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In the event of a lower salary limit many of the players on the Reading [team would not report next season, is the present belief. Reading will have tt team well intacot for the starting of the campaign this Spring, if the Tri -State starts with eight fclubs, for most I of the players from last season would I Again be in harness. Boelic and John jiny Nugle are still on the Reading [o.atching staff, Mclnnls, at first base; ideason. at second base; Billy Hopke, third base, and Izzy Hoffman, Mike ■•Joyce and Coveleskie, outfielders are ' mill the property of the Reading club. The pitching staff will include Buck Ra.wsey. "Lefty" Clunn, Baker and George Osoba. Preston Cruthers. second baseman and Pat Fohen. pitcher, would lie about the only two men missing. FIXE FOR DOC NEWMAN Eastern league Player Plays In York Line-up Against Do Xcri Special to The Telegraph Philadelphia. Feb. I.—Doc Newman, i the star basketball player, who is a member of the De Neri team of the Eastern League, was fined $lO Satur i day by President William J. Scheffer ? for playing exhibition games with f other teams. Scheffer claims that Newman has , hcen playing with the York, Pa., Col legians under an assumed name, it is i understood that Newman played with York against his own team, De Neri, | last Wednesday. Scheffer. after imposing the fine, in- i formed Newman that if he played with any team other than DeNeri again he ] ■will be docked 126. PENN STATE MEN OCT Pitchers and Catchers Start Work lor Coming Season Special to The Telegraph State College. Feb. I.—The first call , for candidates for the Penn State base : hall team has been issued. All battery esplrants were asked to report. Twenty men responded to the call. Among them were last year's three regular pitchers and two substitutes and Cap- Vain Yogt. who caught all of State's gomes last season. All of the pitchers should show much improvement, for they nil re- j ceived much added experience pitch ing for various teams during the sum mer. Hesaelbacher practiced during the early part of the season with the Athletics, and later, together with both J.iebert and Wardwell, pitched for the Strawbridge & Clothier team. Sport News at a Glance The New Tork American franchise was formally turned over to Jacob Ruppert, Jr., and Captain T. L. . Jluston. Oberlln High defeated Annville High Saturday at Annville; score, 28 to 14. A dispatch from Paris confirms the I previous report that Max Ltldo, the! ■well-known French heavyweight and | at one time the trainer of Georges Car- I pentier, has been killed In action. I Joe Shugrue and Freddie Welsh have been rematched and will box at Madison Square Garden, New York, on February !>. At Enhaut Saturday night the Meth odist Club five defeated Enhaut; score, 2.> to 11. Roy L. Fisher, of Middleburg, Vt., has signed to pitch for the New York I Americans. Five Yankees are still> holdouts. Attlcks leads the Casrino league with , nn average of 200. The Alphas are' first in the race with 178. Prizes will he awarded by the Moxle Company for the best February scores. «.» • ». % - r«> "* • MONDAY EVENING, WHARTON TOSSERSIN LIMELIGHT; RECORD TO DATE ENCOURAGING Lose Saturday's Game to Quaker City Five by Small Margin; Previous Scores In their defeat by the Evening School of the University of Pennsyl | vania on Saturday the Wharton School five met its second defeat. The score, .10 to 26, indicates a hard-fought game. The Wharton boys had the best of the game until near the close. Their only weakness was brief, but It was long enough to give the Quakers a lead. The Wharton five is making a strong bid for local patronage. They are in the game for the sake of sport only and every game is won on its merits. The team is made up of former high I school stars. The five is at a dlsad- j vantage because practice must come' late at night after school hours. I One ol' the original ideas of the | : Wharton students in starting basket ball was to put the new school in the limelight, to let Harrisburgers know! what was being done at the school, j and to boost the school in the eyes of ' pupils of the two high schools of the! city with the idea of helping to enlarge j the classes to come to the school in ! the future. The game on Saturday was the last I home contest for two weeks. On Sat- ' urday night. February 