PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS Unlontown.—A posse of fifty citi gens, county officers and fire wardens, tains near Hopewood, found William Close and Scott Robinson, Uniontown lads, who disappeared. fnto the mountains with a pet pony to blaze a new trail. When darkness way out of the woodland. Exchange. —While returning from a wedding celebration, Stanley Gen was beaten unconscious with a club and his gold watch and money taken. Pittshurgh.—Business of the annual convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians came to a close with the organization of the elected board of officers. Holloran, of Heckscheville, was ap- pointed chaplain and Danlel B. O'Don- nell, of Wilkes-Barre, chalrman of Irish history. The meeting place for sessions ficers at a later day. Pittshurgh.—8eeking to protect their employes from the operations of bhoot- leggers who make their way into the mills and peddle moonshine whisky, officers of the Neely Nut and Bolt com pany caused the arrest of George Ki rich. He was fined 8100 In police court. The complaint against Kirich declared that after he sold whisky In the mills one of the purchasers was seriously hurt In a mill accident. Erie.—Vincent Mezzacato, fifty years old, shot and killed his wife, Caroline, 48, and falled In his attempt to end the lives of two of his sons, aged 18, and Thomas, at Kearsarg, south of this city. A posse of state police and deputy sher- {ffs is now searching the woods near the home for Mezzacato, peared. an absence of several days, he tried to force his wife to give up money she had obtained from the sale of farm produce. His two sous came to the who disap- ed to beat her. man firing missed. then started He at turned the sons, the heart. York. —Wlilbur E. lasco, Henry Maul, Edward Cavs naugh, Lewis Johnson and John M. Giesey, six of the defendants implieat- ed in an alleged attempt rob New Hellam Distilling company ware house, appeared before Judge Wanner, to were each sentenced to pay a fine of 830 and costs of prosecution. Seranton.—Twenty-five steel loaded with coal and timber, locomotive were completely wrecked when a Wilkes-Barre & Eastern rail road train ran away four miles down the Moosic mountain. All members of the crew escaped serious Injury by Jumping. The train had left Suscon, Pa., when the engineer discovered the alr system would not operate. He tied the whistle down to warn everything ahead. As the train raced down the mountain it crashed into a number of empty cars at Moosic, near here. The locomotive and cars milled down a steep embankment and plied up In a mass of debris. Pittsburgh. —The Public Defence As sociation filed a bill In equity asking that an Injunction be granted against the Allegheny county commisisoners and the county contreller and treas urer, restraining them from continuing the expenditures of money “needlessly for the maintenance of the automobile department.” The bill contalned the allegation that more than $008 650.26 had been expended for the purchase of sutomobile trucks, maintenance, supplies and insurance, which sum, It wns charged, was “unreasonable and far beyond the sum necessary and suf- ficient for the business of the county.” The bill further asked that the court make an order surcharging the county officials with all money which has been “fllegally” paid out. It was claimed that the expenditures were more than $400,000 In excess of the money used for the same purposes during the pre. vious administration. New Castle—Attacked by a negro in a South Side residence, John Batley, of this city, owes his life to the time ly Interference of “Tweeny.” an Alre- dale dog, the property of Mr. and Mrs. care and a scene of the attack. Balley's throat was badly slashed, but hospital au- thorities hold every hope for his re covery. The dog roused by Mrs. Mo- rosky’s screams, attacked the negro with such ferocity that he was obliged to flee. He was later captured by the police while making his way to a labor camp south of this city. Mrs. Morosky was also Injured in attempting to drive off the assallant. Allentown.—While fixing his auto. mobile, preparatory to taking a trip with his family, Harvey 8. Kuhns, a telegraph operator, was fatally strick- en with heart failure, Conyngham.—What Is sald to be the oldest house In the Hazleton region is being torn down by Lewis Beihler to make room for a modern bullding. The old dwelling was put up 130 years ago by John Waechter and the heavy beams In It have shown little deters. oration, being In such good condition that they will be used In the remodel. ing. Mechanics Grove Mapleton B, Min- nich, escaped death when he fell from a scaffold Into the belt of a threshing machine, suffering a fractured rib, broken left collarbone and body bruises, Doylestown. The Doylestown Demo erat, one of the oldest weeklies In Pennsylvania, suspended publication. The paper was founded in 1818, and has been published continuously since that time. Simon Cameron, well known in the politics of the last century, was the owner of the paper in 1821. Pottstown.