14 HUNTING RABBITS IS NOW POPULAR SPORT-STEELTON STAR TELLS HIS STORY GREENSBURGTO PLAY SATURDAY Western Champs Will Have Eight Letter Men in Their Lineup Against Tech When Greensburg High school visits the Island on Saturday, Tech will have to face a team that has been in the championship class over since 1913. In all these years Greens burg has never been defeated, and has seldom been scored upon. Tech is after the honor of breaking that streak, and lias just sufficient confi dence to go out and win the game. That 117 to 0 score handed to Al toona, and the victory over Steelton have given Coach Ryan's lads the proper amount of assurance, and the team will be out to land a vic tory Saturday afternoon. Game Starts Early Tech officials will not take any chances with the game being called on account of darkness, and have scheduled the contest for 2.45. Lynn | will referee, while the umpire will' be Bruce. Another record crowd isi looked for, as the Westmoreland I county eleven will bring several hun- | dred rooters with them. It is their' only game this season out of a schtd-1 ule of eleven contests that will be played away from home. The Greensburg team is coached! by A. w. "Buzz" Weabecker, who is] the only player to win his "G" four years. After being captain in his; senior year, he went to Washington I and Jefferson where he played four! years of college football and was j picked by many critics as All-Amer-1 lean center 1n 1915. lie is a pupil of! "Bcb" Folwell, now coaching Penn. j Eight Letter Men The visitors will have eight letter men on the team that will come to j this city. Captain and Fullback Jones has seen three years of serv ice. Ex-Captain W. C. Griffith is irtaying his fourth year of football, ile will run the team from the quar back position. Reynolds at center and Knepper at end have played i three years for Greensburg. Henry j Alvine, Ray Coleman, John Buch anan and Manager Henry Painter arc ! playing their second year for the! team. One of the big features in connec tion with the visiting team is the fact that every fall the team is taken in to the mountains of Somerset county to a training camp. This year the eleven with a number of substitutes, coaches and trainers spent August 18 to September 1 at "Champion"! training camp. Tech scrimmaged I this afternoon against the Academy team in preparation for the big game Saturday. Baseball Magnate Offers Company to Government Chicago, Nov. I.—President James C. Dunn, of the Cleveland American League Club, has offered his services and has placed at the disposal of the government the large construction company of which he is the head. He said that his company has just completed forty-seven miles of rail road in Indiana and that It Is pre pared for immediate service In con nection with the war. "I have put our company at the j disposal of the government without \ any string to the offer," said Mr. Dunn. "It is fully equipped and or ganized to undertake any kind of construction work for the govern ment. We shall not object if we are sent to join Captain T. I* Huston, of the New York Americans, who is with an engineering regiment in France." Mr. Dunn said he was in favor of a shorter playing schedule for the ma jor leagues next season. From a lelltr on file from a U. S. officer In France "We need 'BULL' DURHAM more than any other ar ticle that could be obtain ed in the United States." The Makings of a Nation . Guaranteed by c 'JotfLe&rQ , 'NCO OWATf.P | i 11 St Kt 22 nd Street by nth Avenue i NEW YORK I A new fireproof hotel, most : , conveniently located. Two ave- 1 nue blocks from Pennsylvania It. R- Terminal. Single Rooms and Suites Permanent-Transient Hlao the new Goldfish Restaurant Smart and refined . Wllllniu S. O'Brien, Pres. . .————____ J / I HEADQtIARTKKS POR ] SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES ! THURSDAY EVENING, :E OWNER SEEKING JOHNS AINSMITH YAN, WAI/TE,!?. oJOHNSON "Johnson and Ainsmith for New York." When the Yankees take the field for their first game next April It is likely that the announcer will announce this battery. Colonel Jacob Ruppert, president of the local American league team, once again is hot on the trail of this great com bination. Last August he made a bid for them, but was turned down. Now he is prepared to make another offer. During the Yankees' last stop in Chicago Ruppert asked Clark Grif fith. manager of the Washington j & Gr&nUanAJ^ice Copyright, I#l7, Th Tribune Association (Nev York Tribunal. THE GREAT ADVENTURER