5, the Whar- i tons will play at Philadelphia with the Evening School. The game will be played at Weightman Hall, Uni versity of Pennsylvania gymnasium. A return game will also be.plaved at Heading with the AYharton School five at that place. Another game is sched uled with Middletown All-Stars and a ! series of games will be played with ' Wharton School teams from Wilkes- j Barre and Seranton. To date the local Wharton five has scored 111 points to its opponents' 115. The Wharton quintet defeated the Xlid dletown AllrStars. made up of college varsity players, score 25 to 27. At Annville Lebanon Valley College toss ers won. score S3 to 19, and the Read ing Whartons were downed by a score of 41 to 25. Saturday's score was lost by four points. The captain or the !A(Y)U<S6oflef)T<S MAJESTIC All this week—The Arthur Chatterdon Stock Co. in repertoire of successful plays. To-night—"A Grain of Dust." To-morrow afternoon—"The Girl From Nowhere." To-morrow night—"The Girl In the Taxi." Wednesday afternoon—"A Grain of I>uat." Wednesday evening—"Kindling." Thursday afternoon—"The Girl In the Taxi." Thursday evening "Tess of the Storm Country." ORPHEI'M Every afternoon and evening High- Class Vaudeville. COI/OMAL Every afternoon and evening Vaude ville and Pictures. CHESTNUT ST. AI DTTORII M Wednesday February 3—John McCor maek. Tuesday. February 4 Naulty Picture Journeys. MOTION PICTURES Palace. Photoplay. Regent. Victoria. MERIT COI'NTS That theatergoers appreciate quality, is being proved these days wherever Arthur (Chatterdon and his excellent company appear. Thev gladlv forgive him for charging only a fraction of the price tliey usually pay to witness performances, many of which are de cidedly discounted by the Arthur Chat terdon company. The list of plays at once commands attention. These Broadway successes are given most consistent, oven lavish portrayals. "Kindling," which is this afternoop's bill, is being enjoyed while this is being set up by a large audience that will corroborate the claims made. James K. Hackett's successful starring vehicle. "A Grain of Dust." is under lined for this evening, and judging- by the rush fur tickets at the' advance sale, there is no question of the siting capacity being taxed to the limit when the curtain goes up to-night. Complete list of plays for the week appear in the Majestic advertisement in another part of this Issue.—Advertisement. ORPHEI'M To-day Keith vaudeville in Harris burg is eight years old. Quite an urchin now. isn't he? Accordlnirlv Manager Hopkins says we are going to celebrate. The celebration, natur allv enough, will come In the form of nn unusual array of vaudeville talent. To Joseph Hart's splendid novelty com edy entitled "The Telephone Tangle," with Dorothy Hegel and company, has been entrusted the coveted position. This novel laugh winner was one of the most successful features of l'ollies and since It Is appearing; in vaudeville It Is just as much of.a sure tire lilt. . Also our old-time favorite, Brindamour, the handcuff king, returns to the Orpheum this week nfter a six year absence, to appear in an entlrelv new act as the added attraction of the bill. Prettv and netlte Josie Heather and Henry Marshall, in songs and pat ter: the Three excellent comedians, return after three seasons in ft brand new comedy: the Rav Doolev Trio, of the famous Doolev familv ot'f funsters, is another of the attractive hits: I*ee and Cranston, in a good character singing skit, and Lohse and local Wharton team is C. Harold Wells, a former Steelton High School star. Karl F. Eastright is the hustling man ager. l ■■ m ill I ■BB# |H| <M§ C. HAROLD WELLS Former Steelton Star and Captain of the Local Wharton Five. ! Sterling, aerial wizards, will complete ; the anniversary offering'. Adver | tisement. COI.OM.U "Red Cross Mary," described by ! i ritics us being: the biggest laugh-Test in the way of a comedy sketch that ! the most fastidious could wish for, j comes to tlie Busy Corner to-day to I headline the vaudeville bill for the first half of the week. As its name im i plies, tlie action takes place in a hos pital and "Red Cross Mary" is the . fascinating nurse of three wounded | soldiers, who are all comedians of some consequence. The comedy lines and ■ situations are the richest, and the management declares that it is the I !V BI V: f!t sa ' ;,rl " li comedy sketch seen at the Busy ( nrner since improved vaude ville was installed, other clever Keith 'hits will include the Cabaret Dogs, vaudevilles best animal actors; Force «nd Williams, the splendid "rube" comedians, and Sam Harris, the popu lar monologist, in songs and stories.