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INDEPENDENTS HAVE ATTRACTIVE CAGE SCHEDULE—MAY CUT BASEBALL GAMES
YALE BUSY WITH
INDOOR SPORTS
Basketball Team Opens in New
York Next Week; Play in
Harrisburg Jan. 5
New Haven, Conn., Dec. 19.—Yale
has just launched its hockey and bas
ketball for the season of 1917. The
two teams have been in training one
week.
For the basketball team the season
will open next week in New York
City, wlieiv the College of the City of
New Y'ork will be met.
This may be the only opportunity of
New Yorkers to see the Eli five dur
ing the season with the exception of
the intercollegiate championship
match at Columbia in February.
Yale plays an all-college team at
Harrisburg on January 5. This is an
unusual thing for a varsity team, but
It means much for basketball en
thusiasts in the Capital City of the
Keystone State.
Bernie Tommers, the new Yale
coach, has a squad of nearly 60 can
didates Rt work, and they have had
six strenuous days of cage competi
tion and outdoor conditioning exer
cises.
The team will contain both the son
and the grandson of an Ex-President
of the United States, Charley Taft,
the five's captain and guard, and
Newell Garfield, ttee team's center.
They have been for two years on the
team, although Garfield was unable to
finish last season because of an oper
ation.
Two athletes from other teams,
Harry Le Gore, the baseball captain
and football star, and Bob Rhett, the
outfielder, have just joined the squad.
Mallon, Bush, the veteran Orson Kin
ney and Stradella, are the other most
promising players.
Yale has a veteran hockey team
■which has just closed its first week's
practice, six of last year's players
being again on the ice, Including Cap
tain Mooney Murray, York, Bierwirth,
Armour, Jacob and Gould.
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Penn Picks Players For
Coast Game With Oregon
Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 19. De
spite the infant blizzard which swept
over Franklin Field yesterday after
noon, the Penn 'Varsity football team
was sent through an hour's practice in
preparation for the coming game with
the University of Oregon .at Pasadena,
California, on New Year's Day. Coach
Folwell sent the twenty men who re
ported for practice, through a fast
signal drill, a short forward passing
workout and a mock scrimmage.
The football committee at a special
meeting yesterday afternoon ratified
the list of players for the trip to the
Pacific coast, discussed at length the
schedule for 1917 and the coaching
situation. Wharton Sinkler, chair
man of the committee, stated that
nothing definitely had been done in
reference to the schedule and the se
lection of the head coach and his as
sistants. The new members of the
committee, recently appointed by the
new board of directors of the Athletic
Association, attended the meeting.
The following players will take the
trip to Pasadena: Captain-elect Heinie
Miller, ex-Captain Neill Mathews,
Little, Hennlng, Erstravaag, 1.. Wray.
Urquhart, Bell. Light. Derr, Berry,
Crane. Young Titzell, Wirkman, Berg,
A. Wray, Robinson, Weiser, Bryant,
Williams and Quigley.
MISSOURI SOLDIERS WIN"
I.aredo, Texas, Dec. 19.—Baseball
in the I>aredo district of the Mexican
border service came to an official end
yesterday, with the Fourth Missouri
infantry team winner of the league
pennant and a trophy cup.
Besides the champion team the
league was composed of regimental
teams from the Second Missouri in
fantry, First New Hampshire infantry,
Fourteenth United States cavalry.
Ninth United States cavalry and two
local baseball organizations.
ELEVEN TEAMS TIED UP
New York, Dec. 19. —Eleven of the
fourteen teams entered in the twenty
fourth annual six-day bicycle race
at Madison Square Garden were tied
at T a. m. to-day, the thirty-first hour,
with 644 miles and 9 laps to their
credit. The Spencer-Carroll team
dropped out at 2.37 a. m. and were
given four hours to provide team
partners. Shortly before 7 o'clock,
having failed to do so. they were of
ficially declared out of the race.