—J. GG. Felst, a local man- ufacturer, will relleve the home scar- city here by constructing fifty modern homes on a large plot In the northern suburb, already provided with wide streets and beautiful trees. Each house will be in a 50 by 200 plot. Solo- Freeland.—John Witches, a coal death in the Eckley colliery of the Le- Working Ing and tumbled to the bottom, a dis- tance of seventy feet. When workers her to aged Reading. of $1000 ball on a charge over the ownership Four fumes Pittsburgh. hy persons and of SCOres tank In the basement of Kramer's res taurant exploded during the noon hour woman employe was rescued by firemen who were protected by gas firemen were overcome, er recovered. Lancaster. with impressive ceremonies, including an address on “Charity” by right Rev, burg. which In years gone by placed noted on the diamond and gridiron, the suffrage amendment did which the gathering Was passed, not at the At the they held an election, real elected women to every of- club, with Mrs. Clark Bar as president. It first time In the history of athletics In this region that women have controlled a men's athletic organization. Harrisburg. —Reports of the appear- ance In Lower York county of Oriental peach moth, a pest from Asia, which women took of the club 3 SG f Of in n, women, forming a the is the has caused industry. Frank B. Secretary of Agriculture Willits received specimens an investigation and Inauguration of to be the pest suspected old, called him for breakfast they found him dead In his oid from heart fallure Easton. —8obbing and year-old Florence Slemmer, in juvenile - der, a Bethlehem Steel company offi- cial, two weeks ago. She sald that she under her grandfather, William Christ. man, and how she thought that hy from a life so distasteful to her. officer, Paxtonville—~Mr, and Mrs H. H. sary of thelr wedding at thelr home here, Pottsvilie.—Henry Berger, a mall carrier, was struck and seriously In- Jured by an automobile, Lewistown John Teats, had the point of his elbow clipped off when he struck against a casting. Uniontown.—8etting fire to his clothing while playing with matches, Arthur LaClalr, aged 3, is in the Un- lontown Hospital, suffering from burns all over his body. Sunbury.—Boatmen, lock tenders, collectors and grocerymen and all oth- ers connected with the old Pennsyl- vania canal system neld thelr ninth annual reunion at Rolling Oreen Park, near here. Reading.—The playground season closed with a mammoth indoor circus attended by thousands of youngsters, Roaring Springs. Samuel Ware, an aged resident, was killed when he was run down by an automobile bus. Lewistown.—A slick stranger looted the till of the little grocery of Mrs. Peter Lyter of 825, and made good his escape. Greensburg. ~The Knights of the Flaming Circle, an anti-Klan organt- zation, Hghted a large flory circle on a hillside west of here, Postsville More than 300 descend. ants of Eliza Madara, from three dif. ferent states, held a reunion here. Sunbury.—~John Kelster suffered a broken arm and his brother, Lester, a dislocated wrist when thelr automobile upset In a collision, Reading.—Willinm Nagle, aged 17, while swimming in the Schuylkill river at Gilbert's Lock, near the Reading Paper Mills, was seized with cramps and drowned. rr rr A A TA TL ER RAR ARAL RT RAR ARR RRR RE R RRR. Beas an can ———————-—— lnsnnasnnmeosannernmnnens College First Sackers Beveral great first basemen have come from the colleges. Bisler was pot the only one Fred Tenney was the first and the ploneer of the modern meth ods In playing first. Cleveland bas picked up Knode, former University of Michigan piayer, Tris Speaker says he is to be # star. Speaker should know something about it (me meanmnamenEnnnnna®nnest court at the famous Wimbledon tennis | Prrasssssssnsnssssssansnney Ruth Is Often Passed A baseball expert says that in his seventy-eighth game of the season, played In Cleveland, Babe Ruth received his one-lina- dredth base on balls. If Ruth is walked as frequently as that in the second half of the season, the Babe will receive 200 walks this year, That will establish a new record for bases on balls, but it is hardly a record that the lube cares much about. Ruth's high run of passes was In 1020, when he walked 148 times. That record was approached only once In modern baseball, Jimmy Sheckard, former Cub lead-off man, walking 147 times in 1011, But with Sheckard walking was a science. He tried to outguess the pitcher, and when he walked it was the result of a battle of wits, EE ERR RRR Howard Ehmke has done some pitching Every time Tyrus Cobb looks at the pitching records he has a temptation to throw a fit traded Elimke to Red Sox last wwinter because he did not agree with Howard thelr personal relations. Ty took Pratt and Rip Collins for Ehmke and did not get the best of it by