the famous on the track team * - - Students at Northwestern univer sity will have to swim for their diplo mas In futo It's 8 new athletic re quirement - * * We don't know whether Porky but if he behind it ule, has one he Millerand to be President of France do given the winner of ght championship | America they amateur lightwe bouts, In give ‘em | belts, AGAIN IN NATIONAL LEAGUE | Umpire Bill Brennan Who Jumped to Federal Organization Secures His Olid Position, Bill drennan, after an absence | is again on the staff of the National vmpire Bill Brennan, ieague umpires, Brennan jumped from the National league to the Fed. eral league at the time of the base. ball war. Though regarded as one of the best umpires in baseball, he had been unable to find a place in the ee gt te ii ie fi i A i ie i major circuits, CARL MAYS SAYS: Pitcher Carl Mays, Yankee sumarine pitcher who threw the ball that heaned Ray Chapman, Cleveland shortstop, says: “Fewster crowds the plate too much for own “He makes the pitcher take all the risk, “The pitcher has the right of way to the space above the plate and does not like to have a bat ter crowd “No pitcher can throw where he wants it all “1 admire Fewster's “But hig safety close, the ball the nerve, *" time, he's too nervy EE BPA AAPA RRP RGR We rt ER Baseball Notes The Cards are helng shuffled roughly the National league - * - | in Whether he wears red or white Farry Hooper can still * . * BOX, sO0CK the aptie Jim Dunn, pdmits Le ball, owner of Indians, has the best buse- » * . Dopesters who picked the Yankees offering to sell out to no are agers win wilh clerks yon 313 Dempseys and Goldie Rap through having a half pound GoCtor- his name of yellow hymans “Rice” Sam has rampage started market went on a The gince the Washington cl hit homers, gone up with to ub and *. eo first as play for Of Pp for Mal! Barry, who Hartford last the Arthur Irwin, played and acted won't Year of team, a Duffy of the a real star in Clark Pittinger, the Red the Mint Manager Hugh «ays he has in making TT 4% 0» Doyle, thir Ralph College former Holy Cross baseman, is expected trial . es 0» for a Babe Ruth will never be arrested for three meals a week, » » - The Southern league season Is really on. Kid Elberfeld was chased out of the ball park the other day by Umpire Jack O'Toole. * - - Wilbert Robinson is a fat prophet. He told the world that the Robins were a ball club when his “Big Six” pitching staff hit its stride. - * » Last spring Doe. Johnston hogeed the limelight by hi=s hitting This spring it's his brother Jimmy. ‘Soe difference. "Sall in the family. - - * Pilg Bodie may have his faults, but he can boast that there is nothing wrong with his knees, something that, Babe Ruth and Bob Roth can not say) - - - Frank Willson, new umpire In th American league, is sald to have som of the mannerisms of Bill Kiem o the National in calling ballr and strikes. : LI John McGraw says Curtis Walker is one of those players like George Burns, never has a bad day, but is Just as steady as a clock, always tries to do what he is told to do, and gen erally does what he tries, ) i
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