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Holiday Attractions Include
Fast Teams; Vincomc Plays
Saturday
. Manager Ike McCord has completed
i an attractive basketb:tM schedule for
| the Harrisburg Independents. The
I season will end with the Easter games.
I He has also arranged to play away
Ifrom home and Harrisburg will be
well advertised by this aggregation,
j For next Saturday Vincomc will
I play. This Philadelphia five is one of
I the best in the State and has been in
j the game for a long time.
Holiday Attractions
On Christmas the St. Malachy Am
erican League team will be the at
traction. The Pittston State League
five plays Saturday, December 30.
Starting with New Year's Day the
schedule will be:
January 1, Lancaster; 6, Trenton:
13. St. Elizabeth, Philadelphia; 20,
Rockwood, independent champions,
Philadelphia; 27. Gettysburg College:
February 3, York; 10. and 17, East
ern League teams, pending; 24, Penn
| sylvania State League Club, pending;
March 3. Carlisle Indians; 10 Eastern
League club, pending; 17 Kockwood,
j Philadelphia; 24, open.
Pittsburgh's Schedule Has
Some New Grid Opponents
Pittsburgh, Dec. 19.—Navy and Al
legheny College have been dropped
from the University of Pittsburgh
football schedule and games have been
scheduled with Lehigh, West Yirginai
and Bethany College. Pennsylvania
will be met in the annual game at
Philadelphia and Syracuse will play
Pitt here.
The complete schedule as announc
ed to-day follows: September 29,
West Virginia, at Fairmont; October 6,
Hethony, at Pittsburgh; October 13,
Lehigh, at Pittsburgh; October 20,
Syracuse, at Pittsburgh: October 27,
Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; Novem
ber 3, Westminster, at Pittsburgh: No-
I \ ember 10, Washington and Jefferson,
. at Pittsburgh: November 17, Carnegie
Tech, at Pittsburgh, and November 29,
! Penn State, at Pittsburgh.
Williamstown High Wins
Easy Basketball Victory
Williamstown high five maintained
its winning streak last night by defeat
ing Tower City five, 33-15. Thomp
son, Fickinger and Frantz starred. The
line-up and summary:
Williamstown High Tower City High
Thompson (Flinn) F Shadle
Capt. Capt.
Fickinger (Haas) F Kline
Frantz (Myers* ..C Miller
Drum (Stinner) . .G Schoffstalt
Warlow (Parker) ~G Seeslioltz
(Reinhardt)
Field goals—Shadle 4, Kline 1, Mil
ler 1, Frantz 8, Fickinger 5. Tompson
;5. Foul goals—Thompson 8, Kline 3.
j Referee —Haiston, Susquehanna).
CARLISLE HIGH SCHEDULE
Carlisle. Pa.. Dec. 19. The Carlisle
' high school will this year for the first
time in its history play a series of
| basketball games, embracing leading
| teams throughout Southern Pennsyl
! ania and Maryland. The schedule,
I just completed, is as follows:
January 6, Oberlin high school, at
<"arlisle: 12. open; 20, Hershey high
school, at Carlisle; 27. Chambersburg
i high school, at Carlisle; February 3,
Camp Hill high school, at Carlisle; 10,
i Wavpesboro high school, at Carlisle;
. 16, open; 24. Albright Preparatory, at
i Carlisle: March 2, Camp Hill high
school at Camp Hill; 9, Steelton high
school reserves, at Steelton; 16, Cham
' ersburg high school, at Chambers
burg: 23, Waynesboro high school, at
Waynesboro; 31, Steelton high school,
at. Carlisle.
DUNDEE DEFEATS FLEMING
Philadelphia. Dec. 19. Nettled by
adverse decisions given in recent bouts
in this city, Johnny Dundee, the Ital
ian lightweight, said he would make
his own decision last night at Olym
pia. His opponent was Buck Flem
ing, of this city. Dundee made his
threat good. Dundee scored a clean
cut verdict. He won four of the six
rounds. In the last round the Italian
I tore in, and putting every ounce of
130V2 pounds back of his blows, drove
Fleming all around the ring, and the
atter was lucky to escape a knockout,
it was a bout brlmfull of lightning
leads, counters and exchanges. Dun
dee's fast work thrilled the crowd and
! at times appeared to daze Fleming.
