CENTRAL HIGH FOOTBALL PLAYERS DO THEIR BIT BY CUTTING OUT BANQUET CENTRAL HIGH CUTS BANQUET Money to Be Turned Over to American Red Cross Society Believing that by doing so they • could perform a du#l service to their country the Central football squad unanimously decided to cut out the annual football banquet. They will contribute the money saved to the American Red Cross Society. By do ing this the boys feel they are do ing their "bit" in conserving food and also helping to finance the work of the society that is doing great things. Giving up this banquet 15 no Kmall sacrifice for the boys, every one of whom has been looking for ward to this event since the begin ning of the season. Players on Squad The football banquet has been an annual event at Central for the past several years. The squad is as fol lows: Noble Frank, Ben Wolfe. Art Fields, Orpheus Page, Carlton Goodiel, Elmer Herring, Herman Gohn, Paul Boeder, Huge Rose, Harry Good, John Shoemaker, Wil l>am Rodgers, Kenneth Wingeard, Seymour Nissley, Arthur Gardner, Blair Smith, Jay Stoll, John Mc 'aleb, Earl Wolfe, Arthur West, Hteve Bolan, Mell McCllntock, Bud Harry Fluss, Earl Feist, John Neffe, Thomas Caldwell, Wil liam Mcßride, Ross Hoffman, Albert Rinkenbach, Armon Compton, Vance Butler, Wilmer King. Earl KtaufCer, John Nye and Winston Romig. letters will be presented to the varsity and to the scrubs to-day iind all senior varsity men will be given sweaters. No Cash For Alexander; - Old Contract Turned Over New York, Dec. 21.—Grover Alex ander. former star pitcher for the Philadelphia National League Clubj recently sold to the Chicago Na tionals with Catcher Killifer for $50,000, will receive no part of the purchase money, according to Pres ident William Baker, of the Phila delphia Club. "If Alexander wants any bonus he. must look to it from President Weeghman, of Chicago," said Baker here last night. "I see no reason why we should turn any of the money received for Alexander over to that player. "At a matter of fact, there is no need of Alexander signing a new contract with Chicago. We have as signed his contract, which covers the j-eason 1918 and 1919, over to the <'hi<::go Club. By the provisions of th" new contracts signed by players last spring the v agreed to go to whatever club they are sent, wheth er major or minor, at the same or smaller salary." WORK Strong, Sturdy, SHOES Long-Wearing $250 $ $350 POSITIVELY the A strongest, best and \ I kit / \ longest wearing work \ KgJ / I shoe for all •re un d f f/\ For men who work in shops, mines, mills, railroads Fanners, If Drivers, etc. n Try a pair to-day, I .$4 America'i and "Save A Dollar" I Greateit and more. n with 183 and 488. took part in twenty games, a Close third with an average of 1.79. Cicotte did more twirling than any other American League. The records show he pitched a total of 340 in nings and served 1,215 batsmen. Walter Johnson holds the record of strikeouts in 1917. He fanned 185 men. Jim Bagby passed out more hits than any other pitcher, while Jim Shaw, of Washington, sent more men to first on balls. Opposing batsmen registered 277 hits off the Cleveland twirler. The grand total of 123 bases on balls were distributed by Shaw during the season. fP, GrdniJsndJUce Copyright, HI 7. Tb# Tribune Association Turk Trlbtmak. An All-Time All-Star Team NO. 7.—THE OUTFIELD thlck°t.rof,f f.T® !? overwl ?elming. Great outfielders have grown in v? from the games drawn down through the year just closed, iurv r J"® markable Part is that when we offered our selection to the seining vote managers and veteran scribes there was hardly a dis . T he verdict was practically unanimous, full proof that tlietrio cnlpcteri had earnetf their right to live at the crest. ° selected J THE LONG PARADE .invi p f ra T d ® of outfielding stars is a mighty one. It goes far back to the days of A. J. Reach. Paul Hinep and James O'Rourke ° ■ , JJmmy McAleer, one of the greatest fielding stars ever known „ * nK cent 'P ede on defense. And then King Kelly It comes wini!r*r I B i C v e 2Jinent stars as Fred Clarke, Billy Hamilton, Joe Keliv Bi LIT 6 , T' R Donlin, Hugh Duffy, ,Ed Delehanty, Jimmy Sheckard Bill Lange, Jess Burkett and countless others. ™' n~iiv, se t ms almost impossible to leave out such men as Mike Kelly and Ed Delehanty or men like Joe Kelley and Bill Lange. But since only three can be picked, these three must prove their worth. _ T NUMBER ONE in JESSES ZV"' A man " ho C " 1 h " '• A CAN LEND HIS '® A B UE at hat in ten out of eleven season* runs reC ° rd '° r base h,ta and runs BCorcd in a Well, the name Ty Cobb answers the rest of it. „ Col J b ' a fielder . isn't the greatest of the lot in defensive play But he aboveill rlva^y e ' far-ranging superiority on attack lifts him well V ra^ S ;vf Peed ; n fr e ? nd rare natural ability, he overtops the heap. Holder outfield what Wagner is to the infield —the Sceptre NUMBER TWO The man who gives Cobb the hardest battle is Tris Speaker. Veteran observers like Clarke Griffith all say that Speaker is the greatest defensive outlielder baseball has ever exploited. There have been others as fast. There have been a few others who could gro as far lor a ball. There have been others who could throw as well. But there has been no other who could do all these things as well, and who in addition had the uncanny knack of playing each batsman—who seemed to drift like a shadow from one spot to another—and always be in the right place. We have seen Speaker on thre.successive batsmen play right center, left centr and then close in back of second place—gauging each man to a few vards .Speaker can cover more ground before a ball Is pitched than any other man. And If he guesses incorrectly, which ho seldom does, he can co a mile to retrieve his error in judgment. As an outfielder he handles a ground ball with the ability of a crack innelder. And to this impressive, defensive strength must be added the fact that he is a powerful hitter, not only a normal .350 man, but one who can tear the hide off the ball for extra bases. Speaker is a remarkable offensive and defensive combination, and there are any number who rank him for all around value on a par with Cobb. NUMBER THREE Mike Kelly and Joe Kelley—Jimmy Sheckard and Fred Clarke the slugging Delehanty—the rare Bill Lange—Billy Hamilton. The remaining list Is a great one, but how can wee Willie Keeler be put aside? Ask Joe Kelley, or John McGraw, or others who played with Keeler and who remember his work. Keeler was one of the most scientific batsmen that ever chopped a timely single over third or first. For thirteen years he batted well above .300, at times moving up to a .400 range. His average for all time is almost as high as Cobb's. And Keeler was also a great defensive outfielder, a fine ground coverer —a great thrower—a star in every department of play. Mike Kelly was a marvel, more of an all around sensation, but those who watched the work of both figure Keeler on top for outfield worth. So the combination stands—Cobb, Speaker, Keeler. Who can name a hetter man? TO-MORROW—THE ROUND-UP Yal£ Plans Winter Sports ; Little Training Needed New Haven, Conn., Dec. 21. Yale's reorganization of its athletic committee, or its athletic board of control, as it Is technically known, will not take place until after the holiday vacation. Practically no members, graduate or undergraduate, were left of the committee a month after war was declared, and Prof. Robert Corwin, of the Yale faculty, chairman of the council, has since been in executive charge of athletics. Three under graduates have just been appointed to the board of control, J. Woolley, Rufus Hyatt and Robert Blair. Wool ley and Blair are captairis of the Of ficers Reserve Training Crops and are Yale News editors. Hyatt is cap tain of the crew and manager of the basketball association. It has been decided that Yale's winter sports shall be continued be cause, as the Alumni Weekly puts ltt, they are "spontaneous" and require no extensive preparation, like weeks of football or baseball training or of rowing. The winter sports, fencing, box ing, wrestling, swimming, water polo, basketball and hockey, require little time and not as protracted training ' do the major spring sports. 1 The board of control, when reor ganized, will decide the fate of the spring sports / HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JOE FOGARTY ON GREYSTOCK TEAM Will Play Forward in Game With Independents Satur day Night; New Referee Joe Fogarty, manager of the Grey stock team which appears here Sat urday will have his regular line-up. Joe himself will play one of the for ward positions, Zahn will play op posite hitn. Jack Lawrence, the star center of the Eastern League last winter, will be pivot man. Bilson, the leading guard of the league, will play one of the guard positions. Bil son during last season had the least number of goals thrown on him in the league and with Joe Campbell his running mate for the other guard position, makes one of the strongest basketball pair ever together. The Greystock team took