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BOYD MEMORIAL BOWLERS MAKING HIGH SCORES-IN THE PLAYHOUSES-SPORTS
BOYD MEMORIAL
BOWLERS BATTLE
FOR SUPREMACY
Ipt M l
BENJAMIN* COCKLIN
Bowling has been one of the most J
prominent activities at the Boyd Me
morial Hall this season and a great
deal of interest has been shown.
Competition ia close and some fine
averages have been made by the
players and teams.
John Santo, of the Hick-A-Thrift
team, is leading in individual scoring, >
■with an average of 156. He is hard j
pressed, however, by Irwin, one of his
own teammates; Myers, McCormicks;
Blessing, McCormicks, and Miller, In
dependents, all of whom have an av
erage of 154. McCormick, McCor
micks, and Hartwick of the same
team, are next with an average of
153. The players are all closely
bunched.
Hard Fight for First Place
The Hick-A-Thrifts and the Mc-
Cormicks are lighting hard for fiist
place in the league race, while the
Palmer team is in third place.
B. Cocklin holds honors In the
highest one game score with a total ;
of 217 pins. He also holds honors in
the highest three game score, with a
total of SSS pins. The Palmer team
takes the credit of rolling the high
est three game team score, with a
total of 2351 pins and the Hick-A-I
Thrift team rolled the highest one
game team score, with 844 pins.
Individual Averages
The averages of the players fol
low:
Santo, Hick-A-Thrift, 156; Irwin, !
Hick-A-Thrift, 154: Myers, McCor-'
micks. 154; Blessing, McCormicks,
154; Miller. Independents. 154; Hart-'
■wick, McCormicks. 153: McCormick,
McCormicks, 153; Felker, Hick-A-
Thrift, 151; Miller. Excelsior. 151;
Welsh. Hick-A-Thrift. 150; Criswell,
Hick-A-Thrift, 150; Low, Palmer,
149; Lusman, McCormicks, 14S; Tay
lor, McCormicks, 148; Ruhwine, ;
Hick-A-Thrift, 148; Simonnetti, Ex- i
celsior, 14S; Hepford, Excelsior. 148;'
Ellis, Hick-A-Thrift, 146; Haeen, i
Boyd, 145; B. Cocklin, Palmer, 145.
Cook, Bull, 144; Downie. Dull, 143; I
Saul, Bethany, 143; C. Cocklin,
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THURSDAY EVENING, HAJRRISBT7RG UMfcft) TELEGRAPH MARCH 8, 1917.
JOHN SANTO
Palmer. 142; Sites, Dull, 139; Ellis.
Dull, 138;'Kertz, Palmer, 137; Sleker,
Dull, 137; King. Boyd, 13 3; Kulp,
Boyd, 133; Lambert, Dull, 133;
Palmer, Palmer, 132.
Ritter, Dull, 129; Mack, McCor
mick, 129; Warden, Boyd, 129; Lem
mentrout. Independents, 129; Dun
moyer, Independents, 129; Frank, In
dependents, 127: Dounie, Dull, 127;
Grove, Dull, 127; Thompson. Inde
pendents, 126: German, . Independ
ents, 126; Simons, Palmer. 125;
Schabauer, Excelsior. 125; Fitzgerald.
Excelsior, 123; Boyd, Independents,
123; Brickley, Hick-A-Thrift, 122;
Whiteman, Hick-A-Thrift, 121; Ken
ney, Bovd, 121; Bowermaster, Beth
any, 119; Romick, McCormick, 119;
S. Lego, Bethany, 118.
G. Lego, Bethany, 117; Brink, Mc-
Cormick, 117; Miller, Boyd, 117;
Galtshall, Dull, 115; Rolland. Boyd,
114: Frank, Bethany. 114; Williams,
Independents, 113; Whitman, Beth
any. 113; Rummoyer, Bethany, 113;
Weibner, Dull, 113; Linger, Boyd,
110: Robinson. Bethany, 109; Hiney.
Bethany, 109; Kirkpatrick. Boyd.
109; ShaefTer. Bethany. 108; Ber
nizer, Bethany, 105; Clemens, Excel
sior, 101.
Crego, Boyd, 100: Black. Independ
ents, 99; Gray. Excelsior, 91; Garrett,
Excelsior. 89: Hamaker, Bethany, S9:
Lebo, Boyd. 86: Gohn, Excelsior, S2;
Spencer. Dull. 81.
