CENTRAL VARSITY FIVE MUST WIN GAME FROM STEELTON TO TIE WITH READING BUSY WEEK AHEAD FOR HASSETT CLUB Girls' Division Play at Sunbury f Wednesday Night and Home Saturday All Hassett Club teams will bo busy tl-iii week. There remains three more necks for the present season with a probability that a number of added 1 an Tactions will be scheduled. This has been a successful year for the l Ilassett quintet. The Girls' division: hold the undisputed title of cham- j pions of Central Pennsylvania. On Wednesday night the girls will: go to Sunbury for a game with the! V. W. C. A. of that place. Next | Saturday night the Indiana State! Normal School co-eds will come i here for a game at Cathedral floor. j For to-morrow night the Hassett regulars are scheduled with the Var sity five of the Carlisle Indian school, j This game is one of the hardest on the ; local schedule. The game starts at' * o'clock and promises tinusual in- j terest. On Thursday night the Rose- 1 wood A. C. will play the Ilassett i varsity tossers. State League Promotors Hand Out More Publicity Heading, Pa.. March 20.—The pro- j moters and managers of the new Penn sylvania State league will hold a meet ing at the Bellevue-Stratford, Philadel- j pliia, on March 28 to effect a perrna- i nent organization and arrange other ' details for the coming season. The season is scheduled to open on May 10 »nd continue to Labor Day, whether the league pays or not. Abraham Rosenhluth, a New York I lawyer, said to represent protected j baseball interests opposed to Al. Law son's new Atlantic League, and I-eo Groom, local manager of t he United ; States League team here some yeaj-s ago. say that they have leases on three parks—lsland Park, at Harrlsburg: the Lebanon Fair grounds, and the <~"ircus Maximum here—and that ne gotiations for grounds in Lancaster and Jersey City will soon be closed. I other towns being considered are! Trenton, on account of Sunday base- 1 ball: Hazleton, Chester, Pottsville and, possibly Williamsport. Managers in prospect are George j Croekill. Harrisburg; Mike Donlin. j Arthur Devlin or "Doc" Scanlan. Lancaster, and Lew Ritter, | Heading. Groom says organized league capital is back of the new circuit. He in a! borther of Bob Groom and once | pitched for the Pittsburgh and Boston Nationals. i Listen! Something New! Thursday Night 7.30 to 9.30 at Kaufman's Underselling Store Fine Music and Living Model Fashion Display Come, You'll Enjoy It To-morrow's Papers Will Give You More Details , A Coal Strike Or a Suspension is feared by people well informed concerning coal min ing conditions. The contract made in 1912 between the operators and the miners will expire on March 31, 1916. The miners have made a number of new demands as a condition for their resuming work after April 1, 1916. These demands are considered exorbitant by the mine owners. The result will be a strike or a suspen sion until a compromise is reached. Notwithstanding the miners have agreed to work pending a settlement history shows that such a deter mination has never been carried out. In other years the men made the same decision, but the records show that no coal was mined. Examine your coal bins, if you do not have suf ficient to last until warm weather we advise you to place your order at once. United Ice & Coal Co. Fornter & Cowilrn « S. \ I / / Hummel A Mulberry Also Steclton, Pa. || Workmen's Compensation | Act Blanks We are prepared to ship promptly any or all of the blanks !! ; I made necessary by the Workmen's Compensation Act which took !! ![ effect January 1. Let us hear from you promptly as the law re- ]! j! quires that you should now have these blanks in your possession. |j The Telegraph Printing Co. j|j !! Printing—Binding—Designing—Photo LJngraTlng j; HAKRISIIURU, PA. ! HWWWWMHWW t WWWMWVVVWW xvt%% . i MONDAY EVENING, HARRJSBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 20, 1916. CENTRAL NEEDS NEXT GAME; VICTORY WILL TIE UP RACE > Play Steelton Friday Night on Local Floor; Tech Tossers May Land in Cellar Defeating Tech Friday night by a score of 46 to 2D, Central not only won the city basketball champion ship. but came within an ace of tying . i up the Central-Penn League series. The Steelton team is the only obstacle in Central's way. •| Another Important feature of the ; week's work was Thomas' undisputed | occupancy of first place as the league's