18 HARRISBURG'S CLASSIC MEETS, MAY 26 AND JUNE 7-DARCY LOSES IN FIRST ROUND LES DARCY OUT IN FIRST ROUND Governor Whitman Administ ers Solar Plexus Blow to Austrian Fighter Albany, X. Y., March 9.—Les D&rcy, the Australian boxer who was. pre vented by Governor Whitman from appearing In the prize ling In New York State, obtained an audience with the Governor yesterday in an effort to Induce him to change his mind. The lighter came to Albany with Hugh Grant Browne, a boxing bout promoter, and Fred A. Wenck. chair man of the State Athletic Commis sion. Darcy and Browne went imme diately to the executive mansion for the conference. After the conference the Governor' announced he had learned nothing which could induce him to change his position. This, he said, was fully out- ' lined in his statement directing the | State Athletic Commission to prohibit j the Darcy-Dlllon bout. in the statement the Governor said he had been informed that Darcy was a runaway from his own country, that "in disguise and under an alias he left his native land because ho was afraid 1 to tight in the cause for which his! fellow countrymen are sacrificing their j lives," and that "he prefers to give a brutal exhibition at some personal risk for a purse of $30,000." "Darcy told me," the Governor said yesterday, "that he had tried to enlist j about three years ago, but was not i permitted because l.e was too young, ' that he had not tried to enlist recently j and that he became twenty-one years ' of age after he left Australia. What he told me merely confirms my belief that he is in this country evading mil- ; itarv service. He asked permission to participate in at least one bout here so it could be demonstrated that ho would not be a party to a 'brutal ex hibition.' I declined to grant his re quest." In other words Darcy was classed as a quitter. SOMEBODY UEPT M.A.SURE // // / ' JAILOR/ /// I | r •' u" | OUR SUITS DO m SHRINK MA-SUPE. TUB TAILOR £ '., c Ip h H h Q m m I, ■ S3 Ej'bS EJ J D WESTPORT THE CORRECT CUT-A-WAY SHAPE w/j'on foJlars WNITEO SHIRT A COLLAR CO TROY.N.*. For Sale By DIVES, POMEHOY & STEWART, I HARRISKURG, PA. I QUALITY QUALITY HATS TV HATS lf° J XIyATS hUT %Mi.€L 11 feOjjfs QUAI (p (J/ /uTV qu t ai zfiats $$ qIS Spring Styles \uty OUAt Now Showing j^s HA EVER in the history of the Hat in- |\ aTC 1 Il dustry have conditions been as "1M I J W.UAL they are to-day. Money has al- kLITY MATS ways been able to purchase hats in any LAT GIUAL quantity desired—but to-dav it's "a VI iTY HATS matter of how many you are able to IJ a-tc DtlAl obtain. C®i.UMl Diic to our foresight we will bo in a poai- FLITY ! MAT 5 tion to show the greatest line of Hats for • i.t? , Spring wear ever shown in this city. Hats i/A I. J IIA <f quality— not Inferior qualities made to vi i-ry meet a price—the best Hats that can IK- had I T HAT:. ~ HAT 5 POU LTOfJ JS? "* 5 N. Thud * ' FRIDAY EVENING, HAJRHISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 9, 1917. J'tEfPORT V LIGHT j6y Grtmtiand Rice ' I Copyright, 1917, Ly the Tribune Association (New York lYibifne) YOU KNOW HOW IT IS There are days when you play around par—or below — There are days when you can't play a lick, And the 'elofitis you may foozle when well. And make your best scores when you're sick. For there ain't any answer in sight; You never know where you belong; You'll blow when you think you are right. And you'll blow when you know you are wrong. Is the old-fashioned art of training camp writing fading out'.' Not a |scribe yet has discovered a pitcher with a new-fangled curve that breaks : three ways at the sama moment —known as the Triple Prong or the Whirling Dip. CONCERNING CRICKET According to F. C. T., a well known cricket player, most of the spoofincr, joshing or kidding, which cricket receives in this country is due to a lack of knowledge of the finer points cf the game; just as golf was once a leading, denizen