10 LOCAL SHOOTERS HOLD THEIR OWN IN WESTY HOGAN OPENING BILL-STEELTON RECORDS LOCAL SHOOTERS IN WESTY HOGAN Hang Up Good Scores at Sea shore; Pennsylvania Marks men Among Winners Local shooters held their own Jn yesterday's Westy Hogan opening program. Pennsylvania trapshoot ers were very much in evidence. The local scores follow: Grover Martin, 71. 90; J. I. Miller, 64, 69; Fred A. Godcharles, 74, 93; S. S. Hoffman, 71, 89; J. G. Martin, 67, 92; O. Eshenour, 63, 84; J. H. Freeland, 70, 96; H. B. Shoop, 70, 92; E. W. Shank, 69, 91; W. E. Hoov-I er, 66, 87. I Recapture Honors Pennsylvania recaptured the state team championship after a lapse of j two years. The Keystone quintet, topped the teams from the various sections of the country with a total of 488 breaks In 500 targets. New York and Ohio are nip and tuck for second place in the unfinished race, which will be concluded to-morrow. Charles H. Newcomb, of Philadel phia; Allen Heil, of Alientown; N'eal Gillespie, of Pittsburgh, and H. P.! Herman, of Lock Haven, each smash ed 98 in their century blue rocks, and Paul R. Burger, Catawissa, dropped 96. The grand total will probably be four or Ave targets higher than; the second team, and cannot possibly be beaten no matter what the per-! formances are to-day. New Jersey, I which won the championship last season, will likely be fourth. New York won the title in 1915 and Pennsylvania annexed in the three previous tournaments. J. I. Chipley, of Greensboro, S. C., i won the Maplewood hundred with a perfect run in his century. . A fast clip was set in this competition in which entries totaled some splendid scores. High Experts Frank H. Huseman. of Roches ter, and H. S. Welles, of New York, were high in the expert division, breaking 172 for the day. Other pro fessionals went under 170. Herman w as second among the amateurs with 172. R. D. Morgan, the sensation of last year's tournament, is still shoot ing well, and accumulated 171: breads yesterday. Newcomb, C. D. t'oburn, Neal Gillespie and Fred Harlow grassed 170. Clarence B. Piatt, New Jersey; state-champion, dropped 165. Beau-i champ, who won the Delaware title this season, broke 169. Fred Plum; also disappointed and fared poorly. Woolfolk Henderson continues to hold the long run record in this ex clusive set with 115. S. G. Vance, of Tlllaohburg, Ont., accumulated ill before missing out in his best run. William B. Severn, of Philadelphia, is also ranking high on this calendar with 7,8. Thousands For Stars Is Chicago Club Plan Chicago. Sept. 13.—1t was recently announced that the board of directors of the Chicago Cub team met at the Chicago Athletic Association and de cided to give President Weeghnian permission to spend $200,000 foe the best ball players it is possible to get for the club. This was verified by President Weeghnian. who declared that the figures mentioned were wrong, and should have been $250,000 instead. "I did not want this story to get out at this time," said President Weeghman, "but as it has I will say that $250,000 has been given me to spend for players. I expected to an nounce it later, but not until after I had bought 'h" men I wanted for Manager Mitchell." President \\ eeghman has tried to purchase certain players all season, but money could not land them. He offered '.s much as $50,000 for lioger lfornsby, of the St. Louis Club, but even that sum could not "induce Rranch Rickey or Miller Huggins to part with the star inflelder. More that $25,000 was offered for Max Carey, of the Pirates, but that also *as refused by Barney Dreyfuss. Hornsby and Carey probably never will be members of the Cubs, as their owners decline to dispose of them for cash. Who the players are that Presi dent Weeghman hopes to secure for cash this winter is difficult even to guess. Albright to Play Penn; Nineteen Players Out Myerstown, Pa., sept. 13. Nineteen candidates for the red and white foot ball eleven responded yesterday to Coach Charley Kelchner's first call for practice on Albright Field, and this number, it is expected, will be greatly increased beftire the end of the week, inasmuch as the college