6 GEORGE COCKILL'S CREW LOSES CLOSE GAME TO ELMIRA—HOME AGAIN TUESDAY JOE JACKSON IS LEADING HITTER Pitcher Cullop Has Not Lost Game; Robertson Displaces Daubert in National By Associated Press Chicago, July 8. Joe Jackson has taken the lead among the batters of the American League. Tris Speaker Is out of first place. Jackson's aver ago is .SSI to Speaker's .3 80. Jack son also has taken the lead in total bases from Speaker, with 140, but Tris maintains the pace in runs scored with 66. Cobb leads in stolen bases with 30 and Eddie Collins has tied Vltt, Detroit, for the lead in sacrifice hits ■with nineteen. "Home Run" Baker Is in front In his specialty with seven. Detroit leads the clubs in batting with T55. The leading batters are: Jaskson, Chicago, .381; Speaker, Cleveland, .380; Cobb, Detroit, .347; Hellman. Detroit, .303; Sisler, St Louis, .301. Leading pitchers are: Winning Pitchers Earned W. L. runs Culop, New Tork 7 0 1.26 Morton, Cleveland ... 10 2 1.92 Mays, Boston 7 2 2.16 Russell, Chicago s 3 1.19 C. Williams, Chicago .. 5 2 2.12 Fabre, Chicago 7 3 2.18 S. Coveleskie. Cleve. .11 5 .2.46 M. Coveleskie, Detroit. 10 5 2.97 Ruth, Boston 11 6 2.46 Johnston, Washington. 13 8 2.12 Robertson Now Leading Robertson has displaced Daubert as battlsg leader in the National League, hitting .350 to Daubert's .333; Carey, Pittsburgh, is in front again in stolen bases with 26; Flack, Chicago, in sacrifice hits, with 26; Williams In home runs with 10 and in total bases with 130; Burns, New York, in runs scored with 50. Brooklyn is ahead in team hitting with .256. The leading batters are: Robertson, New York, .350; Dau bert. Brooklyn, .333; Hinchman, Pittsburgh, .330; Wagner, Pittsburgh. .325; Long, St. Louts, .324; Zimmer man, Chicago, .320; Wheat, Brooklyn, .313; Schulte. Chicago. .312; Chase. Cincinnati, .311; Williams. Chicago. .505; Hornsby, St. Louis, .302. The leading pitchers are: Earned W. L. runs Hughes. Boston 9 2 2.46 Mammaux. Pittsburgh 13 3 1.56 Pfeffer, Brooklyn .... 11 4 2.21 Rixey, Phila 8 3 1.93 Alexander, Phila. .... 13 6 1.76 Packard. Chicago .... 5 3 1.70 Ragan, Boston 5 3 1.82 Doak, St. Louis 6 4 2.89 Smith, Brooklyn 6 4 2.37 Vaughn, Chicago 10 7 2.42 FAMOUS RACE HORSE ARRIVES Special to the Telegraph New York, July 8. Light Brigade, a famous English racehorse, was aboard the Atlantic Transport Line steamer Minnehaha, which reached here yesterday from London. It was 6aid that J. M. Camden purchased the celebrated racer for $50,000. Light Brigade Is a 8-year-old stallion by Plcton. out of Bridge of Sighs, and was bred ana owned by Lord Derby. This famous running horse won 11 races as a 3-year-old and three races as a 4-year-old. , Aa there are lots of pretty and interesting scenes which you can keep a 11 record of. As we have all the latest Autographic Kodaks and Brownies 1 which enable you to write the record on the film at the time KODAK AXD CAMERA SUPPLIES HEAGY BROS. ; Open Evenings 1200 X. Third Street tmxtxxttttxtxxxuttttxxntxxtuttxxtxttxxxxxxxxttti 1 IT'S THIS WAY | IKING OSCAR | I 5c CIGARS | | Are packed full of quality. I g Get wise and give yourself | | a treat by smoking regu-1 1 larly this 25 year old § I quality brand. 