any means. Pratt has been collect- ing splinters on the bench and Collins hasn't won many games for the Tigers while Ehmke has shown form might have won 16 or 17 games for the igers with the kind of support How- ard would have gut with Detroit, hi strong the in Recognized in Yucatan Baseball has become an officially recognized Institution in the province of Yucatan, in Mexico. Recently baseball outfits were purchased in the States for distribution to clubs being organized, and the government print. ing office In Yucatan oe More than that, at government ex- pense a man has been sent to the United States to study the organiza- baseball in Yueatan. Use Hundred Years Ago Ever since stop watches came into harness racing In minutes, seconds and quarter seconds, Some 60,000 harness horses have in the 2:30 lst, and some hundreds of thousand races have been timed under this method, Indianapolis Has Been in Four Major Leagues Indianapolis has had quite a ca- reer In organized baseball, the city having been In four different leagues at one time or another, It Is now In the American asso ciation and has been for 21 years, It was in the Federal league three seasons, In the National league one and In the American league one. Walker Wants $150,000 rr EE EEE EER RRR RRR RRR RRR RRR ER... Sam Bohne Is Star Manager Pat Moran's hustling Red- | legs are playing as good a game as i y other team In the National league. { man, bas done much to ald Baseball Notes yellow his club. The peril ma now a8 a yearning to kill the umpire { when the home team is losing. - ® - inifests he Atlanta club purchased Freddie | Heck from the Charlotte Sally league { club and plans to use him in the out- | fleld. “ddie Beis, pitcher with the Toron- {to International league hans | been sold to Worcester of the Eastern | league, team, Johnny Mohardt, former Notre | Dame star, didn’t iast long with At | lanta and wasn't worth the transpor { tation, . . . The Mobile club looked over the dls | cards from the defunct Cotton States | league and decided to take on Bill | Statham, ® » - { The Detroit club is reported as hav. | ing purchased Sep Good, a southpaw { pitcher, from the Bay City club of the i Mint league, » . - The foul strike rule was adopted by the National league In 1901. Two years later it was taken up by the American league. » * * Cleo Carlisle, brother of Outfielder Charlotte team, | hag signed a contract to play with Charlotte next season, » - - Bill Balley, veteran southpaw, has exchanged to Omaha by the Houston club for Tex McDonald, no | less veteran infielder. | - - . { Eddie Meeks, outfielder transferred | early In the season by the Louisville club to Petersburg, has been released by that club to Wilson, . *. ® The veteran Roy Mitchell of the Dallas team Is again lald up with rheumatism and probably won't do much work from now on. - » » Harry Strohm, second baseman of the Topeka team of the Southwestern league, was sold to the Milwaukee American association club, * » . Reports are that the St. Louls Cardinals have purchased Outfielder Russell Scarritt from the Johnson City club of the Appalachian league. * * . Harry Emory, outfielder, formerly with the Birmingham and Nashville clubs, has been signed by the Little Rock Southern association club, . Richard Reichie, playing center field for the Red Sox, retired four Cleve land players In a row in the second game of a recent doubleheader, . sn To make room for Rube Robinson the New Orleans club released Pitcher Eddie Matteson, the Nashville club claiming him at the waiver price. .- & » Pltehior Molly Craft seems to have found himself In the Virginia league and is pitching wioning ball for Nor folk. Another former Southern league rltcher who is getting by Is Lefty Sigman sent by Mobile to Portsmouth, Li IS MATTER OF DOUBT Sammy Strang Loses Something He Never Hada Bamuel Btrang Nicklin, owner of the baseball club, has lost something he never had. Nicklin, per- haps, is not particularly known to the Glants, Is known from one end of the country to the other. one and the same, with a record as the premier pinch hitter of baseball, It is alleged that he made 14 pinch hits in as many con- secutive games. This record questioned, and an iovestigation made, It resulted in determining that Sammy did pot perform any such feat. That really has not de tracted from Strang's fame 98 a pinch- hitter, however. The fact remains he was 4 deerhound for speed and could either hit it out or bunt. the kind of a oinch-hitter he was. He undoubtedly made his full share discovery figuring that a hit timely i¢ game was the same as a pinch That Is not accurate. hitter is one who bats the ball substitute for another batter. a player is playing regularly he may make a hit In an emergency, but that fact does not make him a pinch-hitter as the term is known in basebsll. The old ¥ han 15 years about Strang and the 14 hits as a in succession is simply a many idual perform will not