READING TAKES UP SOCCER
Reading. Pa., Dec. 19. At a meet
ing of the board of governors of the
Reading High Athletic Association at
noon to-day it was unanimously de
cided to add soccer to the list of sports
now fostered and promoted by the
Red and Black. Reading high has
studftntq that are now playing soccer
with the Reading and Olivet, soccer
clubs, and should turn out an eleven
that will be of a championship caliber.
Athletic Director Weber will issue a
call for candidates for the team after
the holidays, and games will be ar
ranged with out-of-town soccer teams
to be played on George Field.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
Duckpin Game Popular;
Last Night's Scores Large
, j Solvay Howling League
(Taylor alleys)
Team No. 4 1923
I Team No. 2 1846
; Keyser (4) 168
Keyser (4) • 457 |
I*. It. It. V. M. C. A. League
Maclay 25 58
Association 2315
Jacoby (M) 232
Jacoby (M) 557
Academy Duckpiu League
(Academy alleys)
Bitters 1469
New Ideas 1448
! Martin (B) 135
jC. Nelly (B) 340
Casino Duckpin league
(Casino alleys)
Nobles ■ 1432
Majestic 1389
Shooter (N) 133
Shooter (N) 377
At Ijctijoync
(Fickes alleys)
Lemoyne 23 42!
Enola C. 1 2150 '
Reeser (L) 232 j
Heeser (L) 592 I
At Xew Cumberland
(Dull's alleys)
I Married Men 2 401;
I Single Men 2225 !
| Line (MM) 201 !
[ Line (MM) 539 i
Standing of Teams
Solvay
W. L. Pet.
| No. 1 16 8 .667
No. 4 14 7 .667
No. 3 10 17 .370
No. 2 8 16 .333
Casino Duckpin
W. L. Pet. I
Majesties 13 5 .722 I
Nobles 10 8 .555
Pennsys 8 7 .553 i
Strollers 7 8 .466 |
Audions 5 10 .333 :
Headings 5 10 .333 j
Academy Duckpin
W. L. Pet. !
Officers 24 12 .667 !
| Barbers 20 16 , .556 i
Bitters 21 18 .539]
Bakers 17 16 .515 1
New Ideas 13 20 .393 1
Factors 10 23 .303 1
Schedule for Wednesday—Bakers i
vs. Factors.
HILL LAXtiE DYING
Bill Lange, famous outfielder of the
Chicago National league team in the
| nineties, is dying at his home in San
Francisco as a result of an accident
sustained in his bail-playing days.
In catching a line drive, Lange ran
full speed into a fence, breaking a
board and sustaining a cut lip. Since
then he has suffered several times
from bloodpoisoning of the lips. He
has been ill for several days with a
serious recurrence of bloodpoisoning.
Confesses to Forest Fires
"Just to See Big Blaze"
Williamsport, Pa., Dec. 19. —Frank
Holden, charged with starting tires
that burned over 3,000 acres of the
State forest reserve in the Pine Creek
district, has made a complete confes
sion, according to State Fire Marshal
Thomas G. Ryan.
"I just wanted to see a fire," Holden
is quoted as saying. '
He continued by admitting, said the
fire marshal, that he had started fires
in twelve different places within a few
hours. He said he hadn't thought of
the damage that would be done, but
just wanted to see a big blaze.
Holden, who is 22 years old, told
Mr. Ryan that when he was twelve
years old he atempted to burn a school
house in Cummings township. Two
years later he set tire to his father's!
barn at Lucullus. A few years ago. i
he said, he set fire to a house at Jer- j
sey Shore, but the blaze was extin
guished before much damage had been 1
done.