1 John C. Herman & Co. ntxxxtxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxnxxxxtxxxxtxuxxxxxxxttx SATURDAY EVENING*, BIG DAYS FOR LOCAL FANS; FIVE GAMES Railroader's Day on Thursday quest; Locals Aft Special days are on the Harrisburg baseball schedule for next week. In addition to the doubleheaders with Al bany, arrangements have been made to observe Thursday as Railroad Day. In answer to numerous requests Man ager George Cockiii has decided to start the Thursday game with Albany at 2.30. Railroad employes asked to try this change promising more liberal patronage. If successful the time may be switched from 3.15. In the event of rain on Tuesday or Wednesday, this arrangement will not start until the following week, as on days doubleheaders are played the first game starts at 2 o'clock. Albany is the one team that Harrisburg must pass in order to make a showing in the race. Most of the postponed games are with Albany, and before August 1, Baseball Summary; Where Teams Play Today WHERE THEY PLAY TO-DAY New York State League Harrisburg at Binghamton. Wilkes-Barre at Syracuse. Scrai.ton at Utlca. Albany at Elmlra. National League Philadelphia at St. Louis. Boston at Chicago. Brooklyn at Cincinnati. New York at Pittsburgh. American League Detroit at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Washington. Chicago at New York. Cleveland at Boston. Blue Ridge League Hagerstown at Frederick. Chambersburg at Hanover. Martinsburg at Gettysburg. Dauphin-Perry League Dauphin at Duncannon. Halifax at Marysville. Millersburg at Newport. Motive Power League Harrisburg at New York. Philadelphia at Wilmington. Baltimore at Meadows. Camden at Trenton. Lykens S. S. League Zlon Lutheran vs. Methodist. St. John's German Lutheran vs. Re formed. Dauphin-Schuylkill League Lykens at Williamstown. Tower City at Tremont. WHERE THEY PLAY TO-MORROW New York State league Harrisburg at Binghamton. Wilkes-Barre at Syracuse. Scranton at Utica. Albany at Elmlra. National League Philadelphia at St. Louis. Boston at Chicago. Brooklyn at Cincinnati. New York-Pittsburgh—no game. American League No gamrs scheduled. WHERE THEY PLAY MONDAY New York State League Harrisburg at Binghamton. Wilkes-Barre at Syracuse. Scranton at Utica. Albany at Elmlra. American league St. Louis at Philadelphia. ; Game to Start at 2.30 by fle er Albany's Scalp Manager George Cocklll hopes to be moving upward. l'lun Ladles' Day Plans are now underway for Ladies' Day. It is probable that no regular day will be fixed, but that each week Secretary Frank Seiss will announce a day for women fans. Both admission and grandstand will be free to the fair sex on these days. Announcement comes from Albany that the team may not return to that city. Negotiations are on to place the team at Reading. York and Williams port are also bidders for the franchise. Dr. Tate owner of the team has an nounced that he is ready to sell out. His price Is $5,000. This amount is considered large, and If cut down to $4,000, it is said Reading, will be able to raise the amount. Detroit at Washington. Cleveland at New York. Chicago at Boston. National league Philadelphia at St. Louis. Boston at Chicago. Brooklyn at Cincinnati. New York at Pittsburgh. RESULTS OF YESTERDAY New York State Lcaguo Elmlra 3, Harrisburg 2. Binghamton S. Albany 1. Scranton 3, Wilkes-Barre 2. Syracuse 5, Utlca 2. National League Philadelphia 1, St. Louis 0. Chicago 1, Boston 0. Pittsburgh 5, New York 2. Brooklyn 4, Cincinnati 3. American League Detroit 9. Philadelphia 2. Boston 2, Cleveland 1. New York 4, Chicago 3, (IS Ins.) St. Louis 8, Washington 0. Allison Hill League Reading 1, Rosewood 0. Carlisle Industrial League Carlisle Shoe 10, Beetem Textile 2. International League Rochester 8, Newark 7 (14 ins.) Buffalo 7, Providence 3 (first game) Buffalo 7, Providence 6 (2nd game) Toronto 4, Richmond 3 (11 Ins.) Montreal 5, Baltimore 4. Blue Ridge Tjeasrup Chambersburg 8, Hanover 7. Martinsburg 9. Gettysburg 5. Frederick 3, Hagerstown 1. I.ucknow Shop League Smith Shop 4, Clerks 1.. STANDING OP THE TEAMS New York State League . W. L. Pet. Blnghamton 39 20 661 Scranton 29 24 547 Elmlra 3S 28 .841 Syracuse 35 30 .538 T.