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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.
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J'tEfPORT
V LIGHT
j6y Grtmtiand Rice
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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.
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TRACK MEET DATE
! SET FOR MAY 29
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j Island Track Will Be Improv
ed and Seating Capacity
Increased
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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.