6 Bringing Up Father (s ($ (0) d(J) ($) ($ By HELLO-yoo'} ITTLE V M Cyjrr TOOR KfcenvT H3 [ BROWN- r H M f BOT "YOU KNOW I APPLE DOMPLIN--DJO ffl A &UM O^MCE?• M V/ELL SHE ISA fM O WT N EVER BET ON THE >OU <IT HOME FROM M H<ttO VKTZ. THE W/ffj, BEAUTY- W), & * L P N< < - THE I [ C * iRL Y °°"* I *TI V S~ SEASON LOOKS GOOD TO LEAGUE LEADERS! Central Officials and Managers Predict Bright Future; Strong Teams Unfavorable weather conditions threatened to put a crimp in to-day's opening in Central Pennsylvania Lea- j gue. In the event of a postponement.! arrangements will be made to have twilight games played next week. The | programs arranged for to-day may be j carried over until a later date. The line-up of the teams this year) include some former Tri-State stars. I Kid Strieker was scheduled to pitch! for New Cumberland this afternoon, j Officials and managers of the teams' are of the opinion that the league will: furnish great sport this season. They expressed themselves as follows after j the recent meeting at Hershev. President Frank Stees, Steelton: | "The outlook for the coming season; is encouraging. We are not afraid of the Harrisburg Independent Club in-' juring our patronage. I predict a great! year for the Central Pennsylvania I League." S. X- Hull, New Cumberland: "With j Kid Washinger and Miller l tvs have the strongest corps of pitch-j ers in the history of baseball here and i with the people of the town back of | us wp great things. The com ing season looks better to me than! last year." Paul A. H. Wharton, Middletown: "The champions of the league last > season are going to repeat. Every j person in the town is interested and 1 the league looks better than ever to mc. Boys, watch the champs!" Eliner Waltertnyer. Highspire: "The boys are working in harmony this season and with Cramer and Wilson hack in the box we are going to"be runners-up in the race. The town is interested in the welfare of the or-' ganization and are willing to help." William G. Maurer, Lebanon: "'AI-I though it is our first year in the league we are confident that the club! will make an excellent showing. John Haddow, a former St. Louis American League player, will captain the team. ; The people have promised to help and 1 we look for big crowds." R. L. Marquart. Hershey: "We are delighted with the prospect. Hershey | has long wanted to be in a league of this character and standing. We look forward to a summer of good ball and we arc going to do our best to land ' well up In the first division." Double Classics Show Many Star Bowlers Doubles in the Casino bowling tour-i nament last night showed close com- j petition In this series. The star pair, j Jaeoby and Heisey bowled a score of 1140. The scores follow: Gulbransen and Luck, 1068; Bentz l and George. 1046, Isenhart and Ford.; 1048; W. Miller and Earley, 1088; | Haines an.l Kobb, 1036: Achenbach and A. Miller, 1034; Green and Wilson.! 922; Ross and Snyder, 1032; Cunning- ; ham and Martin, SOS. M9^A 10c CIGARS There's no "lost motion" to a MOJA smoke. Their rich aroma gives more satisfaction than the same money's worth of nickel cigars. 3 Sizes But All Alike in Quality Made by John C. Herman & Co. wtvwvtvmwiiivuii****-** - * Buy Coal Now—Cheapest This is the month to order next winter's supply of coal. There's a material sa%'ing to be effected, and the wise folk are taking advantage of present low prices. Buy before the advance comes, and buy Mont gomery coal thus insuring the most quality for your money. J. B MONTGOMERY Both Phones Third and Chestnut Streets SATURDAY EVENING, HXRRISBURG TELEGRAPH MA\ r 1, 1915. FIREMEN'S LEAGUE I TO IVIEET NEXT WEEK Eight Companies Have Teams l\\ the Field; Silver Cup and Medals For Winners With eight of the local fire com panies in the baseball game. plans will start next week for the organiza tion of a league. It is the intention to | arrange a regular schedule and to pre isent a silver cup to the winner. An other plan is to give every member of the winning team a medal. I The schedule will probably call for a