Tried to Wreck Limited,
Gets 10-Year Sentence
Allentown, Pa., Dec. 19. Plead-'
ing guilty in court here yesterday to :
placing ties on the Lehigh Valley I
Transit Company tracks in Washing- i
ton township, in an effort to wreck j
the midnight limited, the fast express!
on the Slatington Division, Elias j
Krause, of Hoffmans, was to-day given !
a ten-year jail sentence by Judge C.'
A. Groman. and ordered to pay SI,OOO 1
fine in addition.
Krause harbored an imaginary
grievance against the company be
cause its trolley lines run close to his 1
property. He made two attempts to
wreck cars, he admitted.
Bandits Pour Oil Over
American and Burn Him
El Paso. Texas, Dec. 19.—After be-'
ing captured by Villa bandits near
Jiminez, O. M. Northop, an American, j
was burned at the stake, according to
information received here by United 1
States Government officials.
The Villistas captured Northop on!
a ranch near Jiminez, and, taking him I
into the city, tied him to a stake and
then poured coal oil over his body, 1
applying a match to the oil, the ban-1
dits watched Northop suffer untora
agony until he fainted. Then theyi
riddled his body with bullets.
MAY CUT BASEBALL
DATES NEXT YEAR
Schedule to Have Fourteen
Less Gaines; Await Czar's *
Approval
Philadelphia, Dep. 19. —Unless all
signs fail the baseball schedule will bo
shortened next season. The commit
tee will meet soon to draft dates for
I lie coming season, und if JJa.ll John
son, of the American League, lias his
say 14 0, instead of 154 games, will
beplayed.
<>f course, the schedules of the
major bodies must coincide, but the
Czar of the newer organization may
be able to bring things about to his
own way of thinking.
During the sessions of the two
major bodies recently it developed that
all hands thought the lopping off of
a few weeks might tend to benetit the
game, and it is understood that officials
of both bodies were inclined to be
lievo that Bail had the right idea of
the subject.
"The scheme may not be attempted
next year," declared a National League
advocate of Johnson's idea, "but it is
bound to come by 1918, unless early
Spring weather conditions improve.
"For the last live years early season
business has been very poor. Only
the weather has been to blame, as un
der normal conditions public interest
in every city should be at high pitch
for the first six weeks of the season.
It takes that time for eacli big league
club to make the complete circuit, and
for that part of the journey, at least,
every entrant has a pennant chance. 1
"October weather invariably has
proven more affable to the game than
late April and early May. But by Oc
tober interest is dead, save in the
cities which have teams that enjoy
mathematical chances to win a pen
nant. Even if the 154-game schedule
should remain an institution, I believe
it would be a wise move to open ten
days or two weeks later and close
later. There are enough open dates
to permit a more compact schedule
that would delay the windup onlv a
few days later than last year. The
American League clubs of the West
finished almost a week ahead of the
National League close in the East last
season.
Don't Worry, Imitate the
Birds, Says Health Service
Washington, Dec. 19.—The public
health service, which has been gath
ering statistics on nervous diseases
and their tendency to shorten life, has
issued a bulletin against worrying.
"So far as is known," says the bulle
tin, "no bird ever tried to build more
nests than its neighbor; no fox ever
fretted because he had only one hole
in which to hide: no squirrel ever died
of anxiety lest he should not lay by
enough nuts for two winters instead
of one, and no dog ever lost any sleep
over the fact that he did not have
enough ham bones laid aside for his
declining years."
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DECEMBER 19, 1916.
f WELLY 5 % CORNER
Jimmy Wilde, flyweight champion i
of England, last night knocked out j
Frankie Di Meltl, better known as the'
Zulu Kid of Brooklyn. The finish!
came in the eleventh round ol' a
twenty-round bout at London.
University of Kansas holds records!