With all its misery and death. Its battered hills and shattered plains, , With all its drift of poisoned breath, Its lashing gales, its sodden rains— We know—with all Its bleak despair, With all its phantom exodus, That somewhere —somewhere Over There The Great Adventure beckons us. We know in Flan.ders bloody sod How deep they sleep in endless dreams; We know how many crosses nod By silent hills and shadowed streams. But through the ghostly drifts that play We know, through bugle, fife and drum, That somewhere Over There to-day The Great Adventure whispers "Come!" We know the rare thanks we should feel So far from any foe's advance, Safe from the shrapnel and the steel Which rains its fury down on France; But in our hearts We also know The old content's forever gone, Where on some far dream's undertow The Great Adventure calls us on. By all the ghosts of No Man's Land, Through all its fury, flame and liood. On through the anguish each must stand In wallow-drilts of mud and blood On through whatever hells may wait With marching feet and rolling drum, Beyond the iinal grip of Fate The Great Adventure whispers "Come!" Colgate now has the 50—50 feeling. She understands completely just stood atT8 n to o! 1 e ' CTen months ag0 ' whc " ultimate verdict In all this talk about the preponderance of Georgia Tech and Pittßhunrh Michigan would esteem a polite word or two Any machineXt rumple Nebraska 20 to ois not to be left out of the day's gossip Not precisely, in fact, by no means. feossip. "Informal football" as a phrase possibly means something. But just how much formality have you ever observed in the average football game* referee? "° rt of to . otbn " Kame ' including the cheer leader and the WIIY SHOULDN'T TIIEY BE? 'Probably the two best backfleld men of the year," suggests a eontemnn rary, "are Ollphant, of the Army, and Guyon, of Georgia Tech " COntemp °- They probably are. Why shouldn't they be? This is a season in the main, of new men. Most of the old stars have gone on. But Oliphant and Guyon are football veterans even beyond the extended limit of the term. lne J e J>PPened very recently to be delving in some football guides dealing with gridiron events of 1912 and 1913, in these more than passing mention was made of the All-American merit of Oliphant, of Perdue, and Guyon of Carlisle. And those were back in the days when staf talent was abounding artd plentiful. ligure in. all the unusual experience they have both drawn in these last four or five years and the lack of competitive talent, and the onlv wonder is that any others could be even close. M Yet there are at least one or two who are willing to indulge the hunch that Strupper, of Tech, and Berry, of Penn. are not very far away from either veteran, who might be known as the Wagner and the Lajoie of foot- Fitzsimmons at his best might have whipped Willard at his best if had been willing to lend Bob the use of his jawbone for a moment or two Otherwise, no. As great a boxer and as hard a hitter as Fitz was snottinp Willard 102 pounds is another affair. ' B ' ,ottln S "How does it feel," queries a reader, "to play golf against a man who P bout alf ' aSt " ine h °' eS 80 ? " ° h ' anywhere from 7u > 9 down. That's "Germany still has a punch left," pessimizes an exchange Undoubtedlv But this Is no one punch" war. otedly. Basketball Season Opens With Shamokin Veterans Basketball will start Saturday night at Chestnut Street Auditorium. Shamokin will be the first attraction against the Harrisburg Independents. The game starts at 8.15 and dancing will follow, as has been the custom for many seasons. The Miss Sara Lemer Orchestra will again be in evidence at all games. The Independents this season will Include local stars. While a number have gone to the front, Ike McCord has a large squad to pick from. He has booked a number of high-class games and promises interesting sport all season. EDDIE- AINSMITH. team, his price for Johnson, Ain smith and Morgan. One hundred thousand dollars, was the Old Fox's reply. (Jf course, this figure was out of the question. Hut now it Is be lieved that Grift set this price merely as a "feeler." Ruppert informed the newspaper men traveling with the team that the "deal for Johnson and Ansmith is off." But when the Colonel sets out to accomplish anything it takes more than one little obstacle to stop him. Even when Griff set the exorbitant price the Colonel didn't cool out a bit. McGraw Breaks Silence; Picks Next Year's Stars Baltimore, Md„ Nov. I.