———— "PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS Allentown —The heard of governors pf the Lehigh Valley Moter Club started a movement te appeal to the state highway department fer the phristening of the state road from Phialdelphlia to Allentown via Lans- fale, Perkasie, Quakertown, Coopers purg and Centre Valley as the Liberty Bell Highway. Reading.—Mrs. Margaret Franklin and her daughter, Elizabeth, reported to the police that twe swindlers ob- tained from them certificates for $6000 worth of stock in a nstional music company uvpon the plea that they were meeded because the divi dend rate was te be raised. Several other persons had »narrew escapes from the same swindlers. Harrisburg.—The appeintment of Henry Dauman, of Willlamspert, as an Investigator, was anpounced by Auditor General Lewis. Carligle.~When A. J. Wagner sud denly became 1If on a Sunbury street, some one stole his $100 watch, Pittsburgh.—A temporary injune tion restraining members of nineteen labor unkons from striking and thus tying up the work on the new home of the Mellon National Bank was granted by Federal Judge Thomson after a conference with counsel for a sub-contracter on the structure. Ac cording $0 the attorneys, sheet metal workers took exception when ecarpen- ters were engaged to hang metal doors and threatened to walk out This would result in a sympathetic strike of all crafts employed on the building, it was sald Harrisburg.—Under a ruling of the workmen's compensation board hos- pitals will be permitted to charge more than £100 maximum established by a former ruling for care of cer taln compensation cases. The modl- fled ruling provides for extra charges in extraordinary cases when proof of such extra charges Is approved by the board. ! Greensburg. Three firemen were badly burned while fighting a fire In the residence of W. F. Zercher. Zer- cher was awakened by smoke, which filled the house from the basement, where the fire started. He carried out his five children, who were asleep on the second floor. Sunbury.-——Because he stole coal to keep his family warm, after the poor board had refused him aid, William Grissinger Milton was arrested by the $1,000,000 Milton Manufacturing com- pany. Judge Strouss took compassion on the man and let him go home, Greenville.—~Joseph H. Conwell, of Erie, was burned to death in a small out-bullding adjoining the Bessemer and Lake Erie raliroad shops. His charred body was found beside an overturned oll stove. He was a rall- road carpenter. Pittsburgh. —Firemen used several barrels of mash to extinguish a fire which started when a still exploded in a sub-cellar of the home of John Lipscomb, In Homewood. The fire. fighters discovered It was Impossible to drag hose Into the secret cellar, so they made use of the mash. Two stills were seized and Lipscomb was arrested. Lancaster. A “mourners,” Including eity officials and newspapermen assisted In the periodical obsequies of John Barley- corn at the police station when 270 gallons of liquor were headed for the Conestoga creek. Some of the stuff already had started to eat Its way out of its metal containers. Star Junction.—When her clothing caught fire from an open grate, Miss Elizabeth Willlams, aged 19, was so badly burned that she died at short time later in the Connellsville State Hospital, Pittsburgh. —The new Liberty auto mobile tannels through the South Hills were thrown open to .the public in order that experts of the United States bureau of mines might make a test of the gases generated In the tubes by the motor exhausts. Auto mobiles passed through at the rate of 200 an hour in the morning. Lancaster.—In the absence of his mother at market and while his small er sister and brother played about the kitchen of thelr home, unaware of his plight, 5-year-old Samuel Kline, of 408 Rockland stréet, alone In an up- stairs bedroom, received burns which resulted in his death two hours later. * Prompt action of Frederick Bowers, of 404 Rockland street, extinguished a fire that the boy had started with safety matches and saved the house from serious damage. Easton Miss Florence A. Shafer, of Bushkill Park, started sult against a neighbor, Harry E. Waiter, for $25, 000 damages for Injuries sustained when she was struck by his automo bile last May. She sustained two broken hip bones, a fractured pelvis and other Injuries, Including one