I high scorer. This star, who is a Junior at Central, has scored 226 points in 11 contests for an average ] lof 20.55 joints per game. This dis j places Greenawalt, the former York j pivot man, who has averaged 20.50 i | points for eight games. With another contest yet to be : played Central has outstripped all its, j competitors in both field goal and foul goal scoring. Coach McCord's ma chine has amassed 127 field goals and 1 157 fouls, which is a better record j than any other team has made in the league. The Blue and Gray lads in I the Central Penn contests have scored a total of 411 points, while their op i ponents have made but 330. In de- 1 tensive work Reading will likely re tain its lead as the best in the league. Better Chance For Thomas Thomas, of Central, has a chance . I to add to his laurels, in the game with Steelton. If he tallies three field goals > i he will tie Wendler. of Reading, with 1 |4O each in 12 games. Over three goals will give him a lead in both field and foul goals, as well as high j CEREAL CROP IS HELD BY WEATHER Conditions Not as Good as 1 Formerly According to the Stale Statisticians j Pennsylvania's wheat and rye show indications of beins only about nlnety ■ Tour per cent of the average condition at this time of the year according to ! reports made to the statistical bureau of the State Department of Agrieul-; ! ture. The acreage devoted to wheat is about one per cent, greater than last year and rye is about the same, j ! Weather is blamed for the backward 'condition. Seldom in the last decade has the wheat crop been less advanced j than at present. Estimates made to the department | are that twenty-five per cent, of the | wheat crop of 1913 or 6,232,000 1 bushels, remains in the hands of the j ! farmers. Reports show an increase In pure bred livestock in the State. There are about 1,500 stallions, the same as last year: 8.890 bulls, an Increase of' ti4o; boars 7,400, increase of 900 and I rams 3,490, an increase of 290. The number of steers being fattened on I farms for market at this season shows a decline as compared with last year, j | More lime is being used on fields j i in this State now than for years, this 1 fact being due to the lack of the foreign potash supply. Seventy-eight ' per cent, of the farmers are using : commercial fertilizer, a decline of ten per cent., the use last year being 235 , pounds per acreage. The total ferti-j lizer used was 338.520 worth $7,318,-1 800 against 381.920 tons worth $7,- 943.900, in the previous year. BETHLEHEM STEEL TO LET U. S. FIX PRICE [Continued From First Pase.] president of the corporation, in their report said in part: I "At the beginning of the year 1915: the steel business of the United States I > point scorer of the league. Captain Rote, of Central, is lead ing field goal scorer among the guards. In eight games he has netted ■the ball 22 times from the field. | While Central is fighting Friday J night for the lead. Tech will line up : on the same night against Lancaster, and a defeat will place the loser in the cellar position. Tech won from the Roses in this city January 7, by a 51 to 21 score. Prior to this time Tech lost at York I December 10 and won from Lebanon 'at Tech December 17. Following the Lebanon and Lancaster victories Tech j tcok second position with two victories and one defeat. Since then not one league game has been won, and Tech , has gone down until it can drop no farther. A victory for the Maroon at Lancaster Friday night will assure the local team of sixth place. How Teams Stand From a poor last Steelton has climbed consistently, and by winning five straight games is now tied for i fourth position. Coach Gaffney's 1 squad will likely finish with a record of six won and lost. Standing of the Teams W. 1.. Pet. 'Reading 9 3 .750 ; Central * 3 .727 i York ti 5 .555 Lebanon li 6 .500 ] Steelton 5 5 .500 Tecli 2 8 .222 1 Lancaster 2 8 .200 I was much depressed, due, to some ex- I tent, to the Kuropean war. This con dition was rapidly changed, however.