\ilkes-Barre 26 30 .464 Albany 26 31 .456 Harrlsburg 15 38 .283 National League W. L. Pet. Brooklyn 40 25 .615 Philadelphia 86 29 .554 Boston 33 29 .532 Chicago 36 36 .500 New York 31 34 .477 Pittsburgh 32 36 .471 St. Louis 33 40 .452 Cincinnati 2» 41 .414 American League , W. L. Pet. New Tork 43 27 .614 Cleveland 40 31 .563 Boston 39 31 .557 Chicago 37 32 .536 •Washington S7 34 .521 Detroit 37 36 .507 St. Louis 31 41 .431 Philadelphia 17 49 .258 Allison Hill League W. L. Pet. Rosewood 7 5 .583 Galahads 7 5 .583 Stanley 5 6 .455 Reading 5 8 .385 Dauphin-Perry League W. L. Pet. Marysvtlle .. 7 2 .778 Halifax 7 3 .700 Newport 5 4 .556 Dauphin , 4 .500 Duncannon 2 7 .222 Millersburg 2 7 [222 Carlisle Industrial licaguc .. . W. ,L. Pet. Ltrdner 9 1 .900 Carlisle 7 3 .700 Businessmen 6 S .667 Beetem S 5 5 .500 Printers 3 5 .375 Todd Car 3 7 .300 Beetem T 2 6 .250 Bedford S 2 7 .222 Enola Car Shop League W. L. Pet. 1 7 1 .875 No. 2 i 6 4 .600 No. 3 4 7 .364 No. 4 2 7 .222 Globe Right Posture League W. L. Pet. Reds 6 1 .867 Blues 6 1 .857 Grays 2 6 .250 Cardinals 0 8 .000 Lykens S. 8. League W. L. Pet. United Brethren .... 3 0 1.000 Methodist 3 0 1.000 St. Mary's Catholic .. 2 0 1.000 ! Baptist s 1 .750 St. Johns 1 1 .500 Zion Lutheran 0 2 .000 Episcopal 0 2 .000 Reformed 0 3 .000 Blue Ridge League W. L. Pet. Chambersburg 28 19 .596 Hanover 25 18 .581 Hagerstown 23 22 .511 Frederick 21 23 .477 Martinsburg 21 24 .467 Gettysburg 16 26 .381 Motive Power League W. L. Pot. Trenton 7 1 .875 Harrl.burg 6 1 .857 New York 3 2 .600 Philadelphia 3 4 .429 Meadows 3 5 .375 Wilmington 3 5 .375 Baltimore 3 6 .333 Camden 1 3 .250 Dauphin-Schuylkill T.rajrne W. L. Pet. Wtlllamstown 9 8 .750 Tremont 6 4 .600 Tower City 4 8 .333 Lykens 4 8 .333 Knola Englnchowic league W. L. Pet. No. 2 3 2 .COO No. 3 4 3 .571 No. 1 1 3 .250 HARRISBURG TFSFEBG TELEGRAPH HARD CHASE FOR ELMIRA TEAM Harrisburg Loses Close Battle; Hair-raising Plays Feature Final Game in Series Special to the Telegraph Elmira, July 8. Pitcher Volz had the local hypnotized untl lthe sixth when he made an ascension, the Colo nels, Harrisburg, losing out by a score of fi to 2. CocklU's crew rallied in the ninth and it looked lige a garrison finish for the Keystone Capitol boqs. but Jordan was sent in and stopped the slaughter. Dessau was wild at intervals and several Umes was helped out of tight places by his teammates. The game was featured with sensational fielding. When Jordan came in, Harrisburg's hitting stopped. With one man out he fanned Harrison and forcod Reed out at second. Elmira Scores One With two out in the first Elmira scored one. Ward singled and stole second. Loudy walked. Coles doubled to center, scoring Ward. Harrisburg evened matters in the second. Harrison walked, took sec ond on Reed's out and registered on Downey's single. Elmira took the lead by scoring two in the sixth. Sullivan singled and took third on Hunter's single. Hunter stole second. Sullivan came in on a wild pitch. Ward's sacrifice and Loudy's sacrifice fly brought Hunter across. In the ninth Layden, first up, walk ed. Cook singled to center. Gough advanced both runners by sacrificing- Brown singled to left, scoring Layden, Cook reaching third on the hit. The score: HARRISBURG A.B. R. H. O. A. E. Layden, cf 3 1 0 1 1 0 Cook, 2b 2 0 1 1 1 0 Gough, rf 2 0 0 • 1 0 0 Brown, lb 2 0 1 10 1 0 Harrison, If 3 0 1 2 0 0 Downey, ss 4 0 1 2 2 0 Wheat, c 2 0 0 5 2 0 Volz, p 2 0 0 1 3 0 Parsons, p 0 0 0 1 0 0 •Blair 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 24 2 32412 0 ELM IRA A.B. R. H. O. A. E. Sullivan, If 4 1 1 1 0 0 