— Advertisement. WILBUR 18 COMING Crane Wilbur In Coming to the Regent Theater, Saturday. February <; rhe hero of a thousand photo-plays, including the most famous of all aerial pictures, "The Perils of Pauline," Crane \\ ilbur is the most advertised "Movie" star in the world. This will be the first opportunity to see him in the flesh. Mr. Wilbur is said to be just as fascinating in person as he is when feasting the eye of the spectator on the curtain. Surrounding Mr. Wil bur will be a carefully selected com pany of artists who admirably supple ment the entertainment of'the star himself.—Advertisement. AT PHOTOPLAY TO-DAY Maurice Costello and daughters Helen and Dolores, are featured to day in the Broadway-Star production. "The Evil Men Do." it is a strong and thrilling story of duplicity. An Impressive illustration of "Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out." To morrow clever Anita Stewart and Earl Williams, featured in "The Right Girl," a Vltagraph comedy. The evil men do is legion. Just so sure as we do it we can be doubly sure our sins will find us out. This is shown in plain pictures that will be a convincing lesson, a warning and a safeguard against, the evils that s6 easily beset us.—Advertisement. VICTORIA THEATER TO-DAY. RIN A WAY JUNE To-day at this house will he shown the first Instalment of the new serial of love by George Randolph Chester, the well-known magazine author of finance. This story is the first of the author's to appear in newspapers or in motion pictures. ('hosen for the title role of the film is Norma Phillips, best associated in motion pictures with the Mutual Girl, a weekly series which won favor with motion picture follow ers. June, two hours married,.leaves her husband who she loves most de votedly. Just, why she does it is a question, and Just why so many other things happen is also a question. But that is the pa-rt of the film plays. The answers are all found in the film. To day marks the first instalment, and every Monday for fifteen weeks there will he another instalment. —Adve'r- tiiement. . RARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LEBANON VALLEY OPENS WITH INDIANS Football Schedule Is Now Com plete; Penn State Is on the List Special to The Telegraph Annville, Pa., Feb. 1. —Lebanon Valley's football eleven will meet some of the strongest teams of the East this coming Fall. Manager R. E. Hartz completed the blue and white's sched uel of eight years from the gridiron, Penn-State will be met at State Col lege. Following is the schedule: September 2. Indians at Carlisle; October 2, Penn State at State College; October 9, Indian Reserve at Annville; October 16, Villanova at Villanova; October 23, Dickinson at Carlisle; Oc tober 30, Ursinus at Collegeville; No vember 0, Muhlenberg at Allentown; N' vember 13, Lehigh at South Beth lehem; November 20, Susquehanna University at Annville. New Hebrew Educational Institute Is Opened Rabbi L. Album and David Gold berg made the principal addresses at the opening of the newly organized Hebrew Educational Institute, at 637 Boas street. The institute will be open from 4 to 8 o'clock every day. The following directors are in charge: D. Goldberg, president S. Krentziuan, vice-presi dent; M. Gross, treasurer: M. E. Win field. secretary; Joseph Claster, Bax Williams, Woolf Freedman, S. Micli lovitz, Eli Goldstein, Morris Baturin, A. Dubin, X. Brenner, Levin Cohii, Max Levin, S. Fishinan, H. Coplovitz, Simon Frank. David J. Kline, B. Abrams, Jacob Furraan, Lewis Ba turin and D. Furman, directors. Complete Arrangements For "Mel" Trotter Lectures ! Two large mass meetings in Chest nut Street Auditorium to-morrow aft ! ernoon and evening, one for women and the other for men. will he ad dressed by Melvin E. Trotter, who is said to be the greatest mission worker in the United States. "Mel" Trotter is being brought to I Harrisburg for the purpose of perma nently establishing the "City Rescue Mission" at No. 3 Xorth Fifth street. |of which the following men are offi cers: President. James AV. Barker; vice-president, Luther