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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. .
Spades Defeat Hearts in
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ROSEWOOD A. C. LEAGUE!
(rfess Alleys
Hearts 5 635
.Spades 1880
Spades C6O
Sheeley (Spades) li
Sheeley (Spades), 475
Standing of the Tennis
W. 1,. P.C.
Diamonds 4 2 .667
Hearts S 7 .533
ClutM 4 3 .444
Spades 5 7 .4171
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Evangelical 1401 j
3 'outrich & Co 1382 j
Doutrich & Co r>o3 i
P.oudemaker (Evangelical) 148
lloudemaker (Evangelical), .... 365
(Parthemore Alleys—Xew Cumberland)
Single Men 1372°
Married Men, 1366 j
Single Men 466
Hartman (Single Men) 125 1
Hartman (Single Men) 320 J
(Fickes Alleys—Lemoyne)
■Married Men 2430
Single Men > 2176
Married Men 84 4]
Bentzel (Single Men) 205 i
Kleser (Married Men) 557 !
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, (Copyright, 1917, The Tribune Ass'n.)
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.
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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
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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."
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j Pa., April 10. The
| Marysville Athletic Association will
open its baseball season this Satur-
J day with the Keener A. C. of Harris
! burg. The second game will be play
j ed the following week with the St.
Mary's A. A. Both games will be play
|ed on the local field. 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.
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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.