14 BIG LEAGUES ARE READY FOR OPENING TOMORROW-EXPECT GOOD SEASON TRAPSHOOTERS TO HAVE FIVE EVENTS New League Plans Interesting Matches; Ten New Teams; Elect Officers Harrisburg, West Fairvlew, Lancas ter and York will be represented In the newly-organized "Pour City" Trap shooting League. J. P. "Brenneman, president of the Lancaster Gun Club, and well known as a sportsman in all sections of the State, has been elected president of the organization; Ber nard Elsesser, York, secretary, and H. B. Shoop, Harrisburg, treasurer. The board of directors includes: W. H. Cleekner, Harrisburg: F. Hawbaker, West Fairvlew; John 11. Kerr, Lancas ter, and Bernard Elsesser, York. The forming of the league has been under consideration for some time and the plan was suggested by Lloyd Lew -Is, a well-known trapshooter of Phil adelphia. No definite schedule has been arranged, but the officials of the league are expected to hold a meeting some time next week for this purpose. Five-Shoot Srhrilulf The schedule will no doubt consist of five shoots, one in each of the four places represented in the league, the fifth to be a grand shoot, likely to be held on the grounds of the, club winning the majority of the events. It is likely that the first shoot will be held early In June and others in July, August and September. A ten-man team will represent each of the clubs and the contestants will shoot at 100 targets. Trophies for the shoats will be supplied by each of the four clubs represented, and an appli cation has been made to the Inter- State Association to furnish a trophy for the final event. The clubs to be represented are the Harrisburg Sportsmen's Association, of Harrisburg; the West Fairview Sportsmen's Association, of West Fairview; the York Card Gun Club, ot York, and the Lancaster Hod and Gun Club, of Lancaster. W. H. Cleekner, secretary of the local association, play ed a prominent part in effecting the organization of the league. . 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On Wednesday of the present or fiscal week a new set of box scores will be raised to indicate the appearance of another big league campaign. 1 By this date the advance has been spread before you In layers several feet thick, yet there is always room for another observation or so before the door is shut and the first blows are struck. Tlie Shift 1 Just a year at this date we figured two clubs as pennant favorites. They were the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Braves. One came through and the other, after a bad start, came within two or three games of arriving in the 1 borders of the Promised Land. For 1917 there will be a brief shift in the dope. The flag favorite in the National League is bound to be New York. You can't get away from this pick, unless you are taking a flyer on the bare chance of calling an upset. The Giants are by 110 means certain winners. There is no such entry in this rickety pastime. But of the eight clubs they have all the best of it when it comes to a matter of form, figures and advance guessing. Tour Clubs In the National League there are only four clubs with a chance. These all belong to the East. The West has skidded badly ever since the old Cub ma chine went to seed seven years ago. And the West has no club in sight with a chance to finish 1, 2, 3 if there is 1, per cent, of anything in the April statis tics. It is all New York against Boston, Brooklyn and Philadelphia, and only fine pitching will give any of these clubs a tlrst class show. Boston, Brooklyn and Philadelphia are about as well matched as any three clubs you will find. They finished under a pocket handkerchief last October, and they will not be very far apart six months from now. All three are well managed clubs, and we happen to know that at least one of the three is con fident of nosing out the Giants—not with any of that early April fake confi dence for publication, but a sincere belief that the Giants are overrated, that they lack pennant pitching and that they won't win. Another Scalp Lifter In the American League it is mostly a matter of how far success has eaten in the Boston Red Sox. In the last two years they have won (wo pennants and two world's series. Triumphs of this type are usually undermining in their effect. There is no great incentive in running after a street car that you have already caught. Success and fame are no longer lures for the Red Sox. Victory is now an old story. It may be the Red Sox have one more great year left. They are a great ball club at their best, a better