STANDING OF THE TEAMS
Team. Won. Lost. Ave.
Hick-A-Thrift 19 5 .791
McCormick 21 6 .777
Palmer 20 7 .740
Independents 14 13 .518
Boyd 9 18 .383
Excelsior 7 20 .296
Bethany 6 21 .222
Dull 4 20 .IC6
High three game score—B. Cock
lin. 558.
High three game team score—
Palmer, 2351.
Hieh one srame team score—Hick-
A-Thrift. 84 4.
High one game score—B. Cocklin,
Tech High Tossers to Play
Lewistown School Tonight
Technical High School's basketball
squad will journey to Lewistown this
evening, where they will oppose the
High School team of that place. It
will be the second trip of the Maroon
team in as many years. Last season
Tech won a close contest.
Coach Miller will send the same into
the game that was victorious at Steel
ton Friday night. To-morrow even
ing Tech will go down to Middletown,
where it will play the return game
with the lower-enders. In the first
contest played before Christmas in the
Tech gymnasium, the local lads were
victorious by a 25 to 24 tally. The
line-up for the game to-night Is as
follows:
Tech Lewistown
Harris, f. Geriek, f.
Llngle, f. Snyder, f.
Wilsbach, c. Siglin. c.
Beck, g. Johnson, g.
Pollock, g. Wagner, g.
OAMUSE]^jMENTs||j;
ORPHEUM—Friday and Saturday and
Saturday matinee. March 9 ana 10—
"Very Good Eddie."
Monday, night only, March 12—Anna
Held in "Follow Me."
Tuesday and Wednesday, with daily
matinees, March 13 and 14—"When
a Girl Loves."
Friday, night only, March 16 The
Messrs. s>liubert present "Alone at
Last."
MAJ KSTlC—Vaudeville.
COLONIAL—"The Sunbeam."
REGENT—"Great Expectations." .
Elizabeth Marbury and F. Ray Corn
stock have followeu their lirst venture
into the field of smart musi
"Very cal comedy, "Nobody Home,"
Uood with a new offering entitled
t£<ldle" "Very Good Eddie," which
ran an entire year at the
Princess Theater, New York, and which
will play its return engagement in this
city at the Orpheum Theater to-mor
row and Saturaay nights and Saturday
matinee. There are several cooks
concerned in this musical broth, but
they cannot and do not spoil it, for they
are all too good at the job. There is
at the foundation of "Very Good Eddie"
such a good idea as that of the two
young married couples separated on the
Hudson river boat, which is just as ef
fective set to music and interrupted
with lyrics as it ever was as mere
drama.
"When a Girl Loves" will be the at
traction at the Orpheum next Tuesday
and Wednesday. with
••When a daily matinees. The
Girl Love*" play is said to be a very
interesting one. as the
title would denote, and will be enjoyed
to the fullest. There is much pathos
and humor throughout the play, and
melodrama to spare, with villains,
heroes and heroines galore.
The new bill of vaudeville booked for
the Majestic the last half of this week
is headed by the Princeton
At the Five, a quintet of men in an
Majestic excellent musical offering
consisting of both instru
mental and vocal numbers. A liberal
supply of comedy is injected by a
blackface comedian, while the program
of musical numbers has been very
carefully selected. Another attraction
of interest on the bill is the appear
ance of Hugh Herbert, who will be re
membered for his excellent character
acting in the "Sons of Solomon." and a
competent supporting company' in a
new comedy-dramatic sketch entitled
"Prediction.'' Completing the vaude
ville list are: Helen Davis, clever sing
ing comedienne: Beatrice McKenzie and
Company, in a novel singing and whist
ling act, and Peggy Bremen and
Brother, introducing some excellent
ladder balancing t'eats.
A love story that lingers in the
heart is "The Sunbeam," the delight
ful Metro play,
Mabel Taliaferro featuring Mabel
at the Colonial Taliaferro, showing
at the Colonial
Theater to-day only. The story deals
with a girl who, because of her won
derful sweet and generous nature,
sheds happiness and sunshine on all
with whom she comes in contact. Her
influence over a New York gangster re
forms him into an upright man. whom
she later marries. "Wife In Sunshine,"
a complete two-part story from the
series "Is Marriage Sacred." will be the
added attraction of the program. Fri
day and Saturday, Thos. H. Ince will
present William S. Hart in another
great characterization in "The Gun
fib'hter." a gripping story of the West,
in which the love of a pure and inno
cent girl brings to the surface the bet
ter side of a bad man's nature. Fri
day, one day only, Francis X. Bushman
and Beverly Bayne will be on the same
program in the fifth episode of "The
Great Secret." called "The Trap." Com
ing soon. Norma Talmadge in "Pan
thea."