■ by the very large orders for steel pro- I ducts placed in this country by the various European governments and by an incerased demand for domestic I I consumption. This combined foreign and domestic demand has created an unusual condition in the steel indus try, and to-day there exists an actual shortage of steel-making capacity in; it his country. These conditions, eou- I pled with the difficulty of obtaining l certain ray materials and an increase! in the price of labor, have resulted in' a rapid increase in the price of steel products. All Departments Busy "With the recent extraordinary I market for all classes of steel products j and for ships the various piants of your corporation enter the year 191' ii | with all departments, with one exeep- ! tlon, running at full capacity. "That exception is the armor-plate j department. Bethlehem Steel Com ; pany has practically completed deliv eries to the Government on all pend ing armor contracts. Contracts l'or the current year have not been awarded. "Your attention is called to the fact 5 that a bill is pending in Congress and : has, with the support of the See-j retary of the Navy, been recommend- i cd for passage by the Senate commit-) tee on naval affairs, providing tor the building by the government at an ex pense of $11,000,000 of an armor plant] i with a capacity of 20,000 tons a year, j j "This capacity provides for more i than double what have been the aver age actual requirements of the United I States for armor over the past twenty j j years, and if such a bill is passed vne lvalue of existing armor plants in fliis country will be virtually destroyed, j . Bethlehem Steel Company has more i •than $7,000,000 now invested In its! plants, devoted to this use—and use i less for any other purpose. Willing to Meet Government j "Recognizing that though the in terests of your property should be j carefully conserved by your officers, on a matter of this kind, your corpor ation also has an important obligation to the nation of which it is a citizen. ! ■your officers have appeared before the I i Senate committee on naval affairs and ; urged the defeat of the pending meas ure. As it is frankly declared that the j j sole purpose of the proposed enter- ! prise is that the government may se i cure its armor at a lower price, your. officers have submitted the following propostion to the federal government: "We will agree to permit any weii- j known firm of chartered public ac countants to inventory our plant and , make careful estimates of the cost of ! manufacture; with that data in hand 1 we will meet with the Secretary of the Navy and agree to manufacture ar- i i nior at a price which will be entirely I satisfactory to the Secretary of the! 1 Navy as being quite as low as the price ! jat which the government could possi-i j bly manufacture armor on its own ac-1 i count, after taking into account all I proper charges. As a concrete work ing basis for such negotiations, Beth-i lehem Steel Company has offered to j manufacture one-third of the armor j ; plate required for the contemplated five-year naval program (estimated at approxii ately 120,000 tons), for a i price of $395 per ton for side armor, las compared with the price of $425 i ' per ton now obtaining. Cheaper Than in Kuro|>o "It may be added that while all , other steel prices have greatly in- j creased, the foregoing figure at which we now offer to make armor for the United States is not only a lower price than has been paid by the government I for more than ten years, but it is> also a substantially lower price than: is paid for armor by Japan, Austria, ; Germany, France or England. "Bethlehem Steel Company entered ! jupon the manufacture of armor plate at the request of the United States i government. It has during all these' years co-operated with the govern-! | ment to the end that the United States should have the benefit of the highest development of the art. "Although aside from the financial interests of your corporation, we, as 1 citizens, and in the light of our ex- j perience, should regard it as extremely unfortunate if the United States j should enter upon a policy which should prevent their being placed con- | tinuously at its disposal in this im-1 portant detail of national defense, the j experience, the enterprise and the ini- j tiatlve of the steel manufacturing in- > J dustry of the country. "Assuming that manufacturers are : i willing to accept as low a price as the i : government may properly exact, we earnestly hope that Congress will not feel it necessary to embark upon the I proposed policy. Buys Pennsylvania Steel "Since the close of the fiscal year covered by this report, but prior to (this writing, agreements have been executed under which it is proposed that Bethlehem Steel Company, or a I subsidiary company shall acquire all the assets of the Pennslyvanla Steel Company (of Pennsylvania) and Maryland Steel Company and all the , other assets of Pennsylvania Steel 'Company (of New Jersey) for s3l.