club than, they have been given credit for. They have the pitching and the punch, the experience and the grit to keep on going. But they are up against the keenest competition this season any ball club has known for a decade. For they have at least five husky competitors around with a war club in either mitt, only looking for a chance to swing. Tlie A. L. Jubilee This American League jubilee should be a wonder this summer. Last season (unwonted injuries and accidents to New York and Cleveland players and a ! slow, groggy start by St. Louis prevented a six-club finish throughout the ! stretch. j Of the six teams with a good chance, you can. figure two out in advance j through an unusual amount of bad luck. But it would not be surprising to i have all sis still in the race around late July or early August. Beyond Dope This A. L. affair is a race that no man can dope. It is well beyond the vital and succulent statistic. There are the three old favorites. Boston, Detroit and Chicago, sure to be up there exchanging wallops to a finish. And then there are the Yanks. This club was three and one-half games to I the good last July when Baker, Cullop and Gilhooley, three stars, were injured, i They were three and one-half games to the good despite the fact that Ray | Caldwell, the star pitcher of other years, had not been able to contribute his part. S Now this club has known a season's play together, is far better balanced in general team work and is absolutely confident of success. The New Y'ork Yankees are a better ball club than, you figure them to be. They have about everything a line club needs, good catching, good pitching, defensive speed and the punch. This Baker-Pipp combination is one of the most dangerous in the game. The wallop is there in other parts to go out and get runs. And the pitching is better than any other in the league with the possible exception of Boston. The Yankees undoubtedly deserve a place in the dope on' even terms with the Red Sox, Tigers and White Sox. They are bound to get fine pitching all the year, and fine pitching means a fine club where the rest of the cast is of average mould. The Season Ahead ' If the Braves, Dodgers and Phillies are able to keep the Giants in check, the National League race will be above the average. But this proposition j calls for a lusty young "if." ' There is no "if" attached to the American League wing. This race is going to be one of the best any league has ever known, for if one or two break and j begin to skid there will be at least four clubs left to carry out the Thrill- I Shooting process down the dusty September stretch. You may recall the strength of Boston, Detroit and Chicago from last year. 'They have not been weakened. And you can gamble that New York, Cleveland | and St. LouiS have been improved in several ways and that all three will be j better machines. Bits From Sportland The Casino Tenpin League is sched i uled to close to-morrow night and j Barnes, of the Calumet team, who has ; lead the league from the start has I virtually clinched individual high scor ! ing honors. He has participated in 72 j games and has rolled on an average of 194 points per game, four points more t than his nearest competitor, who is ! Baach, of the Jolly Five team. 1 The West End Athletic Club Base ; ball team will ofaen Its season to-mor ! row afternoon when thirteen members of the squad will go to Mercersburg to play the academy nine. The players j who will take the trip are Knight, j Winters, Miller, Waltz, Walters. Eisen berger, Huber, Kline, Dell, Hocker, I McKeever, McCurdy and Keagel. The Ridge Avenue Junior Basket ! ball team brought its season to a close yesterday afternoon with a victory I over the Boas grammar school five. ( The final score was 49 to 17. Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. Adv. 'SOMEBODY LIED! j OUR SCHOOL "TEACHES TC>U CARTOONING IN A WEEK-NO TROUBLE: TO GET A JOB [IDEA BY E.B. 1714, (tfEEN sr. rj IYrone-iV*. "ARROW form'fit COLLAR 1 ' a fbrSO' CLUETT, FEABOQnr&Ca 4/Vfc MAKEEJ PLAN SKItIKS FOII NEXT YEAR Indianapolis, April 10". Secretary John B. Foster, of the Giants, announc ed yesterday ihat a spring series of twelve games will be played next year between the New York and Detroit clubs. This announcement sets at rest the rumor that because of the Cobb- Herzog unpleasantness the Chicago White Sox would replace the Tigers as opponents tor #he Giants next spring. The 1918 Detroit-Giant spring tour will probably begin in New Orleans the end of March and wind up in New ark, N. J. The team will come north along the Atlantic coast. This means the abandohment of the proposed Giant trip to California. STALLINGS FAVORS DRILLS , Boston, April 10.