ADD AMUSEMENTS
Having wooed .Louise Huff and lost
her in "seventeen." Jack Pickford tries
his hand at courtship
"Great again under the tutel-
Expectations" age of Charles Dickens
at Regent in the Famous Players
adaptation of the great
novelist's "Great Expectations," shown
at the Begent for the last time to-day.
Miss Huff is a charming Estella, the lit
tle girl who lives with Miss Havisham,
one of the queerest of Dickens' many
peculiar characters, a woman, who,
through an ufortunate love affair in
her youth, deliberatly encourages young
Pip to fall in love with Estella, her
ward, only with the purpose of break
ing his heart for a sort of revenge.
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MARGERY WILSON
Who will be remembered for the part
of "Brown Eyes," in "Intolerance," will
be seen in support of William S. Hart
in "The Gunflghter," at the Colonial to
morrow and Saturday.
Your eyes are worthy of the best
attention yon can give them. Bel
singer glasses can be bad as low
205 LOCUST ST.
Optometrists
Opp. Orphctun Theater
Eyes Examined No Drops
WESTERN STARS
LEADERS IN TENNIS
Los Angeles. March S.—Three match
es. which promise to be among the most
interesting of the contests, are set for
to-day, the second day o fthe East vs.
West tennis tournament.
Willis E. Davis, of San Francisco,
national clay court champion, repre
senting the West, is to oppose Conrad
B. Doyle, runner up In the national
clay court championsnip and champion
of the District of Columbia, in the
opening match, a singles event.
The final event of the day is to be
A
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ANNA HELD
Vho will appear at the Orpheum next Monday evening at the head of her ow
•ompany in a three-act musical corned y, "Follow Me."
DOUBLE ELECTION
BOARD IDEA IS
GAINING SUPPORT
One Counts Ballots While the
Other Sees That They Are
Properly Handled
By Associated Press
New York, March S.—lndications that
one of the greatest obstacles to the
prompt announcement of election re- j
suits, such as handicapped the news-1
papers in the last presidential election,
may be removed befohe another presi
dential year, are reflected in the action
of the West Virginia Legislature, fol
lowing the example set by Kansas, in
the creation of what is called "A Dou
ble Election Board."
The measure is hailed by West Vir- ,
ginia newspapers as one that will be ]
appreciated by the general public to a j
greater extent than is realized by those i
not familiar with the present encum- [
brances which surround ballot-count- !
ing. They declare that the success of ;
the experiment in Kansas last fall
should attract attention in other states
as a possible relief from such uncer- j
tainty as the whole country labored \
under for several days after the last '
election.
Kansas, considering its difference in
time, as compared with the Kastern
states, was the first of all states to be
gin to return figuress on its election
last November 7. This was a surprise
generally to other states until it was
discovered that the secret of Kansas
promptness was a system known as the
Double Election Board.
Not It evolutionary
This system does not in any sense
revolutionize present methods of vot
ing, but simply makes it possible that
the ballots may be counted almost
simultaneously with the casting ot
them, with the result that the vote is
known immediately upon the closing of
the polls.
The Kansas law provides that at all
general elections the national and state
tickets shall be printed upon one bal
lot, and the district, county an! town
ship tickets shall be printed upon an
other ballot, and that at each voting
precinct five separate ballot boxes shall
be provided, two boxes in duplicate for
the national and state ballots, and that
there shall be two boards of election
officers, one to be known as the re
ceiving board—to receive ballots anil
guard their proper placement In the
axe*—and the other to be a counting
board.
A few hours after the opening of the
polls the national and state ballot box
es are removed from their designated
places and duplicate boxes placed in
their stead, while the counting board
retires under" proper safeguards,
empties the first set of boxes and
counts the ballots. After another In
terval the boxes are exchanged again,
and the counting proceeds In the man
ner of simple relay throughout the day.
The old method, wnlch still obtains
in all the states except Kansas and
West Virginia, requires the casting of
the ballot before any counting la done,
and this involves In some places from
six to forty-eight hours, delaying a
still greater time the compilation of a
state or national vote.