term has lust begun and students are still enrolling. Eight of last year's varsity team have been lost to Albright. Peter Gamher, of Lebanon, is captain. Albright's first game will be with the Indians on Saturday, September 29. at Carlisle. The game, which had originally been scheduled with Pennsylvania on Sep tember 22, has been transferred to Oc tober 3 on Franklin Field. I ARROW 1 COLLARS <2 for 35* 3 for CtUETT-PEABODrgGO-INCvMAKERS WE REPAIR^\ RADIATORSI Lamps, Fenders, Hoods, Bodies and Windshields I Nuss Mfg. Co. I ■ llth and Mulberry Sta. H HARHfSniHU, PA. r HEADQUARTERS FOR 1 SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES THURSDAY EVENING, Copyright. 1917, Th Tribune Association York Tribune). World Series High Spots They come and go—these world series—faster than one cares to think they do. It doesn't seem that more than a very few years have passed since we saw Christy Mathewson shut out the Athletics for 27 innings. But that was twelve campaigns ago, back in the fall of 1905, and of the young stars just entering baseball then only one or two remain. We can recall no world series in the past that was not arrayed with any number of interesting Incidents, here and there, but out of the lot there are four high spots which in some way seem to loom above the rest. These four high spots embrace pitching, batting, the best Individual play and the best all-around play for the entire series. Pitching World series may go to indefinite lengths but no man can ever hope to live long enough to see Mathewson's work in 1905 surpassed, or even tied. That three-game exhibition still remains as the top liner. It was not so much the fact that Matty worked twenty-seven runless innings—but rather the additional point that for those twenty-seven innings he held a hard hit ting ball club so completely at his mercy that you couldn't figure how they could ever score, no matter how many games were played. The Athletics were unable' to get a rally started, much less under way. Tlic Batting Top Despite Frank Baker's two successive home runs against the Giants in 1911, the most effective batting that we recall witnessing belonged to Corporal Hank Gowdy, then the premier catcher of the Boston Braves. This was the series where the Braves overwhelmed the Mackmen in 1914. In this four game series Gowdy hit for .545, a record for complete play. In two of the games he was purposely passed so often that he hed but little chance to show. But in two of the others he hit for a home run. two triples, three doubles and a single—six hits good for seventeen bases! That mark is another that will stand for a number of drifting years. Lank Hank was n.o mighty slugger through the year but'upon that one week'B occasion he arose to dizzy heights that no one has yet seen. The One Star Piny The greatest single play we ever saw in a world series developed in the final game of the 1912 series wherein the Red Sox finally overthrew the Giants. Seven games had been played, with three victories for each and one draw. Mathewson was facing Bedient at the time and in. the fifth inning the Giants were leading. 1 to 0. Coming up in his period Larry Doyle crashed into one of Bedlent's curves for the mightiest wallop of the series. The drive started far out over Harry Hooper's head in right. The Red Sox star raced back until he came against the wire fence bordering the field of play. As Hooper came within a stride of the fence he saw the ball was going to clear the barricade for a home run. He not only had to leap high for the catch, but the jump, as Speaker explains it, threw him out of position and he was forced to reach with his bare hand over the wire for the catch. This play cost the Giants the series. "It was," says Tris Speaker who had run up to within a few yards of the catch, "the greatest single play I ever saw or ever hope to see. With Hooper thrown out of position at the time it was physlcully impossible for him to reach that ball. Yet he did. How I will never know. I've never seen an outfield catch before or after that even approached it." And to add to its general effect it