STEELTON SQUAD LOOKS LIKE CHAMPIONSHIP AGGREGATION GREYSTOCKS COMING CAGE CHAMPIONS HERE SATURDAY Greystock Five to Meet Inde pendents on Auditorium Floor Greystock, the world champions, i will be the attraction at Chestnut j *' Street Auditorium Saturday night, j .Toe Fpgarty, who Is known through- j out the sporting world as the grand old man In basketball, will be with i the team. Greystock won the cham- ! plonsh'.p of the world when it de- I leated the Carbondale team of the I State League last season. The Quaker City five is made up of stars. The j •lineup will be given later by the i local management. Independent* Work Hard The Independents are holding daily j scrimmages in order to make a cred itable showing Saturday night. Every player came out of last Saturday , night's game in good shape and play- 1 ing true to form should make the j Greystock team hustle to keep on top. Many sporting writers concede j Greystock to be the greatest basket ball team ever gotten together and this will bring a large crowd out to the game. Everything possible will j be done to accommodate a large j crowd. Dancing will follow the game., Penn State Decides to Drop All Spring Sports State Collogv. 'Pa., Dec 20.—A1l | •spring sports will be abandoned this year at Pennsylvania State College as a result of the college authorities' decision to close the institution April "3 in order to release the undergrad uates for farm and factory work. ! Tehre will be no lacrosse, soccer, ten- j nis or outdoor track meets. Possi- j lily a few intercollegiate baseball j games may be played early in April before the college term ends. Announcement to this effect was ; made to-day by R. H. Smith, gradu- i nte manager of athletics. He said that Penn State's basketball and; wrestling schedules would be carried j out as originally planned during the • winter, but that interclass track and ; i ross-country activities would take ! the place of outdoor intercollegiate ■ meets for the cinder-path men. Ten- j lative plans have been made for) State's track me to participate in one or two indoor contests this win- j ter. Alexander Wants Divvy; Asks Half Price Paid Chicago, Dec. 20. —Grover 'er, the star pitcher purchased by llie Chicago Nationals from Philadel phia, stated that he thought SIO,OOO Aould be his fair share of the pur chase price paid Philadelphia, and he Jill ought the latter club should pay it. "I'm not making' any threats," said JUexander, "but I think the public >hould know the situation. Seven ears ago Philadelphia paid 5750 for me. They sold me for $50,000. Hard work brought about the boom in my Ftock and the man who did the work ought to get some of it." Alexander said he expected to leave * for his home at St. Paul, Neb., to night. He has not signed a contract ■with Chicago. Bull" Durham will cheer up Yankee Prisoners! (FROM THE CHICAGO EXAMINER, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917) \A/ASHINGTON, Sept. 19th —lf Germany takes any Yankee boys j ▼ ▼ prisoners they will not have to exist on German prison rations. The Red Cross has arranged to forward to each prisoner a . _ package containing from nine to ten pounds of food j three times each fortnight. ' (* J The package will contain a scientifically prepared ration sufficient r\ \ jT' P I to sustain inactive men in good health, including rice, sugar, dried beef, I 1 \ pork and beans, evaporated milk, coffee, chocolate, jam, soap and "the \ makings"— two packages of tobacco with papers. I y And the tobacco specified for the Red Cross Food Kit is GENUINE ( BULL DURHAM TOBACCO I A Suggestion V x P e Smokers J It /) Guaranteed by tf// yf tobaccc JcZjP' it it it it .it it it it it it it it it * A THURSDAY EVENING, "KRIS KRINGLE" PLANS TO VISIT TECH HIGH SCHOOL; WILL DISTRIBUTE SWEATERS One of tlie biggest features of the Christmas celebration at Tech to morrow will be the awarding of let ters, sweaters and football fobs to the members of the first and second teams of the Technical High school. Old Kris Kringle Is scheduled to hand out the honors to the members of the first and second football squads. Because of the victories over the Central first and second teams, gold football fobs will be given to the first team members, while silver fobs go to the second string players. In addition. Captain Lloyd, Brough. Frock, Essig, and Manager Holland, who will graduate, were also pre sented with sweaters. The offer of football fobs is a standing one and