Hunter, rf 4 1 1 2 1 0 Ward, lb 3 1 1 13 0 0 Loudy, 2b 2 0 1 4 5 0 Coles, cf 3 0 1 0 0 0 Bedenk, ss 3 0 1 2 4 0 Conroy, 3b 2 0 0 0 3 0 Fisher, c 3 0 0 4 2 0 Dessau, p 3 0 0 1 3 0 Jordan, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 27 3 6 27 18 0 •Batted for Volz In eighth inning. Harrisburg . ..01000000 I—2 Elmira 10000200 * —3 Summary: Two-base bits Coles, Loudy. Stolen bases Ward. Conroy. Hunter, Brown. Sacrifice' hits Gough, 2. Sacrifice fly—Loudy. Dou ble plays—Volz to Brown: Bedenk to Loudy to Ward: Conroy to Loudy to Ward. Left on bases—Harrisburg, 2; Elmira, 3. Base on balls—Off Volz, 2; off Parsons, 1; off Dessau, 4. Hits and earned runs—Oft Volz, 6 hits, 2 runs in seven innings; oft Dessau. 3 hits, no runs in eight and one-third in nings. Hit by pitcher—By Dessau, 2 (Cook 2). Struck out—By Volz, 4; by Dessau, 3; by Jordan, 1. Wild pitch—Volz. Umpires Dougherty and Kuhn. Time—l.3o. Lucknow Shop Ixsague W. L. Pet. Clerks 12 5 .706 Planing Mill st .667 Smith Shop S 4 .667 Federals 1 16 .059 Upper Dauphin-W. Schhuylkill League W. L. Pet. Gratz 5 3 .625 Valley-View 5 3 .625 Klingersteln 4 3 .571 Spring Glen "... 3 5 .375 j It's a Habi Harley - Davidson July 4th Clean-up DODGE CITY, KAS.—Harley-Davidson again the victor in annual 300-mile classic here when Irving Janke finished first in 3:45:36, lowering record established by Otto Walker last year by 10 minutes and 9 sec onds. Janke also broke 200-mile record in 2:27:22 or five minutes and 36 seconds faster than last year. Floyd Clymer, Harley-Davidson, broke 100-mile record in 1:11:45 or 2 minutes and 25 seconds faster, averag ing 83:33 miles an hour. Joe Wolter, second, and Ray Weishaar, Harley-Davidson, third. Speck Warner, Gene Walker and Morty Graves, fourth, fifth and sixth. NEW YORK, SHEEPSHEAD BAY SPEEDWAY—Parkhurst, Brier, Fredericks and Barclay captured first, second, third and fourth places on Harley-Davidsons in 100-mile feature event. Harley-Davidson also took first, second and third in 10-mile professional, and firsts in 2-mile national. 25-mile State championship, 10-mile State championship and 1-mile championship. PITTSBURGH, PA.—Harley-Davidson cleans up against Lou Crist in 5-mile professional breaking || track records. Ten-mile professional also easy for Lawrence Keys on Harley-Davidson. GRAND ISLAND, NEB.—Harley-Davidson finishes first and second in 25-mile free-for-all and first and ! second in 40-mile free-for-all against eight valves of other make. Two-mile track. BOISE, IDAHO—Harley-Davidson ridden by Williams first in every race and makes fastest mile time. The above were the largest and most important races held July 4th and were all won by Harley-Davidson Motorcycles It's a Habi HEAGY BROS., 1200 N. 3d St. Plans For Enola Festival in Concerts and Parade Plans were completed last night for the festival of the Enola Shop Baseball club to be held in Harrisburg Monday night. Tables will be spread at Third and Reily street. The big time starts at 7.30 o'clock. Manager "Hy" Sim mers was in Philadelphia yesterday and will have an interesting program of special features. The team with tho Enola band will come to Harrisburg in automobiles for a street parade. The procession will stop at the William S. Strouse and Company store, Market street; and the Telegraph building, where the band will play several selections. Manager Simmers yesterday closed with the new store for uniforms, in cluding sweaters. They will be de livered next week. The uniforms will be of major league design and 14 men will be equipped. The sweaters are dark blue. CLEAN S COR US BY CHAMPIONS Special to lit e Telegraph Maplewood, N. H., July 8. Yes terday