—John J McGraw, manager of the Giants, is here visiting liis many friends and attending the races at Laurel. Mc •Graw Is as strong an adherent of the turf game as of baseball, and likes to take a chance on his Judgment of speed of horses. McGraw had time to talk of base ball and Incidentally said that his pitching staff was the best in the country, that Benny Kauff would load tho National batsmen next season and that the Giants would lead the league race through out the 1918 campaign. HARRD3BURG CFTHTELEGRAPH RECORD SCORES IN TIE SHOOTOFF Three Performances That Are Entitled to More Consider ation Than Is Given BY PETER I'. CARNEY Editor National Sports Syndicate There are many excellent achieve ments in sport hidden 'away each year through the failure of some per son or persons to turn the calcium to .the right spot. Going over some trapshootlng fig ures, we ran across three excellent performances and wo are doing this much to try and see that they get the light of day. These three performances are sliootoffs of ties and one of them is without question the greatest shoot oft ever recorded. This was between Andy Fllckinger, of Vallejo, Cal., a grizzled veteran, and Owen E. Evans, of Los Angeles, Cal., a you-ngster, and the veteran got the decision. Fllckinger and Evans tied for sec ond honors in a shoot of the Vernon (Cal.) Gun Club, with 198 breaks in 200 targets. On the shootoff Flickinger broko If 9 to Evans' 108 targets. There isn't another shoot off in history that required 200 tar gets to determine a winner. Each shooter broko twenty straight on the first string and eaeh missed one in the second string of twenty. Flick inger broke 177 straight to finish, while Evans ran 160 before he miss ed a target in the tenth string. There m y have been better shooting than this some time, some place, but it has not come before our notice. Another Rig Event Another great shootoff that went by totally unnoticed was the one for third place in the preliminary han dicap of the Grand American Trap shooting tournament. As the shoot ers had the.same handicaps in the Grand American event, the tie was shot off as the men went down the line, and, therefore, it passed off without any one giving it attention at the time. There were eleven men tied for third place with ninety-SAven breaks, but after the first string of twenty in the Grand American there were only three left—John B. Lallanee, of Huntington, West Va.; C. D. McGnry, of Hammond, Ind.. and W T . L. Hayes, of Dwight, 111. Hayes dropped out on the second string. ' Lallanee and MeGary went down to the fifth string —the entire 100 targets in the Grand American, to determine a winner. They broke the same number of targets on each twenty, excepting the fifth, when McGary missed five and Lallanee two. Tom Ilalc Loses Tom Hale, of Mt. Pleasant, had won the Tennessee state champion-J ship three years in succession. This year he went to the shoot with a team-mate, J. B. Fite. Hale went out with ninety-nine—a score that look-; ed good for the fourth championship, j Fite was one down in eighty and went straight on his last twenty and tied his pay for the title. It re quired sixty targets to decide the winner, Fite breaking fifty-nine and Hale fifty-eight, all the targets be ing lost in the third twenty. Hale and Fite returned*to Mt. Pleasant as they came—friends and together. Only champions or runners up can represent their states in the National Amateur Championship event, nnd Fite graciously withdrew in favor of Hale, who is regarded as the best shot in Tennessee. And Hale was good enough to be in the squad that broke 200 straight in the champion ship event. CHARLEY WHITE DYING New York, Nov. I.—Chariey White, known throughout the country as the referee of important boxing bouts who has been ill for a number of months of a complication of diseases, was reported to-day to be dying at his home. White's last appearance in the ring as a referee was at the Willard-Moran ..fight in New York, March 25. 1916. GOOD BASEBALL AFTER WAR ENDS President John K. Tener Says Game Will Be More Popu lar; Predicts New Life New York, Nov. I.