Minter; secre tary W. G. Hcan; treasurer, Fred Kel ker: directors, Philip Reed, Harvey Buck, E. S. Schilling, E. F. Weaver, R. F. Webster. Mr. Trotter will be the guest of George W. Relly during his stay. A re ception will be given to Mr. Trotter by businessmen of the city in the Com monwealth hotel parlors in the after noon. NEW ZINC PLANT Maryavllle Boiinl of Trade Working: to Secure Industry Marysville, Pa., Feb. 1. Marysville may soon again have a zinc manufac turing plant. During the past week A. W. Liewin, superintendent of the Central Zinc Works, formerly located here, but tra» sferred to Clarksburg, W. I Va.. was in town. Sir. Lewis expressed a desire to es tablish the plant here, and asks the ! Marysvllle Board of Trade to co-operate I with him. A resolution was unanimous- j ly passed agreeing to lend all assist ance possible. The plant will employ | about thirty men. Marysvllle has been i selected as a probable location, because of its unexcelled shippin" facilities. I NEW FIRE APPARATUS Special to Tlir Telegraph Eliznbethtown, Feb. 1. This place has decided to be prepared in case of fire and a new chemical engine has been ordered, and It will be here this week. For years there has been no lira here of any consequence. CRIPPLE STRUCK BY AUTO Special to The Telegraph Huntingdon. Pa., Feb. i.—Crossing Washington street at Sixth here on Saturday night Fred Schneider, 23. a cripple, was knocked down and run over by an auto driven by Dr. H. C. Chisolm. The wheels passed over Schneider's ahd-smen. BOWMAN FARM SOI,I) Special to The Telegraph Halifax, Pa.. Feb. 1. Daniel W. Bowman, of Halifax township, has sold his farm, known as the old Valentine- Harper place, in the same township, to his son-in-law. Walter J. Seldors, for merly cashier of the Halifax National Bank, who will occupy it. ENDORSED EOR PRESIDENT Special to The Telegraph Halifax, Pa., Feb. 1. Washington Camp, Xo. STfi. Patriotic Order Sons of America, Halifax, has endorsed H. Stewart Potter as its candidate for president of the upper Dauphin dis trict, Xo. 3. comprising the ten camps of the upper end. The election will take place at the annual convention at Gratz on May 1. FIRE CAUSES SLIGHT DAMAGE Fire at the home of Leon Rlccl, 1M Mary street, yesterday afternoon, caused by an overheated furnace, was extinguished by firemen after doing 'about SSO damag* SIX TOWNS FAVOR TWIN COUNTY LEAGUE Committee on Rules Meets in Harrisburg This Week; Marys ville Promoters Busy DR. G. W. GAULT Marysvllle Enthusiast Who is Boosting Twin-County League. Representatives from six towns will attend a baseball meeting In Harris burg Wednesday, February 11. The meeting will be held in tho grand jury room of the Courthouse. At this meet ing a twin-county league will be for mally organized. I The new organisation will include Marysvllle. Newport, Duncannon, Mil lersburg, Halifax and Dauphin. At a recent meeting 11. E. Walters, of Marysvllle, was selected as temporary president, and L. V. Campbell, of the same town, secretary. At this meet ing the representatives were requested to name one person from each town as a member of a committee on rules and regulations. This committee will meet here Wednesday. At Marysvllle the Men's Association will back the team. Dr. G. W. Gault is president of this association and an enthusiastic baseball supporter. Plans for the. new twin-county league were started at Marysvllle by Dr. Gault and others. CRAVES OXK MOKE PEXXANT Iluglicy Jennings ltcady to Quit if He hands n Flag Special to The Telegraph Boston, Mass., Feb. 1. —Hughey Jen nings while Thespianizing in the Hub talked about everything except the baseball war. He couldn't even be in duced to say much about the Fed "trust" suit from a lawyer's standpoint, from which he is qualitied to speak. "That looks to me like business for the lawyers. The players must have a care and live up to their agreements or the baseball public will tire of the whole thing." was Ifughey's offering on the war topics of the day. "1 would like to win just one more pennant before 1 quit baseball, and I think we have a fine chance to make the fight this season." Merchants & Miners Transportation Co. FLORIDA TRIPS "BY SEA" BALTIMORE TO JACKSONVILLE and return «3S.HO SAVANNAH and return 925.M Including meals and stateroom ac commodations. Through tickets to aU points. Fine steamers. Best service. Staterooms do luxe. Baths. Wireless telegraph. Automobiles carried. Steam er Tuesday and Friday. Send tor book let. \V. r. TURNER. O. P. A.. Baltimore, M 4 SSFTSISR REPAIRING •r adjusting;, Jenrlrr cleaning mw repollahlng, take It to SPRINGE R""Kd"i!