.or unique coaching Ideas. Their
halfbacks did not step high enough sol
they introduced a novel stunt. Boxes
IS inches deep and about 3t; inches
square were placed about a stride i
apart. Each afternoon the halfbacks
were sent down the lane of lioxes 011
the run. The penalty for failure to
high step was to ram a shin against [
the box. After a few trials collisions!
grew infrequent, and now those Kan-i
sas athletes are ranked among the best 1
leg lifters in the country.
The Lancaster County Basketball!
League is now assured. The circuit [
will include Elizabethtown, Manheim, i
Marietta, and Columbia. John Swank
of Lancaster is president.
RIDERS BEHIND OLD SCHEDULE
New York, Dec. 18. Three teams
each lost a lap in the six-day bicycle
race at Madison Square Garden dur
ing the twenty-fifth hour, at the end
of which the other eleven teams were
tied with 538 miles and six laps. The
record for this hour is 558 miles and
3 laps made by Lawrence and Magin
in 1914.
The Smith-Kopsky team was lap
ped while the E. Ohrt-Gello and
Spencer-Carroll combinations were
penalized for faulty pick-ups.
FIGHTER DIES FROM BLOW
Denver, Dec. 19.—Joseph Romero,
aged 20, a bantamweight fighter of Al
buquerque, N. M., died here last night,
two hours after a bout with Jack
Bratton, of San Francisco. ltomero
was knocked down in the fifth round
and his seconds tossed up the sponge
at the beginning of the sixth round.
TESSAH TO PLAY WII.LIAMSTOWN
The Tessah basketball team of the
Hassett Boys club will open the sea
son at Williamstown, Christmas day,
playing the Williamstown high quin
tet. On December 29 the Steelton hi:h
Reserve team will be the attraction
on Cathedral Hall floor.
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many earners put off buying Life Insurance
because of the difficulty of paying the first
full year's premium.
The solution is easy. Use your Savings Account. Regu
lar deposits of a small proportion of your income soon equal
the necessary amount. A plan of this sort also insures
the prompt settlement of the second and subsequent
premiums.
You can open a Savings Account at this bank with any
sum from $1 lift, which will be the initial step toward
your purchase of a Life Insurance Policy.
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| Cutchor Larry McLean is to be
given another chance to make good in
| the major leagues. Through the big
: heurtedness of Manager Christ Mat
thewson, Larry will catch for the Beds
j next season.
l")r. Fred N. Tate of Albany, owner
of the New York State Leaguo fran
i cliise for Reading, has sold a half in
terest to George VViltse, the manager.
Eddie Zimmerman of York, who
|hu flgurdd ill the big leagues as a
third baseman and hitter may man
j age the llagerstown team In the Line
| ltidge League, lie has a knack for
picking winning baseball players.
! Football rules will bo discussed to
i night at Philadelphia. Coaches, man
| agers and players will meet in Hotel
Walton, Philadelphia, and report on
the season's work. Several changes
i are contemplated. It is said the for
ward pass legislation has been un
i satisfactory.
Barnes Leads Bowlers;
Montgomery Close Second
Barnes, of the Calumet team of the
Casino Bowling league, has jumped
i into the lead for scoring honors. In
SO games he has scored 5,636 points,
and has an average of ISB. Mont
gomery, who has held the lead and
plays with the Electrics, is one point
behind and his total is 5.612. Nine
members of the league are dropping
the pins at an average of 180 and
over.
The highest three single games dur
ing the season were, Montgomery, 711;
Barnes, 692; Berkemeyer, 655; At
tacks, 683; Bobb, 675. Montgomery
holds the record for the highest singlo
game score, 257; and for highest total,
685.
lIIG FELLOWS FIGHT TO DRAW
"Gunboat" Smith and Frank Moran
fought a ten-round draw at Brooklyn
last night. Smith had the best of the
battle in six of the rounds. He was
active and aggressive. Moran showed
his best form in the ninth and tenth
rounds. In the fifth, Moran had
Smith groggy as a result of a left blow
on the jaw.