—Whatever set back professional baseball may be forced to endure because of the war, John K. Tener, president of the Na tional League, is convinced that in the lons run the war will do Amer lea's great game a tremendous amount of good. He already is look ing forward to the harvest days which will come after a declaration of peace. "Baseball will get a wonderful im petus after the war," said the former Pennsylvania Governor yesterday. "In fact, it is getting it now, but the full fruits will be reaped after the soldiers return to civil life. K\jwH'ts Reawakening "I look for a reawakening of base ball interest all over the country aa* soon as hostilities end. This will be especially true in territory which is now suffering most. The chain of minor leagues which entwined the country up to three or four years ago will all be back, with a new vigor and supported by a fresh interest. "Generally speaking, the major league clubs are weathering the war most satisfactorily, but peace will bring a new era of prosperity to the •major league clubs. I wouldn't mind \ having a big league franchise my self after this war. It certainly will I be worth having. New Records Coming "In fact, I look for the big leagues to surpass their previous best records after we emerge from this struggle. "There'is no time in the recent history of our country in which the real red-blooded Americanism of our people has been so manifest as In the last few weeks. It took a little time, for it to reach the surface, but now that it is aroused it will increase In volume until It wins the war. That slptrit of Americanism will need an outlet when the boys come home and will find a natural one In base ball." RED CROSS MASQUERADE Wormleysburg, Pa., Nov. I.—A Hal lowe'en social was given on Tuesday evening In the townhall by the local lted Cross auxiliary. The decorations were beautiful and the edibles excel lent. To tha strains of music from a Vlctrola, the masked guests danced. Fortune-telling by Madame La Belle was one of the features of the eve ning. STAR ~ TELLS HIS STORY HARRY F. ROTE Another popular football star ans wered his country's call to-day. For mer Central High Captain Harry F. Rote was numbered with the Na tional Guard contingent that left for Governor's Island. "Rotey" camo from Gettysburg College yesterday, leaving a big hole in the varsity lineup there. He has been doing great work for the battlefield boys this season. Captain Rote last night was the guest of . friends at a "feed" and lat er attended a dance at Winterdale. To-day many of his friends were on hand to say farewell to the popu lar athlete, including "Shorty" Miller. Word was sent to Central High students too late to arrange for a large representation from that in stitution. Professor H. G. Dibble expressed his regrets because of the late notification, as it was intended to have at least 200 in line this morning. Duck Shooting Is on at Susquehanna Flats; Report Game Plentiful Baltimore, Md„ Nov. 1. —Sports- men are getting ready for the open ing of the duck shooting season. Bush River Gunpowder, Salt Petre and Magothy River shooting seasons are on to-day. Shooting on the Sus quehanna Flats will not start until to-morrow morning. Shooting on the flats will start before sun rise. This, is ah October change in the law and is known by only a few. In Cecil and Harford counties, ac cording to the conservation laws of Maryland, wild fowl may be law fully killed only on Mondays, Wed nesdays and Fridays from November 1 and Saturdays are included front January 1 to end of season. As to day is Thursday and the Susque hanna Flats are included in these counties, shooting there will start on Friday. The taking over the property around Gunpowder Neck by the United States government for prov ing grounds for big guns will mean the passing of a number of shooting clubs that have been in existence since the year one. Reports from the flats state that there are myriads of wild fowl there feeding on the wild celery that grows there in abundance. It is said by prominent gunners of the coun try that the flats around Havre de Grace are the best feeding grounds for wild fowl in the East. Prom inent sportsmen of New York and Philadelphia always make the flats their mecea for shooting ducks. There are plenty of ducks on South river. This is unusual, for they do not arrive there until the cooler jveather. From present prospects, the 1917-18 will be the best duck shooting season in years. The cold snap will prove a boon, as K ■ ' iii EST JMHk ■ i i ■ ■ ■■ .I, • , Thinks He Has Boon Treated Unjustly; Sorry For His Actions That Captain If. O. Dayhoff, of the Steelton High School eleven is doing everything In his power to prove he acted hastily last Saturday, is shown in a letetr sent to the Harrisburg Telegraph. Captain Dayhoff allowed Ids true sportsmanship when he apologized to Coach Ryan. The letter