three game series between the com panies. Another plan suggested is for | an elimination schedule, teams to drop out after losing a certain number of !games. The meeting for the organi ! zation of the league will be held in the : Friendship firehouse. • Teams now in the field are the ! Friendship, Hope, Citizen. Washinc ! ton, Paxton, Good Will, Susquehanna | and Shamrock. The Hope team • started practice yesterday with a large ' squad of candidates. A strong line-up lis assured. The Hope pitching staff is i considered strong. Here is the team: | Charles Price, left field; Charles Blessing, right field and manager; i Fred Good/ear, second base: Frank j Kindler. short stop: Albert Meh&ffle, 'second base and captain: William I Windsor, 111, f.rst base: L. MeCord. C. Schrum. catchers: Chester Gilden, j Sowers, Olscn and Male}*, pitchers. Sport News at a Glance ! Two flights are planned by the Capi tal City American Racing Pigeon Fnion. one on May 8 from Manassas. Va., and the other to Charleston, S. C. A. E. Adams defeated Eddie Gordon in the final pool match; score, 100 | to 65. Frank Baker was unable to play to ; day because of a dislocated rib. The Harrisburg Giants opened the I season to-dny at Myerstown. The first cut in the Harrisburg squad : was made yesterday. Manager Mes sersmith will keep fifteen men at work. Pitcher Schorr was yesterday re | leased by the Chicago Nationals. The Federals defeated the Smith Shop team in the Lucknow League ! scries yesterday; score, 2 to 1. The Haskin A. C. defeated the Good , Will team yesterday: score, 1 to 0. Harrisburg Academy played Get j tysburg Academy at Gettysburg to : Jay. ATHLETE WAR VICTIM Special to The Telegraph Hamilton. Out., Slay I.—The name !of James Duffy, a prominent long distance runner, whose home was in this city, appears in to-day's list of j those killed in the Canadian contin j Rent at the front. Duffy figured promi -1 nentlv in many Canadian races and | gained fame in the United States by 1 winnig the American marathon at Bos | ton last year. The year before he won I the Mercury Athletic Club marathon at Yonkers. X. Y. At the outbreak of 1 the war he enlisted with the High , landers in the Sixteenth Battalion. He j was unmarried. "SECOND TY COBB" CAUSE OF NEW FIGHT OF FEDERAL LEAGUE AND ORGANIZED BASEBALL Benny Kauff, crack outfielder of the Brooklyn Federal League Club, called often the "Second Ty Cobb," lias been the cause of another stir in the baseball world, and his action in joining the New York Giants may lead to another legal fight between the new league and organized baseball. Kauff. who is one of the greatest ball players in the country, suddenly ap peared at the Polo Grounds, New York. Thursday, April 29, and was signed by John J. McGraw, manager of the Giants. He was sent out into the field for the game with the Boston Braves in place of Jim Thorpe, the Indian, who it was learned at the time had Just been sold to the Jersey City Club of the International League. George Stallings, manager of the Boston club, protested, and then called his men off the field. "Kar.ff," said he, "is the property of the Brooklyn Federal League club, and he has no right to play in the National League." MAIL ENTRY BLANKS FOR STATE HIGH MEET Harrisburg Track Athletic Com mittee Announces List of Special Prizes Entry blanks for the eighth annual state high school track meet were mailed to-day to every high school in Pennsylvania. The big event takes place Saturday, May 22, on Municipal Field, Island Park. Entries must be in not later than 10 o'clock Monday, May 17. The Harrisburg Track Athletic Com mittee anticipates a record meet this year because of the adoption of uni form rules by the Interseholastic As sociation of Pennsylvania, which hopes to be in control of all athletics in the near future. A letter calling attention to the suc cess of previous meets accompanied the entry blanks. The prizes offered by the committee Include a shield of new design, mounted in silver, upon which the name of the school scoring the greatest