- j 941,630. subject to existing liens ex- ; | oept the $8,500,000, face value, of: i bonds of Pennsylvania Steel Company 1 ! (of New Jersey), which are to be re-! i tired out of the proceeds of this sale. ( The liens, subject to which the proper ! ties are to be purchased, aggregate approximately $17,300,000. This pur chase brings to your corporation plants already In operation that will I take the place of those which for i some time your officer!! and directors i have been planning to construct." 1 NEW LEAGUE IDEA | ONE HUGE JOKE Al Lawson Says Groom Is After Free Advertising; Atlantic Prospects I Al. W. Lawson, promoter of the I Atlantic Yeague, says the Pennsylva j nla State League is a fake. While in I ! Reading he handed out the following: "I called up Leo Groom at Lancas i ter to-day and he assured me that | Lancaster intended remaining in the j ! 1 Atlantic League. He said I should not !, pay any attention to the Pennsylvania i League talk, as he was only doing it ! as an advertising stunt to get fans 'talking about the Atlantic League. I] told him that I didn't like his methods of getting advertising. I "There is no room for a Pennsyl vania League, as we have the best towns in this territory, and there is nothing left for the other fellows. They mention York, Williamsport, Jer | sey City and Trenton. I had the op- I portunity of getting these towns for our league, but they have no grounds, i They also mention Harrisburg. lam positive that Harrisburg would never 1 think of joining a league like the Pennsylvania circuit. Holds Kej at Reading | "As to Heading," continued Mr. Lawson, "we hold the key TO the sit i uation here. Our grounds are located lin the hear of the town. I've bud j a club in the northeastern section | and know that the only place for i ! a team to pay in Reading is at Lauer's. Baseball has never paid in the north ! end of the town because it too far out. The idea of putting a club here i to buck my Atlantic League team is ridiculous. When I came to Reading ! j several months ago I looked over the i situation very carefully and spoke to about .">OO fans on the ground question. They all agreed that Lauer's Park was j the place, and I made up my mind j that if I couldn't get this ground I j would Vass up Reading. The New j York State League sent three repre- j ! sentatives to Reading and they dropped : I Reading because they could not get {the Third and Elm grounds." Few Unsold Tickets For Big Championship Battle Special to the Telegraph New York, March 20. lt is esti-j mated that some 15,000 persons will' pay between $125,000 and $175,000 to see Jess Willard, heavyweight boxing i champion of the world, step ten rounds (or less) with Frank Moran , at Madison Square Garden next Sat | urday night. In the group will bo found dozens of men—and, doubtless. : some women who are wont to ex patiate at length upon the extortions of theater ticket speculators, taxicab' drivers, cabaret owners, butchers, j bakers and candlestick makers in Greater New York, yet who fairly | scrambled over each other's footwear' j In frenzied attempts to purchase ring- | ■side seats for a boxing contest at sls, S2O and $25 each. ' SPRING WARNING FROM DR. DIXON Says That Fresh Air and Exer cise Are the Best Tonics For Everyone Now i Warning against too much atten , tion being paid to Spring tonics when the geese start to fly northward and the bulb plants begin to show above ground is sounded by Dr. Samuel G. : Dixon, State commissioner of health, in a week-end health talk issued to j day. The commissioner holds that 1 fresh air, exercise and attention to J diet are better Spring tonics than I those which come out of bottles. I The commissioner says that home j remedy manufacturers also get busy |in the Spring and that a wave of Spring tonic excitement gets started in the land. The commissioner says: j The tonic which the vast majority 1 of individuals need at this period of ! the year is fresh air, exercise and a ■ simpler diet. Owing to weather con ditions many of our activities are restricted in the winter time. There Jis also a tendency