they are given to teams that are fP, Craniland-Rice Copyright, ItZT, Tim Tribune Association CNe York Tribune . An All-Time All-Star Team NO. 6—THIRD BASE From the days of Williamson, Jerry Denny and Sutton, over thirty years ago. great third basemen have only appeared at widely separated intervals. There have been fewer great third basemen in baseball than at any other position, for there have been periods when five or sis years would pass without an undoubted star. THE MAIX COMBATANTS Williamson, Denny and Sutton were all stars. So was Nash, who was a brilliant. But we come to the main battle line when we start with John J. Mc- Graw and range on through the periods of Jimmy Collins, Tommy Leach, Bill Bradley and Arthur Devlin. The man to be picked should come from this group, for they carried a greater amount of third basing value than any of the others, before or since, although Herzog, played at third regularly, would have soon fought his way into this illustrious group. Tommy Leach, of Pittsburgh: Bill Bradley, of Cleveland, and Arthur Devlin, of the Giants, were all really great third basemen. They could hit and field, throw and run, block hard smashes, or come in on slow bunts. Bradley was the most spectacular, a third base marvel at fielding, but of no greater club value than Leach or Devlin. But we doubt—and this doubt was confirmed by others—that any one of the trio quite came up to McGraw or Collins, who lejid the parade. JOHN McGRAW VS. JIMMY COLLIN'S McGraw, upon attack, was the greatest of them all around third. As a member of the old Oriole cast he was a great hitter, a fine bunter and a star base runner. a It ifc needless to add that he was also a~iard fighter. So we won't add it. He was also a first class infielder, but in this department his play fell below that of Collins. Collins was something more, than the most graceful of all third base men and the most effective. He was also an exceptionally stout athlete at bat. His average here doesn't quite range with that of McGraw's, but he was good enough to carve out a .330 or a .340 clip and hold it over a long route. When it came to infield play at third he certainly had no superior, for he not only had no weakness here, but was in addition an alert, resourceful workman who could take good care of any detail sent his way. Collins was a marvel, and a marvel over a long stretch. He and Bill Bradley were the two third basemen who carried the greatest combination of ability and grace. Collins was the star member of Boston's two National League champions in 1897 and 1898. He was also a star member of Boston's two American League champions in 1903 and 1904. He proved his greatness in two leagues. So taking his combined fielding and batting ability against that of McGraw and Collins wins the place. McGraw was a trifle his superior on attack, but as a fielder there was no great comparison, Collins leading by a number of strides. liable to trim Central. The 1914 .'eleven was the only other team to receive the trophies. Will Wear Fobs 1 ; Those receiving the letter and fob I' are: Captain "Ted" Lloyd, "Nig" . Ebner, "Hen" Kohlman, "Butch" I Essig, "Hap" Frank, "Red" Brough, "Jim" Peifer, "Fat" Lauster, "Jaw.'i" Arnold, "Jerry" Frock, "Vic" Bihl, ■ "11111" Hoerner, "Bud" Lingle, "Coo- I coo" Beck, "Doughnuts" Wilsbach, > and Manager "Scrunts" Holland. >1 The second team members to get i the "T H S" are"Dutch"Miller, "Er ., nie" Bachman, J. Beck, George Wei , i gel, Johnson, F. Beck, Gladfejter, • Connor, Boyer, Heagy, Hinkle, W. ' Keane, Garrett and Assistant Man 1, agers "Bill" Fortna and "Bert" • Hahn. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH STEELTON SQLAD DOWN TO WORK Have Hard Schedule This Season, Opening January 4 at Middletown With the election of Lee Coleman to captain the Steelton High school basketball team for the coming sea son, practice has gone forth in earn est for the opening game that will be played at Middletown January 4. Since no coach has as yet been se lected, Captain Coleman is in charge of the squad. Faculty Director Jo seph Malin left the institution yes terday to'enter the National Army. Four lads remain from last year's team around which team work will be built. There is but one vacancy at forward, and the fight has been narrowed down until W. Weuschinski and Porr remain as the most likely candidates with the latter having the advantage. Captain Coleman at for ward, McCauley at center, and