brought the climax of the big tiap shooting championship tourna ment at the Maplewood Country Club to a close. There were 76 entries and the spectacular event of the day was the Maplewood handicap. This event wa» won by Fred Plum, or Atlantic City, with a score of 100 straight from 21 yards. Richardson, from 22 yards, Htyniger from 16 yards, also broke 99 and were the runners-up in this event. Joslyn was high professional, breaking 91) from 21 yards. In the morning events Plum, Richardson, Newcoml), Spotts and King broke 497 out of 500. Spotts and Plum breaking 100 straight. Newcomb. Richardson and King each missed one target. Maplewood handicap Fred Plum, 100; Richardson, 99; Heynlger, 99; Spotts, 97; West, 97; Bing, 96; Davis, 86; Barclay, 95; Bryson, 95; Hender son, 94; Snow, 94; Williams, 94; Sin clair, 94. Chips From the Clays Uy l'eter p. Carney Portland was awarded the 1917 tour nament of the Sportsmen's Association of the northwest. At the beginning of the present year there was 3,961 active gun clubs in the United States. Houston has been awarded the 1917 tournament of the Texas State Sports men's Association. Traphouses have been erected on the grounds of the Portland (Ore.) Gun Club that will hold 30,000 targets. One of the most ardent trapshooters In the Pacific slope is C. A. Fleming, mayor, of Spokane, Wash. 70.000 targets were trapped in the two days' tournament of the California Nevada State association on the San Jose tCal.) grounds. Miss Gladys Reld, of Portland. (Ore.) demonstrated in the Northwest Handi cap event in the Northwest Sportsmen's Association tournament that she Is one of the coming women trapshooting ex perts in the country. She broke 47 out of 50 tlelng for first place. Henry Pflrrmann, of Lon Angeles, who won the California-Nevada State championship with 100 straight and had an unfinished run of 111 straight is only a recruit at trapshooting. Three years ago this summer he was the raw est of all novices; now he Is one of the best shots on the coast. The Oregon State shoot will be held in Salem in 1917. Up in Alaska they have a lot of good trapshooters. Juneau has •&. club of live , businessmen and they shoot team matches quite often with a club of businessmen at Douglas, "a suburb," across the Gasteneau channel. ' "\ Island Park Schedule Tuesday—Harrisburg vs. Albany, 2 games, 2:00 p. m., 4:00 p. m. Wednesday Harrisburg vs. Al bany, two games, 2:00 p. m., 4:00 p. m. Thursday Albany vs. Harrisburg, one game, starting at 2:30 p. m. Railroaders' Day. JULY 8. 1916. I WELLY'S & CORNER i Captain Walter Blair of the local team is a reul leader according to the belief of local fans. He has develop ed a wonderful piece of machinery out of a disgruntled Troy baseball aggre gation. Harrisburg is losing games by one run. The team has played more extra inning games than any other ag gregation in the New York State Lea gue. The pitchers are coming around and there is yet some to make a good showing at the finish. The popularity of "Billy" Mehring as a fight promotor is again proven. A brief announcement yesterday that he is planning for a big open air show brought many requests from boxers to be placed on the program. Manager Mehring is not going to hurry in ar ranging his bill. He has had exper ience and will, devote his negotiations to lighters who fight. Pitcher Alexander of the Phillies won another game yesterday. He was touched up for six safeties. That does not worry Alex. St. Louis was guess- Bits From Sportland Enola Festival at Third and Kelly streets Monday night. The Pirates are movln* faster. Hard luck to loose a game that be longed to Harrisburg. Downey Is proving a good