number of points in the meet will be inscribed. This shield will be contested for an nually for five years and becomes the permanent property of the school win ning it the greatest number of times. The old shield was awarded to the Reading high school and will be turned over to Reading at the coming meet by Tech high, winner of last season's meet. In addition to the shield a large silver loving cup will be awarded the team winning the meet, to be held ner manently; a bronze cup to the team having the second highest number of points, and a beautiful sTlver cup to the individual scoring the highest num. ber of points. Gold, silver and bronze medals also go to winners in each event. The umpire ordered the Boston men to play, and on their refusal forfeited the game to the Giants. Later what McGraw called an exhibi tion game was played without Kauff in the line-up. Robert B. Ward, chief financial backer of the Federal League and owner of the Brooklyn club, was at a white heat when he learned the Giants had signed Kauff". He de clared war in these words: 'Kauff has a contract with the Brookfeds that is absolutely binding for the next three years. If the Giants believe otherwise we will fight them to the last ditch. If the Giants or any other club In organized base ball want war they will get it. If the Kauff matter can be construed as a call to arms organized baseball will regret that they ever sounded the call. We will get out and take players who have ironclad contracts with clubs in the National and American Leagues i and will tight to the limit to retain them." Motorcycle Rider Dashes Into Moving Freight Train! Special to The Telegraph Mechanicsburg, Pa., May I.—An ac cident which nearly cost the life of Ira C. Bair, South York street, cocurred yesterday morning, when Bair, a car penter, was riding on his motorcycle to Harrisburg, where he is employed, and collided with a freight train at the crossing below town. Watching the workingmen's train, which leaves here at 5.49 o'clock, he waited until It was past, when he rode straight ahead Into a freight train apnroachinfc on the northbound track, which he failed to see. and was struck by the engine and hurled hackward. He landed along the track .lust beyond reach of the en gine. Witnesses expected him to be killed, but when he was taken to Dr. G. F. Ritchey examination showed a fracture of one of the bones in his right foot, bruises and minor injuries. The motorcycle was badly damaged, but not beyond repair. STRAW RIDE TO CITY' Special to The Telegraph Dauphin, Pa., May I.—A straw ride was enjoyed by the members of the high school to Harrisburg Tuesday evening. The party rode in a wagon owned and driven by rharle K. Eertig. Light refreshments were served en route to Miss Edna Maeder, Miss Goldie Maeder, Miss Christina Long, Miss Mary Garman, Miss Anna Hager, .Miss Esther Shaffer, Miss Violet Wynn, Professor Miles C. Hummer, Max Long, John Robh and Joseph Kennedy. ARBITRATORS APPOINTED By Associated Press Washington. May 1. Secretary AVllson to-day appointed Clifton Reeves of Trenton, X. J., and Patrick Gilday, of Morrisdale, Pa., commis sioners of conciliation for a Xtw Haven railroad labor dispute at New Haven. John A. Moffltt, of Orange, N. J., was appointed a commissioner of comiliatlon to handle a strike of coal miners at Huleton. Pa. UPPER END LEAGUE IS NOW CERTAINTY Elect Officers and Arrange For Schedule; Season Opens Sat urday, May 22 Elizabethvllle, May I.—The Dau phin-Schuylkill league was organized Inst night. Representatives were pres ent from Lykens, Williamstown, Eliza hethvill and Tower City. The season will open May 22 and close Labor Day. The schedule committee will meet on Monday night and arrange for a pennant and trophies. . Rules were adopted last, night. The officers are: President, Benjamin Williams, of Wil liainstown; secretary and treasurer. C. C. McGlaughlin. Klizabethville. Two games will be played on holidays, the teams switching the morning and aft ernoon games when possible. Baseball Summary; Games Past and Future SCORES OF YESTERDAY National league Brooklyn, 2: Philadelphia, 1. Chicago, 4: Pittsburgh. 