Mor rett and Paul AVeusMiinski at guard are the veterans. Practices are held daily in Felton Hall. Hard Schedule A schedule of twenty contests has been arranged extending through three months. Steelton hopes to show fast form in the Central Penn sylvania League, and will make a bid for the honors. The following schedule will be played: January 4, Middletown, away; January 5, Allentown at home; Jan uary 11, Middletown at home; Janu ary 12, open; January 18, York, away; January 25, Harrisburg Cen tral at home; February 1, Lebanon, away: February 2, Shippensburg Normal, away; February )Z, Harris burg Tech at homo; February 15, Lebanon at home; February 16, Reading at home; February 22, Lan caster, away, February 27, York at home; March 1, Tech, away; March 8, Reading, away; March 9, Allen town, away; March 15, Harrisburg Central, Away; March 22, open; March 25. Lancaster at home; March 29, open. P. Weuschinski has been elected managed of the basketball team for the coming season. His busi ness ability promoted his teammates to select him for this work. During his term on the football and basket ball teams he has played a fast and persistent game. Wrestler Gotch Buried; Suspend Business For Time Humboldt, lowa, Dec. 20.—Hum boldt turned from its normal tasks yesterday to place in Union Cemetery here the body of Frank A. Gotch. the man whose wrestling fame brought public attention to this little city. Business paused and the school Gotch attended as a boy remained closed as the city and countryside joined in tribute to the retired world's cham pion wrestler, who died at' his home here last Sunday after a protracted illness. Governor W. L Harding was among the hundreds of personal friends of the late champion who joined in the funeral services in the Congrega tional Church. The Rev. Alexander Bennett, of Salina, Ivan., formerly in charge of the Congregational Church here and a personal friend of Gotcli's, delivered the funeral oration. The Masonic order had charge of the services. I More than 250 persons came from j Fort Dodge, lowa, abroad a special train, and nearly a hundred others were on the same train that brought Governor Harding from Des Moines. Hundreds .stood outside the church during the service, unable to gain entrance. Franklins Winners in Game With Germans In the Boyd Memorial League basketball series, the Franklins last night deflated the Germans, score 10 to 9. The game was interesting. This is a new league with four teams, last night's game being the first. The line up and summary: FRANKLINS GERMANS Williams, f. Krebler, f. Bysem, f. McFadden, f. Hager, c. Male, c. Snyder, g. Frank, g. Tousen, g. Wyant, g. .Field goals. Franklins, Snyder, 2; Williams, 4; Germans, Frank, 8. Foul goals, Franklins, 2; Germans, Krebler, 1; Frank, 1; McFadden, 1. WILLIE RITCHIE BESTS SIMLER Scranton. Pa., Dec., 20. Willie Ritchie, of Olyphant, shaded "Chick" Simler, of New York, in ten rounds here. In the semifinal Joe O'Neill, of this city, knocked out Tommy Higgins, of Bellevue, in two rounds. A constable, acting for a New York fight manager, tried to attach Sim ler's share of the receipts before the show started, only to learn that the promoters, having heard of the proposed action, had paid the fight er during the afternoon. Says Canada Gets Sugar . . Needed by Americans r B mm /IWU GLAU.S' S£B£CK£i&i Claus fcpreckles, president of the Federal Sugar Refining Company, and known nationally as an author ity on the subject of sugar, told tho Senate Committee in Washington he had promised the Food Administra tion lie would pay a certain price for raw sugar He had adhernd to the agreement, but higher prices were oflered bv foreign agents and tho supply that would have remained in this country normally went to others. He said If he could get BO gar he would reopen his refinery. HUNTER WINS IN FIGHT WITH BEAR Follows Bruin into Cave With Lighted Torch; Battle in the Open Warren, Pa., Dec. 20.