saved and won the longest world scries ever played under the new order. The Star AH-Arouniler The best all-around display of world series baseball that we have seen belongs to Charles Lincoln Herzog in the same Red Sox-Giants series. On the offense in that same game Herzog had a batting average of .400. He scored six runs himself and drove in five more, being responsible for eleven runs. on defense around third he accepted eleven, put-outs and sixteen as sists. twenty-seven, chances without an error. Of these sixteen assists at least six were on the hardest variety of plays. Some one else may have beaten this combination on attack and defense, but if so we don't recall fche detail just now. That was Herzog's last world series—up to the coming event. After a five year lapse in which he has played third, short and second, he facea his next test at second base. As a world series type he has few equals and no superiors as he has the knack of playing his best ball under the hardest and heaviest pressure. As Eddie Collins is another such type—a fine money player—the duel between this pair will be one of the leading features along the line of march. WRIGHT CHALLENGES FISH FOR CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY SPECIAL FEATURE TOMORROW By PETER P. CARNEY Editor National Sport* Syndicate Philadelphia. Sept. 13.—Frank S. Wright, of BufLalo, N. Y„ has chal lenged George N. Fish, holder, of Lyndonville, N. Y., to shoot for the \ 18 yards championship challenge trophy, and subject to the terms under which the trophy Is given it will Jje placed in open competition at the shoot of the Westy Hogans at i Atlantic City, N. J., to-morrow. Mr. Fish won the championship | trophy last fall at the Westy Hogans ; shoot by breaking SrO targets out of 100. The targets are thrown 60 yards] in this competition. Seventy shooters participated in the last event. When a contest for this trophy is arranged by reason of challenge or otherwise' the event becomes an open compe tition and all amateurs are eligible to compete for the trophy and purse. The entrance fee is $10; $8 of this goes to the purse to be distributed among the high guns, $1 to the club holding the shoot, to pay for the tar gets, and $1 to the accumulation purse. Those Who Shoot When the accumulation purse reaches S2OO the cup is placed in competition and those who have won the trophy t>ince the previous shoot- j off for the accumulation purse—i which was in 1913—can enter the competition for the S2OO and the | trophy. At the present time the! accumulation purse amounts to I $174.65 and the shoot next Friday! will bring it up to the S2OO mark, j It isn't likely that the additional event for the purse and the trophy will be held this week, as the Hogans j program can hardly stand the crowd- i ing in of another event. I Wisconsin Boys Spend Summer in Patriotic Work Madison, Wis. —Thousands of Wis consin schoolboys, "through an or ganization effected by the State Council of Defense, are spending their summer vacation in patriotic service on the farms and in the fac tories of the state. The purpose of the work is to counterbalance by means of boy la bor the loss of men serving in the National Army. The co-operation of the boys them selves in the movement Is enthusias tic. They sign an enrollment blank recording their age, physique, school ing, farm and factory experience, and period of vacation, and are then assigned to Jobs by a labor agent. In case of a change of employment the boy musv report to the agent. He is visited weekly or biweekly by a NEW PRICE OF Collars Ot.OT IN AMCMC4 20 Cents Each 3 for 50 Cents 12 for $2.00 For Sale By DIVES, POMEROY & STEWART, HAHRISBURG. PA. The record for this event is 97 out of 100 and was made three times succession. Bill> roord. of Wil 'mington, did the trick first in 1914 at Atlantic City in the Hogans shoot I and Allan Hell, of Allentown, Pa., repeated one year later in the same place. The late A. B. Richardson, of Dover, Del., equaled the mark in the shoot for the trophy at the eastern I handicap in July, 1916. History of the Trophy | The history of this