—The members of the Boston National Baseball team will be trained as bomb throwers and to shoot straight. George T. Stallings, manager of the club announced when the team arrived here from the spring exhibition tour Sunday. A drillmaster will bo obtained at once, ritles will be supplied each man, and practice will be held regularly, said Stallings. Twice a week the men will go to a rifle range. In their drill work at the spring training camp the players used sticks in place of rifles. Manager Stallings. himself a gradu ate of the Georgia Military Institute, said he would lead the Braves into service with the colors if the need arose. VIM) WRECKS READING STAN!) Reading, Pa., April 10.—Tho west wing of the large grandstand of the Circus Max!nius. the playing grounds of the Reading New York State league team, this city, was wrecked by the strong wind, a "young'' cyclone in force, that struck the big ball park Sunday night. About 100 feet of the grandstand was ripped from its foun dations and landed out on North Twelfth street side. The Farmers' Na tional Bank, the owners, have started to rebuild. AMATEIII LEADERS TO MEET Johnstown, April 10.—There will be a meeting of the executive committee of the Baseball Federation of the United States at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, April HI, at Hotel statler, Detroit, Mich., according to an an nouncement made here last night by Thomas Nokes, secretary of the feder ation. The • committee will decide whether it would be advisable to con tinue tlie federation elimination series next fall If the United States actively engages in war with Germany. PE.>N STATE ELECTS State College. April 10.—James B. Shea, of Smithton, Westmoreland coun ty, has been elected captain of Fenn State's track team .for tills season. He succeeds W. R. Mason, of Hazleton, who was graduated In February. Shea has been a mainstay in the middle dis tance events for two years. Ue is a junior In th eschool of agriculture, and was chosen to lead the trackmen over Hunter, the senior long distance run ner. L'TICA GETS II HOW Kit Utica, April 10.—Frank Brower, the youth who had a try-out with the Phillies last spring, has decided to ac cept the terms offered by Manager Mc- Connell and will report to the local New York State League pilot in this city next Saturday, which has been set as reporting day for the sq.uad. HXBRISBURG TELEGRXPH VGHEY JENNINGS HAS AN $ - • •• . ' |i - , -f m mmmmm mzk. ®mmi& HUGHEY JfTWTIKGS Hugh Ambrose Jennings, manager of the Detroit Tigers and Ty Cobb, attorney-at-law and champion grass-eater of the universe, just passed his forty-seventh mile stone. Loke so many other diamond stars, Hughie came from the mines. He was born in a little coal town in Pennsylvania, the son of a miner, and in due time became a breaker boy. He made his first baseball reputation as a backstop with the Lehighton, Pa., club, and In 1891, at the age of twenty-one, the red - haired, freckled, bow-legged youth was offered a job with Louisville, then in the National League. He was tried out at first, al though he had never played that position, and got away with in fine style. After a long and illustrious playing career with Louisville, Baltimore, Brooklyn and Philadelphia, Hughie was engaged as bench manager of the Tigers, and for ten years he has ranked among the ablest pilots of the game. Billy Sunday Says Boxing Marysville Season to Develops Needed Traits; Start With Local Team; Every Boy Should Train Manager Completes Roster New York, April 10.—Tlie Rev. Billy Sunday, the evangelist, is a boxing as well as a baseball enthusiast. Talking on the ring game, he said: "Nothing wrong with it. Boxing, properly regulated, is not harmful and does a certain amount of good. Cer tainly won't corrupt any one's morals. "There can'U be any harm so long as they don't slug with the bare knuck les, as in the old days," added Mr. Sunday. "Boxing makes a fellow courageous, makes him self-dependent. The boy or man who can box Isn't afraid. He knows he can protect himself and you never find that sort of a fellow seek ing trouble. "Every boy should be taught to box. Bully exercise. I want my boy to be able to box and protect himself. You never heard of a good boxer going around 'with a gun in his pocket, did you? No, you bet you ddin't. "I believe in boxing and all manly sports, just as I believe in universal military training. Good things for the nation at large. Makes boys and men strong of body and mind. "That's what we want, strong men, not weak, old fossils. Athletics keep you in good health. That's the main thing. "And," concluded Mr. Sunday, with a wink. "I don't inind telling you that I can handle my own dukes pretty well. In my younger days I was somewhat' of a boxer myself, and 1 haven't for gotten how." W u^is .bj^ D s^ LST n jH=-®CIGARETTESi You compare with any cigarette for purity, whole- p'| p-0 someness, quality, flavor, aroma; for satisfying "body" —for 04 anything any cigarette ever did offer you! 