of The Spoofery for the same reason. "1 have played." he writes, "with great pleasure and benefit baseball, football, hockey, tennis, golf and 1 •soccer, and at no time have I found among the players of these games the same keen and lasting love of the game as 1 have observed among crlcketer3, i both American and English. It is also my belief that cricket is the mote ! \aricd and scientific, and presents greater possibilities of diverse talents than 1 other games. Cricket is played extensively in this country, contrary to popu- 1 lur belief, and, like golf and baseball, contains a bottomless well of reminis- , cense. I write this in behalf of a great game that has been misunderstood." No sport-loving nation, such as England is, could ever take up a game to such an extent that cricket has been taken up unless the game itself was of j high 4-ank. ANOTHER ANGLE Dear Sir; Several years and as many months ago I came out of the South j Kensington Museum at noon. The day being exceedingly fine, I decided to see what London had to offer in the way of sport. So after getting lunch at.! an A. B. C. 1 Journeyed out to Lord's to witness my first and perhaps last game of cricket. 1 was amused for a time and then bored. The game to me was listless md dull. Since reading "Canuck's" paragraph on "Bomb-throw- | | ing. Baseball and Cricket" I see where my trouble was. Cricket is a form, of preparedness and, being an American, it is no wonder I could not see any thing in the game. SLEEPY STEVE (Goshen). MACK'S HARD LUCK Connie Mack has found it impossible to please. He first developed"a ball 1 club that nobody could beat, and the entire league broke Into a roar, claim ing that he was killing interest in each year's race. He then offered a ball ; club that everybody could beat five days a week, and this, too, failed to please. | Yet there are folks who wonder just why it is that Connie carries that Dantean look of one who is "moody, silent, taciturn and prone to melancholia." He ; has discovered, in his varied career, that apparently you can't please any of the people any of the time. CONNIE AND 1917 Connie has undoubtedly improved his club more than a mere trifle for , ; the 1917 campaign. . But whether sufficient improvement has come to lift the club out of last' j place is something on the side. Last fall Mack's club finished exactly forty ball games back of Wash- I ington, in seventh place. It won forty* less and lost forty more. When a ! ball club finishes forty games back of a club in seventh place the uplifting process will have to be an abnormal affair. Mack might win twenty-flve more j J games this season than he did last year and still finish a very bad last. With Thrasher anil Bodie he hat added a punch to his outfield with Strunk still around, while Bush and Myers form the nucleus of good pitching pos.4- 1 unities. The weak spot at present is where the club was once greatest—arourd j Whe infield. Stuffy Mclnnis remains, but the remainder of the infield cast has j yet to show any first division possibilities. OVERT ACTS IN GOLF I 1. When your opponent holes a 30-foot putt. 2. When your opponent's topped shot jumps a trap or bunker. | 3. Any hole that costs over ten shots. 4. Any player who says, "That's the highest." 5. Failing to replace a divot. In spite of Mr. Willard's demand for only *75,000, the popular yearning] to see him fight seems to be under fair control —thereby showing the abiding I will power of a nation under the supreme test. We wonder what a few of those in the trenches receiving six cents a day think about it all when they read; "Wlllard refuses $60,000 for ten rounds." The smartest man I'll ever know Refused to say, "I told you so." 1 The Cubs may win no pennant this season, but in having Larry Doyle ; | around they achieve an even finer destiny. MAJOR HOLDOUT LIST New York, March 9.