trophy is in- ' | teresting. In 1895 it was first placed lin competition in Baltimore, Md. j Live bird shooting was then in its zenith. Smokeless powder made in .America was just becoming a reality, as up to that time American sports men had had to depend on the mak ers abroad for their smokeless pow der. And last, but not least, Fred Gilbert, most expert of all clay target breakers of all time, was ushered into the limelight by winning the famous live bird trophy at Baltimore the first time it was placed in compe tition. Gilbert was young and un known, and what he did that day In October twenty-two years ago is still the talk of trapshooters, old and young. In succeeding years the trophy changed hands many times and Gil i bert, Crosby, Heittes, the Elliotts, Marshall and others claimed it for a I time. When live bird shooting passed ! on the trophy was removed from competition and later on put up as a ! clay target trophy. The conditions | being that it be shot for whenever : there is a challenge. Whenever a I challenge match is shot everyone I desiring to do so may enter and have equal rights in the competition I with the challenger and challengee. supervisor, who in 'turn is required to make monthly reports to the county labor agents, that an inti mate record of the work being done may be kept. CAN* THE BABY WHEX YOU TAKE A JOURNEY The good news is true. We have been hoping for years, says Popular Science Monthly, that some intellU gent inventor would come along with a devise to can obstreperous infants during the late hours of the night. We suggested a hermetically-sealed can wrapped in soundproof material, but Caleb M. Prather, of Evanston, Illinois, sidestepped our Instruments at several important points. He Intends to use the can to rock babies to sleep. It is, in fact, a bab.v holder. Mr. Prather has provided several holes in his can through which air can reach the baby. We don't object to the baby getting air but as long as there are holes in the can the baby's yells will be as nerve racking as ever. SOLDIERS TO GET PINEAPPLES Honolulu, Hawaii. Hawaiian pineapples will be served In all the United States army training camps on pineapple day If the requests sent out by the Promoflbn Com mittee at Honolulu are granted. Pineapple duy falls on November 14 this year. SAV JOAQUIN CROP OCTIiOOK Stockton, Cal. State Horticul tural Commissioner G. H. Hecke, says the Independent, gives the fol lowing crops in San Joaquin county as 100 per cent, of normal: Almonds, oranges, plums and prunes. Pears are 90 per cent, and walnuts are listed at 75. BXRRTSBURG TETJEGIT/PH Official Averages of Steel ton Baseball Club, 1917 With a record of twenty-one games won and eight lost, the Steel ton team of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation League had a successful season. Averages show good work by the playerß. It was a team built up frdm the start and not strengthened by the addition of league stars. The Steelton team remained i ntact throughout the season. McCord, who played in but four games, had a batting average of .400. The real hitter on the team was Zellers, the pitcher and outfielder, who wound up with .368. "Shorty" Miller was a close second with .360. Manager Miller also lead in stolen bases. The averages follow: Tot. Bat. Field Players. Games. AB. R, H. O. A. E.58.HR.38.28. Bs. Ave. Ave. McCord, ss. f. ... 4 10 3 4 9 8100048 .400 .944 Zellars, p. f 24 76 15 28 12 23 4 4 0 3 4 38 .368 .897 Miller, f 28 111 27 40 60 1 1 15 3 7 9 72 .360 .981 Carris, c. f 24 86 13 29 196 34 4 6 1 2 8 44 .337 .983 McGeehan, 3b.. 21 80 8 26 13 32 2 6 0 3' 9 41 .325 .957 Robinson, ss.lb.f 18 56 16 17 26 7 1 8 2 2 1 28 .304 .971 Ogden, p. f 20 50 5 15 10" 18 2 0 2 0 0 21 .300 .933 Cornog, 2b 27 103 18 30 55 65 7 9 4 2 4 50 .291 .945 Connors, f 14 53 11 15 14 0 2 6 0 2 0 19 .283 .875 Hoar, p. f 13 31 5 8 18 12 1 0 0 0 0 8 .258 .968 McGuckln. ss 15 51 7 13 18 32 3 4 0 0 4 17 .255 .943 Murray, lb 21 73 8 18 173 8 5 2 0 0 4 22 .247 .973 Ritter, c 8 22 4 5 72 9 1 1 0 0 0 5 .227 .988 Att|fks, p. 1b... 8 11 1 1 30 7 1 0 0 0.0 1 .091 .974 245 813 141 249 696 256 