follows: "Dear Sir: "The story, you published in the paper about me was correct, but it was not all there. Did you not forget the cause, which prompted me to act in thut manner? You certainly are ready to jump to conclusions very quickly. Instead of helping one out of trouble, as you ihould. .vou put them as far back as possible. "I have been playhg football for the past four years, with Steelton High school, and 1 (ilways tried to play a fair, clear! game, but some how, it seems that some one is al ways finding fault (especially in Harrisburg). There is nothing 1 like to see better than a clean game of football. Desires to Ite Friendly "I have many friends on the Cen tral and Tech football teams and al ways try to treat them as such. "Last Saturday when Hees Lloyd was tackled and thrown out of bounds, he lay there seemingly hurt. I went to his assistance. Captain Lloyd is a personal friend of mine and in my estimation is the best play er on the Tech team. "While I was stooping to pick him up, Coach Kyan came up and pushed me away. That wasn't enough but he made several passes at me with his hands. Any person, with red blood in his veins, would have acted as I did, on the spur of the moment. "Forgetting that I was a gentle man, I struck Mr. Ryan in the mouth and knocked him down. The moment after I was very sorry that 1 had act ed in such a rude manner. After the crowd had been disbursed we con tinued the twenty-four-minute quar ter. Makes Apology "When the whistle blew for the first half I sought Coach Ryan and made a public apology to him. The exact words of Mr. Ryan are as fol lows: 'lt is all right my young man, it was my fault. I should not have been so hasty in my actions.' "I suppose Mr. Ryan did not know the feeling that existed between the captains and acted that way because he thought the opposite. "If you will kindly think of a fel low's future and putting a black spot on a college career, you will not pub lish an article that about any player, not matter where he plays. "Yours sincerely, "H. O. DAYHOFF." Rabbit Season Is on; Harrisburg Hunters Out Rabbit season in Pennsylvania was cshered in to-day. From everywhere reports come that the game is plen tiful. Hunters were also many to day. Harrisburg, according to rail road ticket agents, sent no less than 300 to the fields early to-day. In addition to this number, many went by automobile, and a large number left for their favorite hunting ground yesterday. Rabbit hunters have their favorite places to hunt and there are many within a short distance of Harris burg. While it is the custom of sportsmen to get away from home as far as possible on a one-day hunt, not a few went to the field over trol ley routes. If every hunter from Harrisburg gets his day's limit of ten rabbits to-day. no less than 3,000 rabbits will come to Harrisburg to night. INSPECTED SIX SCHOOLS Blaih, Pa., Nov. I.—Ralph B. Kell, of Blain, health officer for the townships of Jackson, Toboyne and Northeast Madison, made an inspec tion according to the appointment of the State Health Department, yesterday, of the six schoolhouses in Northeast Madison Township, located at Pine Grove, Sandy Hill, Emory Green, Center Church, Upper Liberty and Lower Liberty. 7hv New IML Mssr 9° F eac/i Q&Sy&rJcT saoo —TO— New York AMD RETLR.V Sunday, November 4 BPECIII. EXCURSION TRAIN FROM I.v.A.M ! HARK I Mill! KG ;ti3s Huminelatown 3,50 Sivnlurn f&M llrrnhf} 3,57 I'almyrn 4,04 ! Annvllle 4 tit 1 I.EUANON 4 . I M-:\\ VORK I nr. I l(- ' 40 r stop on i-'luk. ItETUHSiIMi l.rave New York from foot West -Mil Street 11,50 I*. >l.. foot l.iberty Street 7.00 I*. M. smile IIH.V for nliove stations. I TleketH (owl uoln K nml return ing only on nliove Special Train ilnte of eienrxlon. Children be tween .1 unci I - yeara of nice, hnir fHre. NOVEMBER 1. 1917. pf WELLY IT ' / W coßiNrere, • John K. Tuner, president of the National League, looks for a great revival of the game after the war. lie is ho sure that baseball will pay big dividends that he is willing to own a baseball club. Both Buck noil and Carlisle Indians arc doing extra work in preparation for th<> game at Lewlsburg on Satur "ay. It is a pity the game could not have been played in this city. Coach Dunn does not Intend to let his Dickinson squad go stale. He hopes to get a game with the Indian Reserves on Saturday. Coach Harris had four teams working yesterday ill scrimmages. Willie Lucas, k Philadelphia boxer, and a clever lightweight, died yes terday as a result of an attack of double pneumonia. Lucas was well and favorably known in this city, having been here on several occa sions. He was never knocked out and had a record of 303 bouts. Manager "Billy" Mehring, of the Keystone Sporting Club, is lining up a big boxing bill for Thanksgiving :ight. It will mark the opening of the boxing season in Harrisburg and THOMAS LIPTON COVETS WINNER OF FIRST CUP Boston, Nov. I.