to her fight eye, which she claims will be permanont. Ransom,~—About 150 inmates of the Danville State Hospital for the In. sane will be transferred to the new almshouse of the Pittston poor dis trict here. Quakertown. ~—Awaiting In the out er office of Dr. J. A. Welrback for treatment, Mrs. Allen K. Stoudt, aged B81, died very suddenly In the pres. ence of other patients, York—Four magazine solicitors, eanvassing for subscriptions for a ple. torial weekly, were arrested here on charges of soliciting without a city license, They were sentenced to pay $10 fine each. small group of Bellefouta—Lawrence Roberts, col, ored, of Venango county, pald the penalty for the murder of hig father- in-law, James Lawrence, by electrecu- tion at the Rockview penitentiary. Roberts killed his fatherindaw last August, wae convicted in November and sentenced twe days later by Judge COrisswell, The mext day he was brought to Rockview, put the au thorities there declined to recelve him and he was taken hack te the Venan- go county jail, Lavcaster—r. James P. Ziegler, of Mt. Joy, celébrated his 75th birth- day Im the General Hospital. A com mittee culled upon him at his bedside and presented him with a purse con- taining seventy-five $5 gold pleces, one for each year pf his life. Reading.-—-As the result of a bullet wouzd Ip her abdomen, Nancy Boots, aged 19, oolored, died In a Reading hospital to which institution she was brought from & shanty at the John T. Dyer quarry im Bebeson township near Gibraltar, on Sunday. The girl said that she shot herself while clean- ing a revolver. Three colored men arrested, told Gifferent stories, one of them saying that Samuel Green, a friend of the girl, did the shooting. Green has net been found Arnold Stabbed In the breast by one of three thugs who attempted to rob him on a street here, Chief Thom. as J. Fitzpatrick, of the fire depart- ment, was taken to a hospital In New Kensington. . Physicians sald there was slight hope for his recovery. Lebanen—Fire destroyed the sov- ered bridge over Swarta Creek near Jonestown, this county. The bridge burned like tinder, the flames, fanned by high winds In zero weather, defy- ing all efforts of Jonestown and Leb- anon firemen to extinguish them. The loss is placed at $510,000 and falls upon the county, A lighted cigarette butt carelessly tossed from a passing automobile is believed to have caused the fire. Delano. —Eight hundred feet of track were built here by Lehigh Val- ley {lroad engineers to rescue a big locomotive, which sank thirty feet threugh an embankment, State College.—Robert M. Foster, a former member of the legislature and postmaster here for eight years under the Wilson administration, has announced his candidacy for delegate to the Democratic national conven. tion. Bellefonte.—~The three prisoners, who escaped from the Rockview penl. tentiary, were captured at Coburn station by prison guards. They were lodged in the Centre county prison, The convicts are Frank Campos, Erle county; Frank Ritchie, Westmore. land county, and Robert Morton, Cam- bria county. Brownsville—Eighteen guests in the Storey Hotel, In the business sec- tion here, experienced difficulty In es caping when the structure was dam- aged by fire. A number of gubsts who stopped to dress were carried down ladders by firemen. The dam- age was estimated at $12,000 Altoona. ~The convention of the United Mine Workers of District No. 2 will be held there beginning March 11. Scranten.~—More than 100 sheriffs, their chief deputies and solicitors gathered here for the annual conven tion of the State Sheriffs’ Assoclation, Pittsburgh William E. Sage, who was convicted of murder In the sec ond degree for killing J. A. McNair in. the Pennsylvania rallroad station ten years ago, was sentenced to serve not less than three nor more than six years In the Western penitentiary. Sage, who fled to California under an- other name, and became a respected citizen of Bakersfleld, was found by the San F¥ancisco police, York —Eleven hundred. employes of industrial plants here have turned In $800 in subscriptions to the Harding Memorial Fund, Hollidaysburg.—Blalr county's dl rectors of the poor have asked the commissioners for $12.000 less this year than last for the operation of the county home and hospital Wilkes-Barre. Luzern. county's ex. penses during the past year amount ed to $43058202 according to the an- nual report submitted by County Con troller Jaul J. Schmidt. This amount was $348,000 greater than the receipt for the year, but a balance of $527. 