35 61 12 21 47 374 .306 .965 PITCHERS' RECORD Won Lost S. O. B. B. Ave. Zellars 8 1 99 37 .889 Hoar 5 1 33 11 .833 Ogden 6 6 109 37 .500 LOCAL MANAGER CALLS OFF TEAM Reading in Tie With Harris burg Division; Enters Protest Harrlsburg Division of the Phila delphia and Reading League ti-ed up yesterday with the Reading Car Shop team score 3 to 3. The game was not finished. In the first half of the ninth "Snowball" Winters handed up puzzlers but the umps favored the Reading team and called balls on the local pitcher. The latter cut the plate every time but received no consid eration. Manager Luigard stopped the game and entered a protest. How Runs Scored With four singles In succession Readitig scored two runs in the sec ond inning. Harrlsburg evened up in their half of the fourth by all-around good stickwork. Reading annexed another run, two singles and two stolen bases. Harrisburg evened up again in the ninth on a double, a stolen base and a single. Then came the trouble. The score up to the finish follows; HARRISBURG Players— AB. R. H. O. A. Larkin, 2b 5 1 3 1 2 Shafer, ss .4 0,1 4 6 Walters, rf G 0 1 0 0 Keller, lb 3 1 0 0 1 Thompson, cf 2 0 0 1 0 Miller, c 3 0 0 8 0 Johnson, p-lf 4 13 0 1 Ehling, If 3 0 1 2 0 Winter, p.........0 0 0 0 0 Totals 33 3 11 26 12 READING Players— AB. R. H. O. A. Peifer, 2b 3 0 12 4 Wagner, rf 3 0 0 3 0 F. Mullln, ss 4 0 1 1 6 Guss lb 4 0 0 10 0 Buckley, cf 4 1 1 4 0 Primes, If 4 2 2 2 0 Hbuck, Sb 4 0 2 0 0 W. Mullln, c 3 0 2 6 2 O'Mara, p 2 0 0 0 2 Graves, p......... 2 0 0 0 1 Totals 33 3 9 27 14 Score by Innings: Harrisburg 00020000 I—3 Reading 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 o—3 . otam/hvaaij : •a# 1 SCORES OF YESTERDAY National League Philadelphia, 6; Boston, 3. ~~ New York, 9; Brooklyn, 0 (first game). New York. 2; Brooklyn, 1 (sec ond game; 11 innings). Pittsburgh, 2; St. Louis, 1. Cincinnati, 6; Chicago, 4. American League Philadelphia, 7; New York, 1. Boston, 1; Washington, 1 (18 In nJngs; darkness). Cleveland. 8; Detroit, 2 (first game). Detroit 4; Cleveland 2 (second game; 11 innings). Other clubs not scheduled. International League Providence. 9; Newark, 5^ Toronto, S; Montreal, 2 (first gcme). Montreal, 8; Toronto, 7 (second game). Rochester, 3; Buffalo, 2 (first game), Buffalo, 3; Rochester, 2 (second game). Baltimore, B; Richmond, 4 (first game). Richmond, 15; Baltimore, 6 (second game). Philadelphia and Reading League Harrlsburg Division, 3; Reading, 3 (game called). WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY National League Brooklyn at Philadelphia. New York at Boston (two games). Pittsburgh at St. Louis. Other teams not scheduled. American I.eague Boston at New York. Philadelphia at Washington. Other teams not scheduled. WHERE THEY PLAY TOMORROW National League Philadelphia at Boston. Brooklyn at New York. ' Pittsburgh at Chicago. Cincinnati at St. Louis. American League Philadelphia ai Washington. Boston at New York. Chicago at Detroit. Cleveland at St. Louis. STANDING OF THE TEAMS National League Clubs— . W. L. Pet. New York 86 48 .642 Philadelphia - 75 67 .564 St. Ijouls 75 64 .539 Chicago 70 69 .504 Cincinnati 69 70 .497 Brooklyn 62 70 .470 Boston 57 72 .442 Pittsburgh 45 89 .335 American League Clubs— W. L Pet. Chicago 91 47 .660 Boston 81 52 .609 Cleveland 75 63 .54J Detroit 69 <9 .500 New York 65 70 .481 Washington 62 70 .470 St. Louis 52 87 .374 Philadelphia 48 85 .361 I'hllndrlphln nnil llt'mllnu league Clubs— W. L Pet. Port Richmond 13 1 .929 Atlantic City R. R 13 2 .863 Spring Garden 10 4 .714 Reading Loco. Shop .... 8 6 .571 St. Clair 6 5 .545 Harrisburg 8 7 .533 Shamokln 7 8 .466 Reading Division 6 8 .421 Transportation 3 10 .230 Reading Car Shops 3 13 .188 General Offices 1 11 . ofn Chesterfield CIGARETTE S of IMPOOT DOME A new combination— mild, yet they "Satisfy"! / Yes, this new cigarette is more than \A fl just good-tasting, it delivers a new and fi important thing to smokers — Chesterfields "reach home/' they let you know you are smoking— they lit. iff, "Sathfy"l Yet, they're Mild! jT?I Don't be surprised—the new blend of / Imported and Domestic tobaccos does it. And the blend can't be copied. Let Chesterfields give you new /wTff / cigarette enjoyment L == __ ===^_====================== J /AC/ Package wrapped in VP / dust-proof, moisture- U Pr°°f paper—keeps "71 / 7 them fresh. 