£E LK 206 MARKET ST Bell PkoH Try Telegraph Want Ads. FEBRUARY 1, 1015. INDEPENDENTS WIN OVER ICOME FIVE Local Tossers Now Ready to Play Any Team in State For Championship As a result of Saturday's victory over the Vincome team of Philadel phia, the Harrisburg Independents will make a stronger bid for honors as independent championship of Pennsyl vania. The score Saturday night was 30 to 26. The locals now make a sweeping' challenge to all teams. The work of the Harrisburg Inde pendents has attracted the attention of basket hall managers throughout the State, and there are many inquir ies as to the chances for league games. In all contests the Harrisburg Inde pendents have shown form on a par with the best. team. BASEBALIi (iA.ME OX ICE Mddic Collins Shines Over Wiltse and Other Big Leaguers Special to The Telegraph T.ake Placid, N. Y.. Feb. I.—Eddie Collins, the "White Sox captain, and other big leaguers, including Jimmy Walsh and Pcnnock, of the Athletics, and George Wiltse, of the Giants, showed members of the Lake Placid clubs a new kind of baseball when they played a game on the snow and ice on Mirror Lake. Teams were chosen from among the club members, Collins and Walsh be ing rival captains. One one team was Lieutenant-Governor Edward Schoeneck, of New Tork. An indoor baseball and bat were used. The diamond was laid out in the snow and the. base line soon be came a glare of ice. Collins starred and won the game for his team by a fast double play in the ninth. Several I hundred persons watched the game. King Oscar 5c Cigars Continue the popular nickel smoke because we continue to make them of the same good Havana and do mestic tobacco that started them in their successful career 23 years ago. Regularity of quality counts for more than "fancy names and fussy packages." Smokers can't enjoy such things. They want good tobacco. W^Map Latest Enorpeaa War Map Given by THE TELEGRAPH Ta every reader presenting this COUPON and 10 cents to oovev promotion txperuM. BT MAIL—In olty or outside. for lie. Stamps. eash or money order. This la the BIOQBBT VALUE BVER OFFERED. Latent 1»1« European Official Map (6 oolora) —Portraits of 1« European Rulara; all statistics and war data—Army .Navy and Aerial Strength. Populations, Area, Capitals, Distances between Cltlea, Historic* of Nations Involved, Previous Decisive Battles, History Hague Peace Conference, National Dfbts, Coin Valoes. EXTRA 2-eolor CHARTS of Five Involved European Capitals and Straterfo Nawal Looatlona. Folded, with haadsome torn to lit the peokea. SCHOLASTIC GAMES FAST AND FURIOUS Central High Wins at Shippens burg; Steelton Loses to Read ing by One Point Scholast.c games played Saturday in the Central Pennsylvania race were close and exciting. Steelton high lost to Heading high, score 34 to 33. Sny der was the Heading star with almost perfect goal shooting. The Central high school five won from* Shippens bnrg Normal school, score 32 to 24. This game gives the local high toss ers a stronger hold on championship chances. Steelton played the better game un til near the close of the second half, when a slight weakness in passing, gave the Heading tossers an oppor tunity to get a lead. Brandt was the Steelton star. Central high had good men in Hout/. and Ford: From the start the local live had Shippensburg moving fast. The tossing by Central was not the only strong feature. In floor work the llarrisburgers excelled. MICHIGAN DROPS CORNELL Will Not ,Compete in Dual Athletic Meet With Ithacans Special to The Telegraph Ann Arbor. Mich., Feb. J.—Michigan and Cornell Universities will not come together in a dual track meet this year. The athletic board of control of the University of Michigan has an nounced fn the 1915 track schedule that the Wolverines would compete with XotKe Dame instead of Ithaca athletes. SMITH-FLYXX FIGHT TO-XIGHT Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. I.—"Gun boat" Smith and Jim Flynn, aspirants for the heavyweight championship inre to box ten rounds here to-night .with no decision to be given.
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