SPORTS—REAL BASKETBALL IN CITY LEAGUE TO-NIGHT-GOLF CLUB ELECTION
CAMP HILL FIVE
STILL IN GAME
Faculty Director Tells His Side
of Player Controversy;
No Cancellations
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PROF. FRED H. ROCKEY
Camp Hill high school athletic au
thorities are sore over a published re
port that the basketball team would
quit for the season because of loss of
two stars. Professor Fred H. Rockey,
faculty director, writes:
"There was published yesterday in |
a morning paper a statenient to the
effect that Camp Hill high school was
going to cancel the remaining games |
on its basketball schedule and not j
finish out the season because the ma- |
jority of players upon the team had j
resigned. *
"This statement is so far away from [
the truth of the matter that I am |
writing this letter to ask you to put!
the facts before the public.
Two Players Suspended
"Two of he players upon our bas
ketball team were suspended for
breach of discipline. Upon their re
turn to school they decided not to par
take in athletics and later, in fact,
dropped out of school. This, how
ever, has not induced us to think of
giving up basketball or cancelling the
remaining games upon our schedule.
"We shall very probably have to
substitute lighter teams for some that
our schedule calls for us to meet, but
we do not expect to close down our ]
basketball season until the end of'
March. Yoder, of Harrisburg, Is still j
coaching the team and we have elect- i
ed a new captain in the person of'
Clarence Stephenson. There will be
si basketball team at Camp Hill until |
the season is over."
Busy Night For Bowlers;
Some High Duckpin Scores
Casino Ten pin league
Jolly Five 2,698 i
Basch (J. F.) 253 I
Basch (J. F.) 6181
Caslr.o Duckpin Ix-aßue
Strollers 1,401 j
Majesties 1:592 I
Leo (M.) 127 j
Harris (M.) 335 \
Academy Duckpin I-cagur
Bitters 1,544 j
Officers L 527
R. Harmon (O.) 142 I
R. Harmon (O.) 34S|
P. R. R. Y. M. C. A. League
Association 2,603
Trainmen 2 4 62
G. K. Smith (T.) 202
G. K. Smith (T.) 554
TTiek-a-Tlirift tosiic
Sparrows / 1,876
Hawks 1^609
G. Ellis (S.) ]69
G. Ellis (S.) 4(i4
MISCELLAXEOCS
Hull's—New Cumberland
Single Men 2,415
Married Men !.2!329
Pugan tS. M.) ..189
Hartman (S. M.) 516
Dugan (S. M.) 516
Pnrthemore—N'cw Cumberland
Parthemore 1,378
Doutrich ][334
Myers (P.) '172
Myers (P.) |.. 3( ; 8
Ijemoyne—Flekes Alleys
Lemoyne 1 485
Linglestown l' 3 o<)
Stetler <L *123
Stetler (L.) 310
Enola—At I*. R. R. Y. >l. C. V.
Eastbound 2.689
"Westbound 2*705
Wallacs (E. B.) .' '206
Wallace (E. B.) 615
STANDING OF TEAMS
Casino Tcnpin
W. U PCT.
Llec-trics 27 21 .561
Calumets 30 24 .555
Jolly Five 29 25 .537
Alphas 23 25 .479
Orpheums 23 28 .451
Rovers 22 29 .431
Casino Duckpin
, r , „ W. L. PST.
Majesties 35 10 777
Strollers 25 17 ]s9s
Nobles 21 21 .500
Pennsys 18 24 .428
Readings 14 25 .359
Audlons 13 29 .309
Academy Duc kpin
, _ W. L. PCT.
Officers 39 24 .619
Barbers 33 27 .555
Bakers 32 28 .533
Bitters 33 .476
MARLEY 2y, IN. DEVON 2*4 IN.
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TUESDAY EVENING,
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AN OLD KEFIUIN
"To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome."—Poe.
Out along an ancient track.
Where Fate takes its fickle spin,
Greece and Homo have drifted back
AH the 13ush has called them in;
So. amid the hit-and-miss,
We now shift the battle cry-
To the glory that is Tris
And the grandeur that is Ty.
Greece once hit .484,
Rome poled out .4 93;
Each one knew tho Winning Score
In the mighty jubilee;
Once they knew the buoyant bliss
Linked unto the Ratting Eye,
Knew the glory that is Tris
And the grandeur that is Ty.
One and all fade from the frame.
Men and nations—through the fight—
i Mold their brief span in the game
As they pass into the night;
But before they come to this
Now, before their fame must fly—
Here's the glory that is Tris
And the grandeur that is Ty.
Not lo forget both the glory and the grandeur attached to that ven
erable ruin, John Honus Wagner.