2o& ALLOW TIME TO MAKE BIG JUMP World's Scries Teams to Get One Rest Day For Travel Chicago, Sept. 13.—A day will elapse between the world's series games if played in New York and Chicago, President Johnson, of the American League announced last night. The railroads offered a twen ty-hour schedule, which would per mit games to be played in either citv the following day, but President Johnson decided the risk of a delay of the special train*. thus causing a rearrangement of the series, was too great. Xo Story Writing Players in the Anibrican League will be prohibited from writing so called "expert" newspaper stories on the series, Johnson said. This rul ing not only applies to members of the c lub participating in the games, but to players on otliets teams in the league whose services as*writprs have been sought. The American 'League executive termed the offer of H. H. Frazee, president of the Boston club, who said he would give each member of the team a SI,OOO bonus, if it won the American League pennant, a "cheap piece of theatrical play." The offer, President Johnson said, was after Boston apparently had no chance of overcoming Chicago's lead. "Frazee would drop dead is he had to pay It," Johnson said. SEPTEMBER 13, 1917. WELLY'S jf CORNER When Manager Luigc.rd of the Harrlsburg Division team of the Philadelphia and Reading League withdrew his team from the field yesterday he acted wisely, according to the general belief. There has been no baseball team In this city or vi cinity that played a cleaner game than the Rutherford contingent. They took raw treatment in a num ber of towns and lost games because they acted like real sportsmen, but when an umpire is so deliberate lm his unfairness, as was reported yes-1 terday, the only thing to do was to: quit. In both the Reading and Penn- I sylvanla Railroad Leagues there has been trouble with the umpires all season. In planning for next sea son every effort possible should be made to secure competent neutral men.- An umpire who does not know any better may be excused some times, but deliberate attempts to take a game from another team by play "ing favoritism hurts baseball. Pacer Steps Record Mile on Syracuse Track Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 13. Little Frank D won the Chamber of Com merce $2,000 stake for 2.05 pacers, the feature event of yesterday's Grand Circuit prograni, in straight heats and established a record for the new State "Shorty" Miller had some baseball team this season at Steelton. Ho brought about good results by doing things himself. He hit the ball and stole bases, setting a pace for tha other fellows. That he is a retd leader in all sports cannot bo de nied. Harrisburg shooters were in evi dence yesterday at the Westy Hogan shoot. While they did not pull down any big honors their scores showed them to be in the running for cash divisions. Long runs made by ilia Harrisburg and West Fairview repre sentatives attracted much attention. It is now said that there will b a day given to the teams playing In the world's series to make the nec essary jumps from West to East. It is also said that Sunday games will be in order. Why not cut out thosa Sunday games and do the traveling 011 the Seventh. There is likely to be but one jump if two games are play ed in each home series. New York will win at home and abroad. fair track, negotiating the mile in 2.04 >4. Kayre Rosamond had little opposi tion in the 2.05 trot, winning: in straight heats. Lu Princeton won tho Karnival $2,000 stake for 2.19 trotters. The 2.12 trot for the Lee cup, with amateurs drlvinsr, developed neck and-neck finishes. Ed Geers was called to the stand after the third race and presented With an oil painting; by William Q. Van Zandt, of Albany, depicting Na poleon Direct, with Geers up, making the mile in I.s9'>i.
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