stand the of baseball fiction like so of | when SCOTCH given a good raking over. Strang went to b 15 possibly times In less than one month story that he had made 14 pinch hits in succession grew out of that fact. In those 15 thines at bat he missed making a pinch hit about as often as he made one. The claim for the championship can now be put forth by gome one else. Strang had been con- sidered the leader for so that the tithe never had been sllotted to any other player, who the the to he has reputation CTOWNR A8 anyone else, Many golfers, no doubt, would be much happier If self-respect didn't require them to lie about their BCOTres, nere - . ® Ed (Strangler) Lewis, heavyweigh wrestling champion of the world, is 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 250 pounds, . ad * With the Increase In the popularity of tennis throughout the tenuis league. . » - . The federal treasury expects to have a good year. The receipts from the taxation of boxing exhibitions are the largest in history. - * - The efforts being made in Spain to supplant the toreador with the bail player will simply move the bull throwing to the stands, *. » . The national body governing pro- fessional boxing was formed in 1921 in New York. Fifteen states are rep resented in the organization. *. * =» Pat Ryan, world's champion ham- mer thrower, Is practicing for the Olymple team. Ryan can throw the hammer for an average of 175 feet, °* ' - » * The executive committee of the United States Olympic games is come posed of prominent sportsmen, num bering, all counted, 856 members, - * . It is said that about nine of every ten big league ball players are super stitlous In one way or another, and almost all belleve In some “sign.” . * » At the present tax of $10 on each billiard table throughout the United States, the government receives more than $4,000,000 a year in revenue. « * » Nearly all the larger government schools in China have American couches for baseball, track and tennis and English coaches for soccer foots ball, ; . Some tennis critles object to Miss Wills wearing an eye shade while playing. They point out that the best players in the past have not needed headgear, but have appeared in con servative costumes, INTELLECTUAL DISTRIBUTION “Why do you decline to go to Amer fea to lecture? “1 doubt the wisdom.” distinguished European, my culture abroad and n able for a mere will be better business tourists to come thelr own hotel bills | expenses.” Washington Poker Rules. “In New York | saw & {| tising device. Three | were fastened to a placard in a window. The placard read: “*Three of a kind takes a pair.” “Don't try that in Poker Flat. You'll { only start trouble. The first | will claim that three of a kind two pair.” led rep the “of carrying king it avalil- fee. It encourage and pay und traveling Siar. admission 10 aver here adver bills shoe nent lar one-Gq Suspicious, Mrs. Gaybuck—How did look after you'd been away for a week? Mrs. Gayboy-—Just th Hw {I left i¢. 1 don’ was home a tlie house when Quite Smart at That Oh, 1 He you think I'm She—W know What then you're not | you were, COMPLICATED “This bit of Nerature hasnt any plot to speak of, but it's got one guessing.” “Detective story, eh!” “Mope, time table” B8ome Difference. iife's my» Ces Are ¥ tle f When The That the it Are the big int tories IN dis char Nas Jou see In an Goes the Limit First Clubman-—it's a | one's wife interest in nice to have take an mes business Second capital, Ditto—Um! Mine takes the Softening the Blow, “a you tell Biabbsley that 1 was ia big fool? W-oeel-l I dan’t belleve so, 1 never { thought sou were so large”—Farm Life The Peaceful Angler, Don't think of your business or pro- your ! fession while fis} wot and your enemies i { Yes, Why? 1 He—Why do you girls enjoy weep ing nt She] matinee? don’t know. Why do raving at the umpire? the you | men enjoy i Feline, Madge—Mre, Swellington has In vited me to her big dinner tonight. Marie~] wonder who disappointed her? BABE Everybody at the party was talking at once They wore quite right. Everybody might as well talk, There was absolutely no foar of inter- rupting anys- thing worth lis. tening to. » Rustic Confusion. A oity lass once heard the moan Of a sad cow by chance, “ Bhe thought it was a saxophone And started in to dance Wondered Why, Wife—The doctor inquired particn- larly about what we eat, Hub—Wonder if he expects us to fnvite him to dinner? Not Interested. Mrs. B-—John, I think there's a man under the bed. Mr. B—~Well, you talk to him, and let me sleep!” Pedestrian’s Consolation. "What are those square places marked off In white paint in the square?’ “They are safety zones” “How's that?” “Well, If you stand there and are run over by a motorcar, your heirs can recover from the driver” . Waste, ‘How did you find things in Egypt “Slow, slow. There's enough stone work tied wp In them pyramids to build a city”
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