—Twenty-one National League players are still hold ing out, according to a list combiled from latest reports. The players and the clubs to which they belong are as , follows: * Brooklyn, Pfeffer, Stengel, Wheat, ] Fitzsimmons; Chicago, Jimmy Archer; j Cincinnati, Wingo, Clark, Toney, Mit- j chell, Ilousch; Pittsburgh, Schmidt,' Fischer, Wagner, Baird, Carey; St. I Louis, Doak, Hornsby; Philadelphia, j Whitted, Stock, Niehoff; Boston, Bill J James. Bits From Sportland The contest between Technical High school and Lewlstown High school, j i scheduled for last night, on the lat j ter's floor, was canceled by the Ivew | lstown management. To-night both the Technical High j varsity and scrub teams will get Into ' action. Th former will meet the Mid j dletown High school five at that I place, and the scrub teams of the I same schools will clash. The girls' varsity five of Central High school left this afternoon for Wllliamsport, where they will play the Williamsport High school girls' Ave to-night. This is a busy week for the York High school quintet. To-night they are scheduled to meet the Reading High school Ave on the Heading floor and to-morrow night will play Leba non High in the "Bologna city." The East End Athletic Association will meet to-night at 1913 Derry street. Officers will be elected and plans for the coming baseball season will be discussed. j The Central (Grammar school teams of Mlddletown and Steelton will clash to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, on the Felton Hall floor. The Independent Junior five was humbled In a game played last night i on the St. Paul floor, by the Olivet Presbyterian Sunday school quintet. The final score was 2 5 to 15. The Harrisburg Olympic five, which 1 on a trip to Pittsburgh, lost to the Pittsburgh Scholastic five on Wednes day night by the score of 3 3 to 16. Pittsburgh will appear here for a re turn game on Wednesday night, March 28. The Enhaut Arrow five would like to arrange games with local teams, i Communicate with Charles Miller, En haut, Pa. The Steele Grammar school five was no match for the Cameron Gram mar school quintet and in a contest played on the Technical High school floor* last night, lost by the score of 21 to 3. Central High school scrubs lost a | hard-fought game to the Harrisburg j Dragons last night on the St. Paul I floor by the score of 3 8 to 20. The Penbrook Recreation Club is i planning a "get together" banquet to j be held in the near future. Strong | addresses will be the feature of the event. The White and Blue teams in the Hick-A-Thrift league cleaned up for j the Red and Orange fives, on the Boyd j Memorial Hall gymnasium floor, the former defeating the Reds by the! score of 20 to 14, and the latter trim- I med the Oranges 17 to 12. The Hassett Gymnastic School girls' five was stopped by the Lebanon Val ley girls' team last night on the lat- 1 ter's floor. The local tossers lost by a 17 to 12 tally. PITTSBURGH ENRODTE SOUTH | Pittsburgh, Pa., March 9. The j first delegation of Pittsburgh Nationals i left here to-day for the club training j camp at Columbus, Ga. The party! was In charge of William Hlnchmun and will be Joined enroute by Manager Callahan and other players. Hans Wagner, who has not yet signed a con-! tract, was not in the party and Barney | Dreyfuss. club president, could give I no information as to when Warner l would leave or whether he would co | to the training camp at all. " g Strollers Take Two Games From Reading Bowlers Casino Duckplii League (Casino Alleys) Strollers 1376 Headings 1346 Strollers 500 Smith (Strollers) 136 Smith (Strollers) 361 Strollers 1533 Headings . .... 