Old Method Slow
The act of the West Virginia Legis
lature In following the Kansas exam
ple is called the Wier bill, after James
W. Wier. a newspaperman who is a
member of the West Virginia Legisla
ture and who deemed that some of the
clerical and mechanical handicaps <•
election reporting belonged to the days
when folks depended upon the stage
coach mail for their news, instead of
the present era of the telephone and
wireless telegraph. In West Virginia,
for example, at the last election It was
a week before it was known positively
how the state had gone, and It was
six weeks before the exact figures were
compiled anl published.
What little opposition was met with
I a doubles match .between George M.
| Church, Orient and Metropolitan cham
j pion, and Harold Throckmorton, nation
!al junior champion, representing the
i East, and William M. Johnston, Pacific
! coast champion, and former national
! singles champion, and John S. Strachan,
I California State champion, representing
i the West.
| The Westerners gained the advantage
J in the first day's play through the vic
' tory yesterday in the men's doubles
match.
in Virginia in suggesting adoption of
the Kansas method was to the effect
that the double election board involved
additional expense, but in the argu
ment of the author of the bill. It is
as inexpensive to work two sets of men
one day as it is to work one set of
men for two days.
Ohio. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
several of the Middle and Western
States have for many years been par
ticularly slow In completing their re
turns, and it is such conditions that
have handicapped The Associated Press
in announcing the definite results of
presidential elections on the night of
election day. The seriousness of such
delays as were encountered last No
vember, when various newspapers an
nounced the result before It was
known, has impressed itself upon Gov
ernor Cox, of Ohio. In an address be
fore the members of The Associated
Dailies at Columbus recently the Gov
ernor suggested an adoption of a law
similar to that of Knnsas so that the
general result might be known early in
the evening of election day, instead of,
as he said, "about Christmas time."
Judge Threatens to
Pummel Wife Beater
Milwaukee, Wis.. March B.—"lf you
want exercise, you can get it with
me back of the city hall. I won't stand
for men who beat women. If I hear
of you beating this woman again,
you'll have me to trim."
This was the "deft" that Judge
Blenski, sitting for Judge Page in dis
trict court, hurled at J. H. Terres, ar
rested on a charge of beating his wife
and child.
AMUSEMENTS
f \
New Bill To-day With—
PRINCETON FIVE
HUGH HERBERT & CO.
BEATRICE McKENZIE &
CO.
HELEN DAVIS.
PEGGY BENNAN & BRO.
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Royal Theater
Showing To-day
A Brady-Made Feature in five
parts,
"Tin-: WORLD IS AGAINST HIM"
featuring
E. K. LINCOLN and
JUNE ELVIDGE
v J
National Theater
Showing To-day
A Fox Feature in Five Ports
"The Mischief Maker"
featuring
JUNE CAPRICE
COLD WEATHER
DAMAGES CROPS
Recent Freezing Makes Re
planting of Gardens Necessary
in Many Districts
Washington, I). C., March B.—The
damage done to garden crops by the
recent widespread freeze has made it
necessary for many owners cither to
replant gardens or to delay planting j
beyond the usual time. These garden- j
ers whose outdoor schedules have been |
upset are under thenecessity of doing
everything they can to hasten their
crops. The following suggestions re
garding the principles and practice
of gardening, the horticultural spe
cialists of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture believe, will be |
timely and helpful both to these gard- j
eners and to others in localities where
the planting season naturally Is later.
The gardener who merely wishes
to raise vegetables for his own family
will do well, especially this year, to
choose thecrops he will grow from
those which previously have done best
in his special locality. The market
gardener must bear this fact in mind,
but also must study the market and
anticipate its usual demand and de
termine as far as he can how this de
mand will bo affected by any unto
ward weather conditions which may
have occurred in his section.
IXsciitials of Gardening
The essentials for successful gard
ening on osmall or large scale are soil,
water and cultivation. Much depends i
also on the grower, theseason, and the '
crops selected.
The soil is the storehouse of lant
food. The garden, therefore, should
contain humus or rotted material in
large quantities. The gardener should
remember that about 50 per cent, of
ordinary earth is not soil at all, but
consists of air and water.
Imixtruuice of Seed lied
The conservation of soil moisture is
the most important reason for culti
vating crops. The two other principal
things accomplished by cultivation
are the killing of weeds which draw
moisture and plant food from the
crops, and the aeration of the soil.