852 In the treasury at the beginning of the last fiscal year left a balance of $180,167.55 In the treasury at the beginning of the present year, Bloomsburg.— At commencement ex- ercises of the training school of the Bloomsburg Hospital, Miss Esther Klinger was the only graduate. Scranton. —Opening sessions of the annual convention of the women’s Bethlehem were held here, Mt. Carmel.—While chopping wood to rekindle a fire at the Westend Hose House, Frank Mallnowskl was struck In the eye by a flying board and may lose the sight of the mem- ber, Trafford —Michael Early, formerly chief of police In Tatrobe, was elect. ed chief of police here, Gettysburg. ~~ Ten-year-old Osear Rohrbacker died from Injuries sus. tained last Sunday when he fell from a porch, Jeannette.—Mrs. Maud B. Tresher, newspaper woman and member of the school board, announced her intention to become a candidate for the legis lature. Hazleton —One mile of nickels is the objective of the men of St. John's Primitive Methodist church, to wipe out the balance due on the new bulld- ing. Avoca ~Frank Sullivan, a track walker, was killed by a Delaware and Hudson train. ; Danville~~The Retail Merchants’ Association re-elected Bruce W. Leihy president. i BHOO000000GOG000G00000000 Good One on McCoy Kid McCoy, one of the famous stars of the ring, was in a fan ning bee In Los Angeles with Clif Jordan, former boxer, now the traffic officer at Second and Broadway, New York, at the Ver- non coliseum, An elderly man In the crowd brought up the Ed Dunkhorst- McCoy fight held years ago. Mc- Coy fanned with the man for a few mingtes and, turning to Cliff Jordan, sald: “Clift, I want you to meet an old friend of mine from New York state.” i Turning to the middle-aged man he sald: “CHE Jordan is one of the best poys ever developed on fhe coast.” The two solemnly shook hands —and then some one snickered. McCoy had Introduced Cliff Jordan to his father, Pat Jordan. SEES NEED OF CODE FOR YOUNG PLAYERS Daly Works Out Grid Rules for Boys Under Fifteen. Belleving-<that the modern game of football as played in the universities has certain characteristics that make it an admirable game for the youth of the nation provided some of the elements of danger are taken out of it, Maj. Charles D. Daly, former coach of the Army eleven, has worked out a set of rules for boys under ten and another for boys between the ages of ten and fifteen. Those codes werq presented at the time of the N. C. A. A. meeting with the recommeiia- tion that they be inserted In the Inter- collegiate rule books, but no action was taken. “ “Almost everywhere you go in the fall,” sald Major Daly, “you see youngsters handling a football. The desire to emulate thelr ‘Big brothers Is everywhere evident and I helieve would give the smaller and younger boys a game which Is adapted to thelr against injuries which young boys are subjected to If they play the Intercol legiate game without the protection afforded the intercollegiate players. “For boys hetween ten and fifteen I would suggest that In order to elimi. nate tackling a rule be provided where. by a player carrying the ball ean cry ‘held’ and the play cease, the situation being the same as If the referee had blown his whistle, ' “For boys under ten I would advise that the game be made a kicking apd passing game only, and that tackling, throwing and Interference be pro hibited. Also that running with the ball be prohibited. All kicks and passes should be heeled. I would sug gest that there be a formation similar to the usual scrimmage formation and that from this the ball thrown or kicked forward to a player on the same side, who must hold the ball in order for his side to retain the ground gained. The attacking side should be given four attempts to re tain the ball by gaining ten yards. The rule should give the defense an oppor tunity to knock the ball down or to catch and heel It In order to get pos session. The ball would progress in this manner to either goal line just as it does under the rules for older players. “I think that the adoption of some such rules would tend to increase the interest In the game by giving the boys of this age a distinct set of rules set down by those