1260 Strollers 548 Snwth (Strollers) 159 Smith (Strollers) 367 Standing of tlic Teams W. 1,. Pet. | Ma.iestics 39 12 .765 Strollers 30 18 .625 Pennsys 27 24 .521 Nobles 23 28 .451 Headings 17 34 .333 Audion 14 34 .292 Boyd Memorial League (Boyd Alleys) Hiek-A-Thrifts 2156 Independents 2018 Hlck-A-Thrifts 782 ' Ellis (Hiek-A-Thrifts) 206 I Ellis (Hick-A-Thrifts) 497 I*. It. H. Y. M. C. A. League (Association Alleys Passengers 2586 Lucknow 2558 Passengers 1004 Grubb (Passengers) 212 Hostetter (Bucknow) 570 j Miscellaneous (Intercity Series, Parthemorc Alleys, ' New Cumberland) New Cumberland 1574 : Academy 1392! New Cumberland 595 Myers (New Cumberland) .... 138 \ Myers (New Cumberland) .... 370 1 (Lemoyne Alleys) Lemoyne 1447: Academy 1415 I Lemoyne 514 Sbahf (Lemoyne) 12 4 Chrismer (Academy) 335 SI FFR AGIST KXDS CAM PA If; N : Mexico City, March 9. Senora! Hermllia Galindo, the woman suffrage I party's candidate for Congress, wound J up her campaign lijst night at an en thusiastic mass meeting which was at- j tended by fully 3,000 people. To-morrow * s ast OF THE HUB'S Great Re-Organization Sale To-morrow marks the close of Harrisburg's Greatest Clothing bargain event. Never before was merchandise of such a high character as The Hub stocks, offered at such money saving prices. The stocks are not as heavy as when the sale opened as is to be expected, but there are many remarkable opportunities to save here. The entire stocks have been re arranged and regrouped so £s to make the final day's selling just as attractive as the first. Make it a point to get here to-morrow for such Men's and Boys' Clothing, Furnishings, Hats and Caps will never be offered at such prices as these. The Hub's Men's Suits Hub's Men's Overcoats At Last Day Sale Prices At Last Day Sale Prices GROUP NO. 1 GROUP NO. 1 Men's and Young Men's sls, <fcQ 7E Men's and Young Men's <fcQ 7C sl7, S2O & $25 Overcoats are . 3 sls, sl7 and S2O Overcoats are GROUP NO. 2 GROUP NO. 2 Men's and Young Men's 19 7C Men's and Young Men's $1 O 7CJ sl7, S2O and $25 Suits are. .*P $lB and $22.50 Overcoats are "• ■ GROUP NO. 3 GROUP NO. 3 Men's and Young Men's <£l/1 7C Men's and Young Men's •d1/? 7C $lB, S2O and $25 Suits are. .*P *• ® S2O and $25 Overcoats are .. t GROUP NO. 4 GROUP NO. 4 Men's and Young Men's d>lC JC Men's and Young Men's <fc 1Q 7C $22.50, $25 and S3O Suits are *P S3O and $35 Overcoats are . . T Last call on Full Dress and Jj £\ Final Clean-up of all odd Trou- QC Tuxedo Suits—only 12 Suits in 9V. f 3 $1 c Oj the lot—regularly worth $25, S3O y j ft - sers ' re S ularl y $ 2 - /;> and and s3s—special', at $3.00; special, at Boys' Suits & Overcoats Last Day Sale Prices Will in y p i, 1/ n . Make These Furnishings Go /mil 1 0 >JIO jf\l * riCe Special lot of Boys' Caps, worth to SI.OO, are 10<: Men's and Boys' Caps, regularly 50c and 75c, are 33£ Boys' $5.00 Suits go at $2.50 Men's SI.OO and $1.25 Shirts are now 67^ _ _ . Men's 50c and 65c Silk Neckwear 350 Boys v 7.50 Suits go at s.>.< > Men's $1.15 Flannel Shirts are now 75# Bovs' SIO.OO Suits go at $5.00 Men ' s $5 0 ° Shaker Knit and Rope Weavc Sw " te " * ■ are iM.45 Boys' $5.00 Mackinaws and Overcoats, $2.50 Men , s 50c Ribbed and Men * s 85c Hickory Boys' $7.50 Mackinaws and Overcoats, $3.75 Flccce Lined Shirts and Stri P ed and White Over- —— Drawers. Special Q alls. Special £+ O Boys' $8.50 Mackinaws and Overcoats, $4.25 at O/ C at OuC Special Note—The Hub Will Be Continued Messrs. Joseph Nachman and Simon Hirsh have taken over all other interests heretofore connected with THE HUB and will continue the businesses THE HUB, as sole owners and proprietors. New stocks have been purchased and will be shown next faeek. New methods will be adopted and a new adver tising policy of using small space and- small type and giving YOU the benefit of the difference in cost in better merchandise and better service. rriW¥¥7l- Iff TTfe 320 Market St., ltl£i 11UO Harrisburg TRACK MEET DATE ! SET FOR MAY 29 j . ' j Island Track Will Be Improv ed and Seating Capacity Increased I PROF. C. B. FAGER, JH. Saturday, May 26, was the date set for the annual High school athletic meet, at a meeting of members of the j Harrisburg Track Athletic Commit | tee