—The old bear hunters who used to "chase the bears up the Big Juniata and down the Lit tle Juniata and across the millpond and into their caves where with bowie knives we slaughtered 'em," have little on Rinaldo Collins, of Ivinzua, this county, who has Just earned admission into their hall of fame. Four years ago Mr. Collins, who is 46 years old, wounded a bear which retreated into a cave above Kinzua. He crawled In and dispatched the animal. Now he has gone himself one better. While out with his dog near Kinzua he saw a bear but was too far away for a long shot. The bear retreated into a hole scarcely large enough to admit a man on liis hand and knees. Crwl Into Cave Nothing daunted, Collins seized some pine and with it as a torch crawled in. The narrow tunnel ter minated In a cave. The bear rushed the hunter as the torch was poked into the cave, and the light fell to the ground. Collins took a shot and then proceeded to crawfish out ot the aperture. He beat the bear and when the maddened animal emerged with blood pouring from its .wound Collins calmly finished it. The bear was a big one. weighing nearly ,125 pounds, and after securing help to take it Collins related the tale. It stands as the best bear story of the season in a couny where sixteen bears have been shot since the lirst snowfall. Philadelphia Boxers Help to Boost Smoke Fund; Exceptionally Strong Bill By Associated Press Philadelphia, Dec. 20. —More than' $7,000 was raised here last night atj the Philadelphia sporting editors, boxing benefit to aid the national] smoke fund for soldiers and sailors. There were nine boxing bouts in which three world champions made tlieir appearance. They were Mike O'Dowd, middleweight: Benny Leon ard, lightweight, and Pete Herman, bantamweight. Herman was adver tised to meet Benny Valger, the French fighter, but refused to meet him and boxed with Gussie Lewis, of Philadelphia, instead. The bouts re sulted as follows: Battling Murray defeated Battling Leonard; Frankie Conway defeated Joe Mendel; Joe Jeanette defeated George Christian; Benny Leonard de feated Fred Kelly; Johnny Tillman defeated Billy Ralph; Pete Herman and Gussie Lewis drew: Little P>ear defeated Young Buck Fleming; lied Dolan and Paul Doyle drew; Mike O'Dowd defeated Joe Welsh. LANGFORD TRIMS NORFOLK Denver, Col., Dec. 20.—Sam Lang ford knocked out "Kid" Norfolk, the Panama negro heavyweight, in the second of a scheduled 20- round boxing match here Monday night. Langford was the aggressor throughout. The first round was even. In the second Langford knock ed Norfolk down twice before tho knockout blow, which was a vicious left to the jaw. Norfolk took a count of seven the first time and the second time rose to his feet at the count of nine. Dr. Roller Is Winner in Wrestling Contest New York. Dee. 20.—Dr. B. F. Rol ler. of Seattle, Wash., scored the rec ord fall of the international cateh as-catch-can wrestling tournament here last night when he threw Pierre Le Beige, of Belgium, in 13 seconds with a body hold. Wladek Zbyszko, of Poland, threw Demetrius Tofalos, of Greece, in 17 minutes 54 seconds with a bridge hold and double arm lock. Ed ("Stran gler") Lewis, of Lexington. Ivy.. threw Tom Draak, of Holland, in 13 minutes 11 seconds with a head hold. Dartmouth Eleven Has Eleven Games Scheduled Hanover. N. H., Dec. 20.—The Dart mouth football schedule for 1918 was made public last night. It consists of eight games, as follows: October—s, Massachusetts Agricul tural College, at Hanover: 19, Penn State College, at Hanover: 26, Syra cuse, at New York. November—2, New Hampshire College, at Hanover; 9, University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; 16. Boston College, at Hanover; 23, Brown, at Boston. It was announcd also that in 1919 Dartmouth would play Syracuse here. Penn State at State College, Pa., and 'the University of Pennsylvania at New York. if we had not always £iven so much value in KING OSCAR CIGARS it would not now be necessary to raise the price to six cents. But we are determined to maintain the quality smokers have grown to expect thru years of honest treat ment in the time-honored name of KING OSCAR On top for twenty-six years John C, Herman & Co. Makers TRAPSHOOTING IS POPULAR SPORT Last Season Shows Record- Breaking Attendance; Many Targets Thrown By PETER P. CARNEY Editor National Sports Syndicate The second year of the trapshoot ing school on the Million Dollar Pier at the greatest of American seaside resorts —Atlantic City, N. J.