—Sir Thomas Lip ton, four times challenger for the America's Cup, yesterday expressed a desire to purchase the schooner yacht America, which brought the cup to this country. In a cablegram to Hollis Burgess he said he had just heard that the famous racer was for sale, and asked to be informed imme diately as to the price and other par ticulars. Mr. Burgess turned 'he message over to C. H. W. Foster and Henry A. Taggart, Boston yachtmen, who recently bought the America to save her from being broken up for junk. Members of the New York Yacht Club, custodian of the America's Cup, Runners in Training at Harrisburg Academy A score of runners are out dally at the Academy under the direction of Coach Piatt preparing for the cross country run with Tech, Steelton and Central on the morning of Thanks giving. Because of the other activi ties at the up-river institution more candidates are kept from participa tion at present in this branch of sport. It is likely that a team will be picked from the following lads who will be used as a nucleus for a cross-country team: Morris Swartz, Harridon Randall, Rollin Goodfellow, Robert Stewart, William McCaleb, Samuel Fisher and Lester Sheaffer. The annual Greek-Roman outdoor track meet will be staged under the direction of Coach Piatt during Thanksgiving week, and gold medals will be awarded to the winners. A two-mile cross-country track begin ning and ending at the Academy is being used. C^=:B[^=lßl^=ll3[^==?nt==nnrx==in[==]Bl^=lß[^=lßF^=lß| | | I Used Car Department Wanted: j II Three Ford Touring I | Cars 1 VVe have orders for three Ford touring cars and one Roadster. If your car is in good con- ! 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The board of governors of the Mo tor ( lub of Harrisburg will meet to-n iff lit at club headquarters, 109 bouth Second street. Important busi ness will be considered, according: to the secretary, J. Clyde Myton. Sergeant Herman Early, of Truck Company No. 1, is home on a fur- M U i l om Camp Hancock. Manager l-ord, or the Harrisburg Independ ents, has secured Hergeant Early to referee the first basketball game. Shamokln will be -the attraction, and there will be many new features. The championship trophy and pen nant were formally presented to the Newport Baseball Association last night. Ihe Newport team won the championship of the Dauphin-Perry League. There was a big banquet In honor of the occasion and John H. Jvb> received the cup for the win ners. George W. Bogar, who pre sented the cup, was unable to be present because of Illness. .1. H. Shatter, of Linglestown, oajp tur'd the ttrst fox of -the -season yes terday. It weighed nine pounds and is a fine specimen. also are said to be anxious to pur chase the yacht, but the present owners have not announced whether they will sell. If the America remains on this side of the Atlantic, it is said she will be used either as a yacht or as a marine museum. It is understood the plan of the New York men Is to employ the vessel as a permanent committee boat for yacht races. Sir Thomas Upton Rave no indi cation as to what use he would make of the boat if he secured it, hut yachting men thought he might want the old racer for a pleasure vacht here when racing is resumed after the war. Bowling Has Shine Ball; Found in Minneapolis Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 1. —The shine ball, which has been causing considerable talk In major league baseball circuits, has reached Minne apolis, not in baseball, but in bowl ing. Ted Bergeson and A 1 Olson, members of a local league team, are the perpetrators of the trick a la Eddie Cicotte, of the White Sox. Scouts of some of the other teams report that the two experts were seen using mlneralities in a practice game that did not come up to the league rules. . The star pin getters are reported to have asked that the lights be turned off. After careful observa tion the scouts reported that the mtn- w eralitles used were very smooth and shiny, and looked as if they had been prepared in some way to slide easily through the pins, causing a new ac tion of the maple sticks.