In control of the college game.” New York Schéolboy Is Champion Speed Skater Raymond Mubray, thirteen-year-old New York schoolboy, who is the cham- plon speed skater of his age In the United States. The youngster Is here shown demonstrating his speed during the final Ofymple tests held at New. burgh, “Pie” Traynor Is Having Trouble With His Eyes Report is that “Ple” Traynor, star thirdsacker of the Pittsburgh club, and generally regarded as the best young ball player in the National league, Is having trouble with his eyes. Traynor was taking a college business course, starting his studies Immediately after the close of the playing season. While the trouble Is not, regarded as seri. ous, it Is sald a prominent specialist has advised against his placing any unnecessary strain on the eyes for this winter at least. ity in England and Australia. Ww * . of “hardening up.” * ee » decisions, * * * has signed a contract as a coach for the Athletics, * *® * Bob Bescher, former National league star, has received notice of his sale to association. * » ® Walter Gayer, | captain of the 1924 Creighton univer | sity fgotbell team. His home is in Janesville, Minn, * & » Frank Chance, newly appointed man- ager of the Chicago White Sox, ex- pects to start the 1024 season with the 1928 lineup In the field * * - Roy Whiteraft, former manager of the Norfolk, Va. baseball club, hag signed to manage the Terre Haute, Ind, club of the Three-Eye league. ® % ® Tommy Bramell, trainer of Abe At. | tell and sparring partner and manager of Terry McGovern, has been signed by the St. Louls Americans as trainer. . * » President Christy Mathewson of the Boston Nationals, has figured it out that on paper the Braves have a bet- ter than 300 batting team for this year. ® * » Nick Allen, catcher with the St. Paul American association baseball club, Is to be the Saints’ new manager to suc. ceed Mike Kelley, now manager of Min- neapolis, » a. » Jack Corbett, president of the At. lanta club of the Southern association, announced the purchase of Ray Fran. cis, left-handed pitcher, from the De. troit Americans. - ® Bobby McLean, former national professional Ice skating champion, Is sued a challenge to Art Staff, national champion, for a series of match races. Staff is In Norway. * * 0 Pennsylvania university's new sta- dium returned a profit of $73,127 In its first year, according to the fipancial report of the athletic association. The receipts were $577,724. ® * » Oregon Agricultural college football team will play the University of Ne braska at the epening of Nebraska's new stadium, . seating 80000, on Thanksgiving day this year, ee 8 » Next fall on November 8 PHnceton will tackle Harvard at Cambridge; No- vember 15 Yale will appear at the Pal- mer stadium, and November 22 Yale will entertain Harvard in the New Ha- ven bowl. ® & Charles Dornkett, pitching ace of the Cleveland sandlots, who pitched the Tellings of Cleveland to the world title in class AAA of the National Baseball federation, has been signed to twirl for the Boston Americans, * » » The Waterbury club of the Eastern league announced that Willlam (Kitty) Bransfield, veteran first baseman and of late scout for the Chicago Cubs, had besn named manager for 1024, succeed. ing Herman Bronkle, . 8 9 The famous Schuylkill river stretch of water at Philadelphia will be the scene of the annual Childs cup race May 81, In which Columbig-—present cup holder—will oppose Princeton and P Ivania elght-oared shell crews, PEPE 00 4400400000404 0004 Fred Pabst of Wisconsin university is shown making a jump In the ski contest held at the Lake Placid club, New York, : OPP L LVL L004 LHP PLH0 4M Called Ump a Shirker A young lady at Navin field last summer sald to her escort: “Why doesn't that other man catch some of the balls? It isn't fair to let the little fellow catch them all” “What do you mean? asked her escort. “I don't understand “Why I mean” said this fair young thing, “that big man in the blue uniform with the big life-saving apparatus in front of him. Why doesn't he do his share of the work? “Oh, that is the umpire,” an- swered her escort. “He isn't supposed to catch the ball” "Well, I don't care, it {sn't falr and he Is much bigger and not nearly so nice looking” An exclusive photograph of Walter Camp, taken in Atlanta, Ga, where he was attending the annual convention of football coaches