—proved even more successful than the first. Six thousand and eighty-tive per sons, of which number 515 were women, visited the school and ihot over the traps In 1917, compared to 5,122 persons in 1916. In the flist year the number of women who shot were 342. The school was begun as an ex periment, the idea being to introduce trapshooting to people who were not acquainted with the sport. The school has done everything that the found ers figured it would—and more. Three thousand and sixty men who had never shot over the traps tried the sport this year, compared to 2,-' 483 novices In 1916 —a gain of 577. There were 410 women novices thin year, as against 290 last year—a gain of 120. Many Participants Those who tried the "sport allur ing" the year before strung along again and helped the figures mount upwards. There were 2,510 male and 105 female regulars on hand this year, as compared to 2,264 and F>2 last year, a gain of 246 men and 1)3 women. Nine hundred and fifty eight more people shot over the traps and either hit or missed the targets that fell into the Atlantic Ocean this year than last. The tar gets thrown were 332,600 —a gain of 83,575 over the first season. September was the biggest month for the school, with 1,288 people, l'or which 62,375 targets were thrown. Attendance by Months The attendance in the other months: April, 690: May, 497; June, 815; July, 1,025; August, 1,000; Oc tober, 168; November, 302. The tar gets thrown were: April, 39,7 •5; May, 25,937; June, 48,913; July, 52,- 400: August, 50,100; October, 25, * 785; November, 27,325. The best score of 100 targets was made by Harry Harrison, of Roches ter, N. Y. He broke 99. This score was also made the year before by Harton Pardee and Fred Plum, both of Atlantic City. Mrs. Belle G. Earle, of New York, broke 96 each year and contributed the highest score made by a woman. Dr. M. C. Bowel's, of New York, averaged 85 per cent, lor 1,000 targets in October, the best average for that number of targets. I The school will begin its third I year in April, 1918. WESTERN UNION MUST PAY Springfield, 111., Dec. 20. —A judg ment of >2,000 against the Western Unicn Telegraph Company in favor of John P. Pfiester, former pitcher of the Chicago Nationals, was sus tained by the Illinois Supreme Court. Pfiester alleged that a telegram sent by him addressed to the Milwaukee Club of the American Association was never delivered, and as a result he lost a place as pitcher on the latter team. MAY ABANDON YACHT RACES New York, Dec. 20.—When the an nual election of officers of the New York Yacht Club Is held to-morrow night, It Is expected that formal action will be taken on the question of yacht races during the war. Sen timent among the leading officials and members of the club ts rsaid to be against holding races as a club, although this will not prevent in dividual members from competing with any other club. "BCD" WEISER LOST TO PHILS Sliamokin, Pa., Dec. 20. The Phillies are doomed to lose Harry ("Bud") Weiser. Weiser, who reg istered at his home here last June for military draft, is a first-class legistrant and expects to be among the first to be called under tHe new svstem of conscription. Weiser led the New York State League in bat ting last season as a member of the Wilkes-Barre team, and had been recalled by the Phillies. GARNETS TO PLAY HERSHEY The Harrisburg Garnets will play the Hershey Men's Club at Hershey Friday night. December 21. The Garnets are hoping to break the string of victories of the Hershey five. This game promises to be a fast game, as the Hershey club is represented with the best five in the history of the club. The Garnets will take a strong lineup to Hershey, their players in cluding Dayhoit and Morrett, of the Steelton High. The Garnets are a newly-organized team and would like to hear from all strong out-of-town teams. Following the trip to Her shey they will be idle until January 4, 1918, when' they will play the strong Lancaster five at Lancaster. All managers wishing to get a game with the Garnets should com nvunicate with their manager, Er nest K. Shoeman, 2fi24 North Sixth street, Harrisburg, Pa. DECEMBER 20, 1917. fWDIXY'J 1 9 W CORNER,. In the elecUon of P. Weuschinski' as manager und Coleman as cap-1 tain, basketball at Steelton High is in good hands. This year's team promises to be pust. as prominent as the Steelton football eleven. American League flooding averages' show good work by all teams last season. Eddie Collins, of course, is j prominent, but there are others and the stars were not all on the first! division teams. An interesting basketball contest isi promised to-night at St. Paul's gym- j nasium. Tarsus will clash with the i Sons of Rest team. The latter is' made up of last season's Tecji stars. ! Unless there is a cut in high salar- ! ies the Penn State Basketball Lea- i gue will have to quit. 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