last night ifi the office of the City j Park Commissioner. The date for the ' annual grammar school meet Is j Thursday, June 7. Both events will | be held on the island track. [ These dates are later than in pre jvious years, but were selected so as CORNER Unless the thousands of light fans in New York State can convince Gov ernor Charles S. Whitman that he is wrong, ring battles will end in Now York January 1, 1918. That the sport of boxing has degenerated io u. disgraceful plane is the belief of Gov ernor Whitman, and he must be shown In a convincing manner that this sport can be made clean. On Monday night the Motive Power Athletic Association Athletes will en tertain their friends. These sport boosters have a way all their own in providing an entertainment and an interesting program is promised. Detailed plans for the construc tion of a $290,000 stadium at Brown University have been completed, it will embrace twenty acres, and with the athletic field will accommodate all branches of sport at the university for many years to conic. Plans for an intercollegiate trap shoot will be completed "soon. It is intended not only to include Cor nell, but also Penn State and Williams, which are not members of (he inter collegiate Trap Shooting Association. Within the last few years trap shooting has become established at not to conflict with other big lvigh school meets. A big track and field meet will bo held at Pittsburgh, <>n May 19, and another will be held""" - / Lehigh University on April 2. Will Add Javelin Throw For the first time in history the Javelin throw will be one of tho events, although no points will be given for It. Special prizes will bo avvurded Instead. Tho Javelin throw Is one of the old Grecian sports and Is decidedly Interesting. It Is vir tually an experiment in high school meets und has only been a part of college meets for several years. Plana for both events were thor oughly discussed and committees ap pointed to tako care of the various phases of the work. The metals will many schools and colleges as a, recog nized competitive sport, with inter class, intercollegiate and champion ship shoots between carefully coached teams. Dartmouth, Harvard. Princeton and . Yale were the tlrst colleges to organ- K, izc- shooting clubs, soon to be followed by Cornell, Penn State, Penn and Wil liams. The sport had a remarkable growth in practically every place where it has been established. A new Intercollegiate Trap Shoot ing Association has been formed "for the regulation of intercollegiate trap shooting competition and increasing interest in trap shooting as a col lege sport." The college now en rolled are Cornell, Dartmouth, Har vard, Princeton and Yale. Giving city amateur league player* a chance to show ability is a gooit move on the part of Manager "Ike" McCord of the local Independents. There is lots of good material and tho boys ought to have a chance to show their speed against big league fel lows. No City League games were played last night. Tech gymnasium floor was engaged. These games will be played off before the close of the season. be of the same style as last season. V. Grant Forrer, assistant superintendent of parks and playgrounds, stated that the park board would erect bleachers that will accommodate at least 1.500. Other track improvements will by track, made necessary by he erec made. Included in which will be tho rearrangement of the sixth of a mile ion of the new bridge. If possible tho length of the track will bo increased to a quarter mile and if this is not possible the 220-yard straight-awuy will be rearranged. The old officers were re-elected. Professor C. B .Fager, Jr., principal of Technical High school, will head tho committee; H. W. Cox is the treasurer, and G. W. Hill is secretary. Elmer Kirkpatrlclc and E. C. Lutz were elect ed members of the committee.
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