to eat excessively of meat and fatty foods. As a result ! when the Spring arrives with Its warm days many of us are like a fur nace that has been so choked with 1 fuel that it doesn't draw well. You cannot buy relief from these i conditions at a dollar a bottle. Medi cine will not make up for over eating and under exercise. The high death rate which almost invariably prevails at this season of the year from pneu , monia. tuberculosis and other respira ! Tory diseases is largely due to the re | duced physical resistance of lndivi , duals, which makes them particularly | sensitive when the sudden changes of i temperature ocur which are common at this time of the year. Old people are susceptible as they are hotted j more closely during the winter time i than young folks. I Let your Spring tonic prescription read something as follows: 1. Eat meat but once a day and i sparingly. 2. Those not under the doctor's J care should take a glass of water be ; fore retiring for the night and one | an hour before breakfast. I 3. Get all the fresh air possible. 4 Sleep with your windows open. 5. See that your clothing is heavy ; enough to protect you against sud den changes of weather. ! 6. Walk in the open air five or six miles a day. . j ESTATE BEQUEATHED TO XVUSE Special to the Telegraph Sunbury. Pa„ March 20. Jacob Shull. of Dalmatia, in his will, pro bated here, left his SI,OOO estate to Mrs. Lydia A. Heckert. It was in gratitude for her taking care of him during a long illness. Me had no close relatives. OYSTER SUPPER FOR CLASS Special to the Telegraph Lykens, Pa.. March 20.—An oyster supper was given at Edgemont Man | sion, the home of Charles Page, Fri day evening for the benefit of the ; young men's Bible class of the Trans j figuration Baptist Sunday School, j There were about 150 people present. ANNOUNCE BIRTH OP SON Special to the Telegraph ! Dauphin, Pa., March 20.—Mr. and II ,\lrs. Elmer Feaser announce the birth 'of a son. on Saturday, March 18, 1910. HEAVYWEIGHTS TO j TRAIN ALL WEEK Willard Reduces Weight; Mo ran Has Busy Sunday; Heads Books Special to the Telegraph New York, March 20.—Jess Wil- | lard, perfectly satisfied with his condi tion. said he was physically fit to! enter (lie ring at any moment to de-j fend his title of world's heavyweight j champion. He did not take any [ gymnastic or other exercise yester-l day except what Tom Jones, his man- ' ager, called "an energetic walk" of 1 three and a half miles. The big Kan- ' san then rested quietly at his uptown quarters near Central Park. For the last three or four days Wll jlaid has been speeding up gradually 1 in his boxing bouts with his partners and for the next five days he intends to take on each of his sparring aids for at least three rounds, lie lias 1 taken off much useless weight by his ! active gymnasium work, and yester-1 day tipped the scales at 251 pounds, i He expects to enter the ring weigh ing about 248 pounds. Moran Keeps Busy Moran put in one of the busiest; sessions of his training at his camp, j Newsboys from the neighborhood of! | Times Square, who are great friends! thirty to forty per day and the head- [ i quarters of the fund will be located j on the first, floor of the Masonic j : Temple, Harrisburg, with branch • offices in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,; Scranton and Altoona. 1 "The experience of the State Fund ! has been extremely favorable with a 1 • very low loss ratio in comparison, with premium income and forecasts substantial dividends at the end of the year," says Mr. Allen. "The large number of policies issued for small premiums by the State Fund com- i prises a class of very desirable risks i from which few claims originate as ■ | compared to the aggregate income. j ' "The inspection force, working un- 1 der the schedule rating plan, which has been adopted by the Common wealth, is in the field, visiting em | ployers for preliminary inspections preparatory to the Inspections for the i official rating by the Pennsylvania Bureau. The inspectors will give safety engineering service and advice to employers which will enable them • t.o perfect their plants and improve j conditions to a degree which will per- ' mit the greatest possible reduction oft premium." CLASS GIVES ENTERTAINMENT Special to the Telegraph i Dillsburg, Pa., March 20. The pupils of the A intermediate school i 1 gave an entertainment