Under Two Flags
Considerable argument and debate has been bandied back and forth as
to the best golfer among major league ball players. For a while the
scrimmage was close between Christy Mathewson and Chief Bender. But
both apparently have been supplanted.
Writing from Ormond, Fla., Colonel William B. Ilanna dispatches this
interesting information:
"The best golfer right now in professional baseball ranks is Fred Mer
kle. Players here tell me he is the best player on the Ormond course, which
is no part of an easy one. In a round I had with Fred yesterday, in a
high wind blowing in from the ocean, here is his card:
Out 5 4 6 5 3 6 3 5 5 —42
In 4 5 5 3 5 4 4 4 6—39—81
, According to Colonel Hanna, who is one of the keenest observers in
, sportdom's ranks, "Merkle's tee shots dull daylight for fine distances, he
; plays his irons in true crisp professional style* and his approaches were of
the first order."
Merkle, a far greater first basem an at his best than he was ever giv#n
credit for being, may yet find the fame in golf that we denied him in base
ball. For he is younger now than Walter J. Travis was before Walter J.
ever swung a club, ans as golf has a deep appeal to the Toledo entry, he may
be the first professional ball player th at turned to professional golf.
Unobliging Freddie
- "One trouble with Fulton," says an exchange, "is this—he hasn't yet
shown whether or not he can stand rough punishment."
In his next scramble Freddie should stick his jawbone out and let the
official test proceed.
In the exploitation of such a vital problem he should be the last one
to hang back.
Calling the Turn
In regard to the genial art of fighting no one launched a keener proph
ecy than Hughey Keough when he wrote a good many years ago:
"There was no high finance about the game of spoiling mugs
When the dear old tub from Boston was the king:
When we paid our honest tribute to the other tanks and jugs
And the soiree with the raw uns was the thing.
Fighting bade adieu to its traditions long ago
And kissed its grimy hand to sentiment
When they took It to the steam heat from the hail and rain and snow
And a champion aspired to be a gent.
The manly art of scrapping is debtutalized to death,
And you smell It when you take your cushioned seat,
For the air is permeated with the frame-up's tainted breath.
And the question simply is, 'YVho's going to cheat?'"
There's one thing about gplf In winter that we esteem—viz.: It keeps
you out of the open air.
"Hold-out ball players ask for quarter." This is salary reduction with
a vengeance.
Since arriving in America Les Darcy has lost no precious time proving
just why he ran away from Australia. When it comes to the noble art of
ducking out from under Lcs should be rated at plus 4 in the official handi
cap list. ,
The impending break between Germany and America has been a mere
detail in Philadelphia compared to the impending break between Alexan
der and the Phillies. The first is a matter of debate. The second would be
100 per cent, calamity.
ONLY ONE GAME
IN QUOIT LEAGUE
Highspire Will Meet Camp No.
716 of This City; Standing
of Teams
Camp No. 8, P. O. S. of A. team,
i is still in the lead in the quoit league
race. Steelton and Enhaut are
tie for second honors. Steelton took
ten straight games from Penbrook.
There will be only one gsune play
ed this week, between Highspire and
Camp 716 at Harrisburg. The other
games were postponed as they came
on the 22, which is the date of the
Dauphin southern district convention
at Camp 639, Harrisburg. The stand
ing follows:
Standing of tlio League
W. L. Pet
Camp 8 46 9 .836
Camp 102 41 24 .630
Camp 522 41 24 .630
Camp 716 35 35 .500
Camp 639 24 36 .400
Camp 505 21 39 350
Camp 477 17 48 .262
Local Star Is Captain
of Lehigh Wrestling Team
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ROBERT GOOD
"Bob" Good, a former Teclj athlete,
has been elected captain of the Lehigh
wrestling team. He is also a member
of the football and track teams at
that institution. Good has been a star
in every branch of athletics.
ENHAUT ALL-STARS WIN
Baldwin Juniors lost to the strong
Enhaut All-Stars on Saturday, score,
S4 to 29. Oberlln High school girls
played between halves and won from
the Steelton High school girls by the
score of 9-0.
The Baldwin Junior basketball five
would like to arrange for a game
away this week. Communicate with
C. E. Pugh, 24 8 South Second street,
Steelton. Pa.
MURRAY TO LEAD PIRATES
Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 20.—Billy
Murray, former manager of the Phil
lies and former scout of the Pitts
burgh club, was appointed business
manager of the Pittsburgh club by
President Dreyfuss, to succeed Peter
Kelly.