find. Volz is improving. He goes longer each game. Once the pitchers work regularly there will be more victories. Huenkle and Hefrlch are landing the victories. Walter Bair is proving a great corn commanding officer. John Fox came back in the game yesterday and crimped Scranton's win ning stride. The Barons won yester ! day, score 2 to 1. Syracuse won from Utica yesterday, score 5 to 2. Taylor was the big fac -1 tor with his puzzlers. Harrisburg will meet Red Calhoun's 1 Bingies to-day, to-morrow and Mon day. Binghampton won from Albany yes terday, score 3 to 1. Dr. Tate's team fielded poorly at critical times. Brown is still holding down first base, and making good. He ought to be relieved. Bricker's two base hit In the open ing inning yesterday. Drought a victory for the Reading team in the Allison Hill League. Rosewood went down fighting hard. The Night Truckers defeated the di vision Transfer team yesterday, score 9 to 1. Team No. 1 of the Enola Shop League yesterday tied up with No. 4; score 1 to 1. The Gray defeated the Cardinals in the Globe Right Posture League, score 14 to 8. In the Lucknow Shop League team, the Smith Shop won yesterday's game. Score 2 to 0, downing the Clerks. NEWSBOYS HAVE PRACTICE The newsboys in preparation for i their game this afternoon with the La bor and Industry Department team, held a practice match yesterday after noon. They tied up with the Leader A. C., score 6 to 6. The game was called on account of darkness. The Newsboys put up a fast game and fielded fast. The Leader A. C. had costly errors. The Central high school tennis courts at Front and Seneca streets are ready. Three courts have been equip ped and play will start Monday. Nets, and other equipment can be had at the home of Lewis Rimer, 2241 Penn street. ing, and could not connect with men on bases. Railroaders are enthusiastic base ball fans. They like to see the game. Hours for work, sometimes, keep the men from seeing games. The Penns.v men want to help Manager George Cockill, so they got busy, circulated a petition requesting that games start at 2.30. This will be done. There will be days when a game will start at 4.30 for businessmen. Everything possible will be done to gather the crowds. Baseball history for the past two years shows that Herzog is a failure as a manager. Newhall of the Cin cinnati Commercial Tribune has re viewed the past as far back as possible and shows Just where the leaders of the Reds has failed. It is claimed that Herzog lacked headwork. He started with a good team that is now far down the list. Every effort will be made to move up but the time is short. New Officers Elected by International Text Book Co. Scranton, Pa., July B.—Complete re organization of the International Text Book Company, whlcn controls the In ternational Correspondence Schools, was effected yesterday, when the re cently elected board of directors met. All the old officers, the men who were at the helm when the corporation nearly went on the rocks a year ago. Including T. J. Foster, founder and for many years president of the schools, were shelved. They were not let out, but were given positions of lesaer im portance. The new officers are: President, Ralph E. Weeks; Vice-Presidents, Ed ward L. Hall and Charles E. Law rence; controller, W. E. Hodrus; treas urer, Edward H. Beaver. LIEUTENANT SPALDING KILLED New York, July B.—Lieutenant A. Goodwill Spalding, of the Innlsklllen Fusiliers, has been killed in action, according to a cable message received by relatives here to-day. Lieutenant. Spalding was 25 years old and adopted son of the late A. G. Spalding. 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