1. St. Louis, 6; Cincinnati. 2. New York-Boston, postponed. Rain. American league Washington, 6: Philadelphia, 1. Chicago, 4; Detroit, 1. Boston-New York, postponed. Rain. Cleveland-St. Louis postponed. Cold weather. Federal I x-ague Kansas City, 2; Baltimore, 0. Other games postponed. Rain. WHERE THEY PLAY TO-DAY National Ix ague New York at Philadelphia. Boston at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at St. Louis. Chicago at Pittsburgh. American league Philadelphia at New York. Washington at Boston. St. Louis at Cleveland. Detroit at Chicago. Federal league Kansas City at Baltimore. Pittsburgh at Brooklyn. St. Louis at Newark. Chicago at Buffalo. WHERE THEY PLAY SUNDAY National league Pittsburgh at Chicago. Cincinnati at St. Louis. Other teams not scheduled. American I/cague St. Louis at Cleveland. Detroit at Chicago. Other teams not scheduled. / Federal l<eaguc St. Louis at Newark. Buffalo at Chicago. Other teams not scheduled. WHERE THEY PLAY MONDAY National I /cague New York at Philadelphia. Boston at Brooklyn. Pittsburgh at Chicago. Other, teams not scheduled. American league Philadelphia at New York. Washington at Boston. Other teams not scheduled. Federal league Chicago at Buffalo. Kansas City at Baltimore. Pittsburgh at Brooklyn. Other teams not scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLt'BS National league W. L. Pet. Philadelphia 11 3 .786 Cincinnati 9 6 .600 Chicago 8 6 .571 Boston 7 6 .638 St. Louis 8 9 .471 Brooklyn 6 9 .400 Pittsburgh 5 9 .357 New York ' 3 9 .250 American Leagnc W. L. Pet. Detroit 12 5 .706 New York 8 4 .667 Chicago 10 7 .558 Washington 8 6 .571 Boston 5 6 .455 Cleveland 7 9 .438 Philadelphia 4 9 .308 St. Louis 4 12 .250 Federal league W. L. Pet. Newark 10 5 .625 Chicago 8 5 .615 Brooklyn 9 6 .600 Pittsburgh 9 7 .563 Kansas City 8 8 .600 Buffalo fi 9 .400 St. Louis 5 9 .357 I Baltimore 11 .353 ! FREIGHT MEN START SEASON The clerks and tallymen employed at the Division street transfer station of the Pennsylvania Railroad opened the baseball season yesterday. The clerks lost out. score 11 to 5. The game was fast and exciting and went seven innings. Major William Price, of Heckton. assistant foreman at the freight station, made a brief address and tossed out the first ball. YESTERDAYS COLLEGE SCORES Cornell 4, Dartmouth 2. Wisconsin 4, Indiana 2. Albright 5. Gettysburg 4. Princeton F. 5, Cornell F. 0. Virginia 5, Brown 4. T/Ohlgh 12. Muhlenberg 2. Yillanova 9, Mt. St. Mary's 7. Vermont 0, Colgate 0. (13 innings, darkness.). ; HARRY BEEII DRIVES BRITISH WAR CAR Barney Oldfield's Famous Me chanic Under Shell Fire in European Conflict By Associated Press General Headquarters, British Army, France, May I.—Barney Oldfield's old mechanic, Harry Breen, who has swept around the track with him on the Indianapolis speedway and elsewhere in the United States, is now driving a car for a British staff officer at the front. He says the excitement of be ing under shell fire has the automobile racing game beaten. Breen hails from Pittsburgh, where he was born forty-one years ago of a Danish mother and British father. The British father was the lever that got Breen into the British army, leaving a prosperous garage business in Pitts burgh, he hurried to England and en listed. His qualities as expert mechanic and skilful, fearless driver insured instant service at general headquarters, where such are at a premium. The superb country roads of France, which are kept In a remarkable state of fit ness notwithstanding the war, gives Breen an opportunity for imagining he Is still with Oldfleld on the track try ing to break a record. KING OSCAR 5c CIGARS "W a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make -srirKgSb a better mousetrap than his neighbor .... the world will make abeaten For 24 years the regn al lar quality ofKing Oscar 5c Cigars has monopolized the pat ronage of particular smokers. 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