Too much stress cannot belaid on
the preparation of a good seed bed. A
seed bed of fine tilth—made so by
deep plowing, careful harrowing, and
lining of the soil—is the foundation
of good gardening. It is essential for
the proper germination and growth of
young plants. The soil must be friable
and free from clods. A clod can hold
I no plant food in solution, the only
form in which itis available for the
plant. Good soil and line tilth insure
an excellent root system to plants.
The plant food for the garden,
I should be carefully selected. Nitrogen,
' which stimulates leaf growth, is best
; supplied by turning under rich, well
\ rotted or composted manure, or rot
-1 ting vegetable matter. Nitrogen also
j is supplied in such fertilizers as ni
trate of soda and sulphate of ammo
! nia, as well as in bonemeal and tank
| age.
Potash tends to hasten the matur-
I ltjr of the plant, butalso hasa tendency
I to counteract thework of nitrogen. On
' this account those not experienced in
I using potash will find sulphate of pot-
I ash better, or at least safer in most
j cases, than the muriate. On account of
the disturbed coihmercial conditions
one of the most available sources of
potash is hard-wood ashes.
AMI'SEMKXTS
\
Regent Theater
Last Bay
"Great Expectations"
An Adaptation of Charles Ilickens'
well-known novel of tills name
featuring
Louise Huff and
Jack Pickford
Adtlcd Attraction—Somewhere in
Any Place, and
'•Tramp—Tramp—Tramp"
To-morrow and Saturday
Jesse IJ. Ijisky I'resents
America's Great Photoplay Fa
vorite,
Blanche Sweet
111 a tense, original photoplay,
"The Evil Eye"
Added Attraction Friday—"A Jack
Tar in the Making, and
"Bench Birds"
Admission, Adults 10c, children 5c
ORPHEUM- EinHCipH
TO-MORROW and SAiURDAY
psafMßß
SATURDAY 11%*19W
ZSG TO SI.OO
\ | 3 I The Smartest and Brightest
H of All Musical Comedies.
Just Laughs—Jolly Tunes—Pretty Girls
SKATS NOW.
Tuesday & Wednesday, Mar. 13-14
"•iS?"- ALU SEATS 25c
HAMILTON CO I. EM AN
Pi**rnl
THE COMEDY DRAMA SENSATION
WHEN A
GIRL LOVES
By HARIIY COLEMAN
A Story of Human Ileartn
INIOMTSs 15, 25, 50, 75 SATURDAY
ESTABLISH COURSE
IN MT. FARMING
Kentucky College Adds New
Course to Its Curri
culum
Berea, Ivy., March B.—ln view of
tho food shortage throughout the
country Bcrea College, in the great
mountain region of the South, is ma
king a special effort to develop the
surrounding mountain land. Berea's
chief endeavor is being made through
a two-year course in mountain agri
culture, the graduates of which arc
proving the best "farm demonstrat
ors" in government service.
The educational work which Berea
is doing along this line is probably
unique among college activities. Ac
cording to President Frost the region
is not naturally one to be thought of
for great supplies. He says, "Perhaps
not more than one-fourth of its area
can ever be plowed. But as a source
of food, the region must be cultivated.
It is the man who has poor land who
needs agricultural instruction most."
President Frost states that some of
the cities of Kentucky and North
Carolina most influenced by Berea are
already sttowing decided progress
along these lines.
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AMt'SKMKNTS
ORPHEUM'
TO=n A V MVTI>KE
I I AM) NIG HI
Km 1 Talbot \iiiii.senient Co.
offer*
THE LID LIFTERS
HARRY LANG
Added Attraction
QUA EXTAL
NEXT ♦irent Cunt I
MONDAY s " v,n
1 Louise Mink
Buy Spats Edith liny
to-morrow
rri. j Syke® Sisters
rue Only Anna '
George
II PI f\ Lydecker
II r I I) ch " r "
** JL4 U mJ MoXnuithlon
tn j I*. Paul I'oreasl
"FOLLOW ME" Bentley
I Co. of 00 Includes i Seahury
| HENRY LEWIS I and Show
V — J
kSLiIUiIMJ
TO-DAY OXLV
MABEL TALIAFERRO
In a METIIO nondcr plnr
; "The Sunbeam"
A story of love and Impplness
Added Attraction
"Wife in Sunshine"
A two-part story from the aerleiv
"Is Marriage Sacred"
Friday and Saturday
WM. S. HART
IN
In a powerful Western play
"The Gun Fighter"
The story of a liudman Mho n
reformed.
Added Attraction
I--KillA \ IIM 1
Fifth episode, "THE THAP"