CITY LEAGUERS
PLAY TONIGHT
Board of Governors Hold Busy
Session in Boyd Memorial
Hall
At a meeting last night of the
Board of Governors of the City Ama
teur League, held at Boyd Memorial
hall, matters of importance "were
taken up. The managers of the vari
ous teams did not press the charge
against the West End club for an
Infraction of a rule and the matter
was dropped. The West End club
was given the permission to use Beck
and Good during the remainder of
the season. A fine was imposed on
the management of tho Arrow team,
which forfeited a game last Thurs
day night. The Board of Governors,
at the proposal of tho representatives,
consented to the holding of a dance
after the games scheduled for Thurs
day night of this week in the Armory
hall.
Games at Armory
To-night, on the Armory floor, the
City League teams will battle for su
premacy. The opening contest will
be between the Galahad R. C. and
the P. R. R. Arrow teams, while in
the second the Rosewood A. C. team
will oppose the West End A. C. quin
tet. The first contest will start at
8 o'clock.
Kline, of the Rosewood Club five,
who led the individual scoring ear
lier In the season, has regained that
position, although he did not play in
any league games during the last
week. Good, of the West End team,
who passed him several weeks ago,
is now in eighth place. Gebhard and
Hoss, the former of the Galahad five,
and the latter of the Hebrew team,
are both playing sensational ball uut
are among the most consistent scor
ers in the league. Tittle, of the Koso
wood quintet, and Holland, of the
west End Club, are also playing a
strong game.
FAMOUS PACKH DEAD
Goshen. N. Y., Feb. 20.—The great
pacer, Joe Patchen, 2:01 Vi, sire of the
world's champion Dan Patch, 1:50,
and many other noted thoroughbreds,
Sunday at Joseph F. McClean's
Midfleld Farm here.
The horse was foaled in 1889 In
Peabodv, Kan. His career on the turf
was one of the most remarkable In
the annals of harness racing. He was
known as "the Iron horse," and was
owned at one time by the late Senator
John McCarthy, of Hrooklyn, who
was the proprietor of the Parkwav
!• arm here.
KELiCHNER TO SOOCT
Myerstown. Pa., Feb. 20.—Pro'.
Charles S. Kelchner, of Albright Col
lege, has signed a contract to again
act as scout for the St. U>uls club, of
the American League. Professor
Kelchner is in charge of athletics at
Albright and will take up his scouting
duties with the close of the college
baseball season early in June.
HARIUSBURG TELEGRAPH
MILLKR WltH NEW ORLEANS
Annville, Pa., Feb. 20.—Eddie Mil
ler, of this place, has signed to play
first base for the New Orleans team cf
the Southern League, and will leave
March 5 for the purpose of reporting
for spring practice. Miller played first
base for the Galveston team of the
Texas League last season, and the
New Orleans management, which liad
farmed him, recalled him as a result
During the winter Miller has been
keeping in condition by handling
freight for the Reading Railway at
the Annville station.
REULRACII JOHNS BRAVES
Boston, Feb. 20.—The signed ron
tratts of Edward Reulbacli, pitcher,
S"1 J ' Carlisle Smith, third baseman,
were received yesterday by the Boston
National League Club. Olaf Henrik-I
pnnt™ n .°. utfl M lder ' has sent I,is signed
| contract to tl*c Boston Americans';
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JOHNSON IS READY
TO START TRAINING
New York, Feb. 20.—Ban Johnson,
president of the American League,
left yesterday for Chicago to assume
charge of the military plaiiß of his
four Western clubs. Captain T. L.
Huston, of the Yankees, will super
vise the campaign for tho Eastern di
vision. Mr. Johnson said:
"The Captain and myself have map
ped out a course of action within the
last few days that is bound to show
great results.
"The American League club own
ers have not entered into this thing
in any spirit of levity. All have
pledged their heartiest co-operation.
A great deal of the success of the ven
ture now rests with the players. But
FEBRUARY 20, 1917.
I am sure that our club owners and
managers can point out the great
physical and moral advantages in a
way that will appeal to the sense of
pride and loyalty of their followers.
"You will understand, of course,
that we have no thought of making
the military courso compulsory. We
would not have the power or right
to do so if we chose. But we can make
it an object for the boys to go In
with us in the spirit with which his
associates have fallen in with Captain
Huston's plan. I think I know iny
American League players well enough
to prophesy that there will not be a
bit of lagging in any of the eight
spring camps."
Casino Players Make
Excellent Averages
Barnes, of the Calumets, is still
leading the Casino tenpin league with
an average of 192 pins per game. Up
until February 17, every player In the
league rolled on an average of 170
points each game. Basch, of the Jolly
Five team, is second with an average
of 187, while' Ross, of the Orpheum
team, and Montgomery, of the Elec
trics, are neck and neck for third
place with an average of 185 each.
The league race is very close with the
Jolly Five team in the lead, the Calu
mets and Klectrics tie for second
place. Barnes has rolled the three
highest games during the season for
a total of 768 pins.
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