and the National Collegiate Athletic association, Old Players Serve as Polo Grounds Officers There are three ex-ball players serv- Ing in the capacity of spheial officers at the Polo grounds who once held exnited positions in the national game, They are Amos Rusle, Dan Brouthers and Bill Dahlen, Rusie ranks as one of the greatest pitchers of all time, He had a fest ball comparable only with Waiter Johnson's smokiest and a curve with a whizzing hop. Had he been fortunate enough to have been a boy twenty or thirty years later than he was he would have drawn a $20,000 salary and had bonuses, workl's series cuts and vaudeville contracts to swell Lis bankroll, But Rusie was of the ploncers. He played big league baseball when sal- aries were low and attendance light. His steel.-muscled arm gradually crumbled with the years. His blinding speed left him and his curves no longer had a “break.” So he drifted out of baseball altogether and at last became a laborer in a lumber yard, Working with the sectioff gangs he had time to think of the glory that had heen his and to curse an unkindly fate for having been born too soon. Finally John McGraw heard of his plight and brought him to New York for a “cushy” job and the pleasure of being with men who loved the game as he had loved It. : Rusie has been opposed to McGraw on the diamond many times, but John admired the burly man who had been He Sreatust t iccher of his day and pro #gainst a poverty stricken old age ; i # - SEPARATING THE GOATS The old soldiers marched to the church and halted in the square out- side. One wing of the edifice was ub dergoing repairs, so there was room for only half the regiment, “Sergeant,” ordered the captain, “tell the men who don’t want to go te éhurch to fall out.” A large number quickly availed them selves of the privilege. “Now, sergeant,” sald the captain, “dismiss all the men who did not fall out and march the others in—they need it most.” ONLY PART OF HIM FELL “When you caught Willie in the pan- try didn't he fall?" “No; only his face fell.” Obscuration. An orator, 10 be exact, x ramble through philology, And make it hard to find the fact In all the phraseology. At the Photographers, “My dear Miss Snugg. why have you tied your skirt together below?” Miss Snugg—Someone told me 1 The Wrong Answer, Wife—John, does my rouge show? Husband-=<No, for goodness’ sake hurry. We're half an hour late qow. Wite—Well, If 1t doesn't show I'll have to put some more on. DUMB SHOW “He gets big money for making » dumb show.” “Who? “That movie star” Modern Improvement. Our troubles in the days of oid Were unto a policeman told. Now orators stand In a row And tell "em to a radio. Anticipated. *So Bii¥ins tried to get a patent on a machine to detect when a man is Iy- Ing? “Yes, and some wag in Washington wrote him that such a machine was constructed ages ago from one of Adam's ribs.” Say It With Flowers. Besgle—I'm never golng to speak to Jack again. He sent me 28 roses for my birthday, the horrid thing! Tessie—Don't be angry with him for that, dear. Perhaps he couldn't afford any more~Ladles’ Home Journal, Unbreaking the News Clancy—Mrs. Murphy, yure son Mike has just fell off th’ scaffolding and kilt himself, Mrs. Murphy--Mereifual hiving! Clancy—+Alsy now! "Tis only his leg that's bruk, an’ it's glad ye will be to hear It whin ye thought he was killed entoirely.—8ydoey Bulletin, ' Threatening a Bolt. “You will thunder down the ages” sald the constituent with fulsome flat. tery. The great politician looked at him perplexedly. “Sometimes I im. agine I am going® to thunder,” he sald To Help Matters, Theater Manager-—I can't use your play, sir. It's too long for the stage. Amateur Playwright-—But, I POY aw—look here—aw! Can't you length en the stage, you know? Her Mistake, Usher—Lady, I think you have wrong seats. May I see your stubs? Lady (somewhat deaf)—Y man, 1 want you to deand To not smoke, Ouch! “My,” exclaimed Mr. Klumsay at the cotillion, “this floor's awful slippery. It's hard to keep on your feet" “Oh,” replied the fair partner, cold: ly, “then you were really trying to. ( thought It was accidental.” i A Different Man, Irate Housewife—Ain't yon the same man I gave a mince ple to last Christmas? Tramp (bitterly)—No, mum, I'm not, and wot's more the doctog says 1 never will { : NE oA od
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