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Preliminary workouts are now being held 011 the J field by the members of the team, i Manager Harry Stees; has announced the roster of local players on the team as follows; W. Cunningham, J. K. Ltglitner, D. Clendenin, G x M. Herman, L. E. Palmer, C. C. Poffen- I berger, W. F. Palmer, C. H. Rutter, | A. E. Stees, R. E. Hartman, P. L. El ! lenberger, H. A. Hippie, Paul Ans pach and M. Clendenin. An important meeting of the usso | elation will be held this evening to ! make further plans for the opening jof the Daupliin-Perry league. A ! popularity contest is" now being held j to determine the most popular rail roader In town. The winner will re j ceive a handsome gold watcli. TRAINS 'IX) ISE TELEPHONE Oklahoma City, Okla., April 10.—Tel egraph service of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway system was dis | continued yesterday and all telegraph offices save those at division points were closed. Trains will lie dispatch ed by telephone. A policy of general retrenchment in expenses was assigned by railroad officials as the reason for tlie closing of the offices. . APRIL 10, 1917. WELLYSjJf CORNER Play ball to-morrow. The umps are ready, likewise the big league boys. Cold weather is still here but indica tions to-day were for a warming up. Baseball fans will this season see a new feature at ball games. All ma jor teams have been thoroughly mili tary trained and the opening demon strations to-morrow promise much in terest. Dav. Kramer, a Willlamsport star, lias signed a contract to play with Har risburg. Manager Cockill is of the opinion that lie is a comer. Kramer can play outfield, third base, and is a hitter. These kinds of boys promise to make the game interesting this summer. At the Motive Power gymnasium to-morrow night the Rosewood A. C. five. City Amateur League champions, will line up against the Motive Power Athletic Association five. Manager Charles J. Householder, for the rail roaders, promises some game. His team has been practicing hard. Regrets were many over the cancel- BASEBALL HEADS PREDICT GOOD BASEBALL SEASON; MAJORS READY FOR GONG New York, April 10.—On the eve of the annual pennant race in the ma jor baseball organizations the execu tives of both the National and Ameri can Leagues have prepared the follow ing statements for The Associated Press, outlining their views of the coming season's play; The National League PRESIDENT JOHN K. TENER. "Basing an ante-season judgment upon conditions and expectations as I find them wherever I go, I am led to believe that baseball generally will en joy a prosperous season in 1917. Of course I make this statement mindful that the contingency of a war pressed with vigor on land and sea might act as a deterrent on what otherwise un doubtedly would prove one of the best years baseball over lias experienced. This applies to the minor as well as to the major leagues. "Speaking especially of the National League, I am convinced that tlie race this year will be equally as keen and interesting as it was last season. I look for a great battle for honors right up to the end of the championship schedule. I am conscious that the gen eral public expects the New York Giants to win the pennant without apy trouble, in fact many think Manager McGraw will take liis team to tlie front and gradually widen the gap be tween the Giants and the other con tenders until the former will mako a walkover race of the schedule. "I do not entertain any such idea. Tlie other clubs should give New York a stiff fight and stranger things in baseball have happened than that the favorite fail to win. It is true that of fensively and defensively the Giants are a powerful combination but Brook lyn. Philadelphia and Boston, all good teams last year and the Quakers and Braves contenders for the title right up to the finish, will have something to say about the disposition of the pen nant this