under the direc- 1 t.ion of their teacher. Miss Ethel ' , Rauck. Those who participated in the j . program was Margaret Elecker, Bliss-< , a belli Cook. Esther Kline, Alda Ltrew, I Orelia Murry, Beulah Blackford, Mil- j dred Cromlieh, Mary Crabill, Mabel! Fishel, Margery Eveler, Blanche Cas- ■ sel. Pearl Trimmer, Kathryn Urlch, . Ellen Ditmer. Laura Speelman, Lyman ; Nester, Earl Cromlieh, Ray Ruhl, Les- ! • ter Dagnell, Welford Cook, John Gross, Luther Grove, William Sheffer, Harvey Lerew, Luther Blatisser, Wilmer i ; McClure, Vance Seibert, Trvin Cassel, Ray Hess, Earl Chronister, Robert Karns, Clare Deardorff and George • Corl. I"""] I ; I life tf ll I j I WESTPORT 2 '/i IN. THECORNECT CUT A WAY tHAPI, , %/wn (aUars , AMERICA [WELLY'S y&GORNER The Hassett Club will have a bigi attraction to-morrow night, in the varsity five from the Carlisle Indian I school. This game promises much j interest because of the contest early i in the season between the Harrisburg Independents and the Indians. The Ilassett quintet has a number of good games on the schedule before the sea- ' son closes. ' At New York Saturday night John W. Overton of Yale won the 1,000 yard event, defeating Caldwell of the : Boston A. A., and llomer Baker of j New York. The time was two minutes; jls 2-5 seconds, the present world's! I mark. With the adoption of new rules, and i an agreement to give the California I tennis stars a chance to get out of business the Tennis Committee ad-, journed Saturday. In the future ex-[ penses will be paid only after ap proval by the executive committee i | ot' the National Association. After I | January 1, players must not engage! j ilt sporting goods business. 1 Harry Hensel, sporting writer on the Lancaster Intelligencer has an-1 nounoed his retirement from news-! i paper work. Failing health and bad j eyesight makes this decision compul- j 1 1 sory. He has been in the game for i "many years and is known all over the > j United States. For 25 years he con | ducted boxing shows and attended j nearly every big championship tight i for 25 years, lie has ncen on the i • Intelligencer since 1877 and has an i' army of friends in Harrisburg. V? FTEE N Jfllf* •"•'. i*'/CENTS.!;#/ >£■«//JM:; : VvV • < f Vv#/|/7 »4 V /\\rVif-t'• ICT • •••#»#•»•» • •#/*/ ~* M )MX JjllMWm •• : •!*; I* * • ••#•••#• *ll HI V, \ \ ///jaw, , • • « %• • 'f-y * Sv>V. : £ : Whv havp ;>:•.•••• VV n y nave i •••:».v m « i a ••••tJ •:••::*• v.* jg; Murads 1 lg|g§ :;;•' become the leading ciga- 9 y*: rette in the business and If 'v; social world? | _ , , n •• v •«•»»•/*w* Because smokers have ■ ?»V?.V»2f"v« found that the Turkish to- I V.*v V # * !v baccos used in Murad are I »tt .*• !".• better than they can get in H k V; most 25 Cent cigarettes. H »*V .. ~ I J'.sV'hJ',*' V Murad has not won its iS jv World Leadership I in a day or by accident. 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PRINTING—BINDING—DESIGNING PHOTO-ENGRAVING HARRISBURG, PENNA. .V The bis: battle between Jess Wil ton! and Frnnk Moran takes place or Saturday. Both lighters will train hard up to the last minute accord ing to reports. The seats are selling rapidly and will be at a premium be fore tlie clone of the weeu. A 1 Sluirpe and Kay ton Schoch, of Cornell favor an age limit for athletes. They told a number of friends at a dinner Saturday night that the ago should be tixed at 22 and a half years. It is understood this question will come up in the near future at a meet ing of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The Susquehanna University girls lost to the llassett girls. Saturday night, on Cathedral Hall lloor, score 15 to 4. The work of the local srlrls I was a brilliant exhibition. Every 'member on the local team was a fac tor in the victory. Miss Burns, Miss Sweeney. Miss ('ashman and .Miss Mc- Carthy were point scorers. An added ! game was played between the Merion live and the Midget girls, the former winning, score 8 to 3. The llarrisburg Independents won j Saturday night from the Garnet five of Philadelphia, score 35 to 34. The i local tossers roughed it up during the i second half and had a scoring spurt, within live minutes of the time for the game to flnish. Andy Kerr and the whole bunch of Quakers put up a clean light. McCord, Ford and Rote, scored for the local quintet and Haire, Parker, Kerr and Dlener excelled for Garnet. 11