year. All three of these clubs look stronger than last year. • "Then again the west may furnish some surprises that the public little anticipate. Undoubtedly Pittsburgh has strengthened by the addition of young material. These youngsters made the Pirates quite formidable at the close* of last season. Mathewson may spring a surprise in Cincinnati. At all events the Reds are pretty cer tain to be superior to the form they showed last year. Chicago will begin the season handi capped by the loss o,f Captain Doyle, but the team may be' expected to play the very best ball of which it inher ently is capable under Manager Mitch ell, for whose ability I have the high est respect. In St. Louis tlie new or ganizers are beginning the season on the policy of building new from the ground up. Therefore Manager Hug gins will be given a free hand not only to use all of tlie young hlood at his disposal but other new players will be sought with the hope that the team may be strengthened to become a con tender for the pennant." lation of tlie big 1 meet scheduled foi Saturday at Ualtiinore. Jjocal railroad ers liad hoped to win laurels in sev eral of the events and Harrisburtr rooters were ready to do their part. The Toronto Club of the Internation al Lieatcue is said to be in bad shape. Man? of the players have not reported t f because of the cuts in salaries, an<f Manager Lajoie has not been able to get his men together for practice. University of Pennsylvania has not called off athletics and will not unless it is shown the program for this sea son cannot be carried out. Prepara tions are going on for the big reluy carnival, this month. schools are busy training for this event and it would be a great disappointment to hear of a cancellation. With President Tener and President Johnson speaking for their respective leagues certain that the war will not interfere with the baseball game, it is up to the fans to get busy and show no letup In boosting until the, season ends. . The American League PRESIDENT 15. B. JOHNSON "In the history of the American League there was never a year when the organization was so well Equipped for a championship race. A few days ago I received a letter from Connie Mack, in which he gave me the assur ance that he had a vastly improved team over the club of last year, and one that was sure to prove a factor in the championship contest. If we can accept this declaration, then there are eight contenders well balanced for a gruelling light this season. "Everyone will concede that Chica go, Boston, New York and Detroit are bound to be prime favorites. The Cleveland club has been greatly strengthened, which is attested by tlio fact that Morton shows this early in the spring all the strength he develop ed in the beginning of last season. Joe Wood claims his right arm has been well restored, so with Coveleskie, Bag by and Klepfer in support, Cleveland is sure to have a formidable staff of pitchers. "Many wise baseball men contended last fall that New York would have carried off the prize, had it not been for the Innumerable accidents that put some of its best players out of com mission during the summer. "The St. Louis club, under the lead ership ot Jones, must be reckoned with. Had the Browns started their tremendous drive a bit earlier in the season, the pennant might have gone to the organization rcpresnting the city by the big bridge. VVe all know of Boston's worth, and the lighting spirit of the Senators, under tho guidance of that wise and skilled man ager, Clark-Griffith. "War may place an indelible mark upon our patronage, but it cannot stamp out a contest that is sure to be seen, thorough and exciting from the tap of the bell until the tinish in Oc tober." Where Opening Games Will IJc Wajotf^ NATIONAL. LEAGUE New York at Boston. Philadelphia at Brooklyn. Pittsburgh at Chicago. St. Louis at Cincinnati. AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago at St. Louis. Cleveland at Detroit. Washington at Philadelphia. Washington at Philadelphia. Boston at New York. 1917 Team Mnnasers NATIONAL LEAGUE. Brooklyn—Wilbur Robinson. Philadelphia—Pat Moran. Boston—George Stallings. New York—John McGraw. Chicago—Fred Mitchell. St. Louis—Miller Huggins. Pittsburgh—James Callahan. Cincinnati—Christy Mathewson. AMERICAN LEAGUE Bostoh—lJack Barry. Chicago—Clarence Rowland. Detroit —Hugh Jennings. St. Louis —Fielder Jones. New York —Bill Donovan. i 'leveland—Lee Fohl. Washington—Clark Griffith. Philadelphia—-Ctinnie Mack.
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