the lead in the Eastern League early last sea son and were never in any great dan ger of loosing their lead. The In dependents are practicing hard to make a creditable showing Satur day. The one great difficulty the Inde pendent management has been hav ing this season is with referejs, but this has been overcome. "Clint" White was signed to toss the ball the rest of the season. "Clint" is on the college board of referees and as no games appear on Saturdays he will officiate for the local tossers. Dancing will follow the game. The lineup: Greystock. Harrisburg. Fogarty, f. N. Ford, f. Zahn, f. McCord, f. Lawrence, c. Sourbieivc. Campbell, g. G. Ford, g. Bilson, g. McConnell, g. LOSE FIRST GAME The Commonwealth five last night met with their first defeat. The Weaver A. C. won, score 38,t0 23. Felker'of the Weaver team, was thei star. The game was fast and inter esting. 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When the Germans interned by the United States at Fort McPhe son, Ga., return to Germany after the war they will have a thorough in demanding of the American game of baseball, and perhaps will tca( it to the citizens of what may then be the German Republic. WILLARD QUITS CIRCUS BUSINESS Will Dispose of His Tent Out fit; Anxious to Fight Chicago, Dec. 21. —Jess Willard, looking in better condition that In several years, announced to-night that he is done with the circus life and will not strike the sawdust trail another year. He is going to dispose of all of his circus holdings which are now located at Jacksonville, Pla. "I don't know what I'll do next season," says the big fellow, "but I'll drop into soir.e line or other. I'm not going to loaf." This was the day set by Mike Col lins to declare Fred Fulton heavy weight champion if Jess didn't come to bat, but the champion is on the job. Heady to Talk nawinrss "You can tell Fearless Fred I am here and ready to talk business. I'm prepared to fight anybody that thinks he has a chance. I think I'm the best heavyweight and if I'm not I want to find out about it. I'll consider any propositions. Fearless Fred looks as good to me as any of them." Willard doesn't want to fight be fore spring as he says he doesn't know of a building big enough to put on the sort of a bout he wishes to stage. "I want to put on a monster bout for the Red Cross and in order to ac commodate the crowds I would want to assemble, I think it would be nec essary to stage the bout In an outdoor arena, or possibly in some of the big ballparks. "I don't care so much for the 20- round stuff so this match will have to be a 10-round affair. Just as much money can be realized from a short bcut. "I'm in good shape; haven't been down to weight so well in a long time. I'm twenty-two pounds lighter than I was a year ago and I'm still the champion and doing business at the old stand." CAMP FIRE GIRLS' AVAR CHEST GRO\} T S New York, Dec. 21.—The Camp Fire Girls started a few months ago to raise among themselves $50,000 as a war chest to carry on the vari ous forms of war work which liave made the food administration and several state and national govern ment departments recognize them as a factor in the country's organiza tion for war, and which caused Pres ident Wilson to accept the honorary presidency of. the Camp Fire Girls. Fifty thousand dollars is a lot of money for even a hundred thou sand girls to raise when they do it all themselves, but the war chest is growing weekly. The Largest Assortment of Silk Neckwear in the city Consylman & Co. 1117 N. 3rd St. Announcing The Oriental Cabaret 435 Market Street "The Chocolate Drops'' 8 P. M. to 12 Music Singing Pancingj CWJ j Reading After Franchise in Basketball League Reading, Deo. 21.—Albert Ber liner, of this city, who owned the Reading Eastern League Basketball Club for several years, announced that he is negotiating for the pur chase of the Hazleton franchise of the Pennsylvania State League and will attend the special meeting of the Pennsylvania League at Wilkes- Berre, on Sunday afternoon. An other former Eastern League mag nate Ik after the Providence team to transfer the franchise to Allen town, which has been eager for pro fessional basketball for several year. Berliner has already signed "Boo" Newman, Maurice Tome and Frankel, a trio from this season's Trenton Eastern League team, and George Morris, the veteran guard of the Bears, and is making a stren uous effort to land Roy Steele, the former Camden star forward, and Jack Lawrence, the pivot man of last season's champion Greystock five. Berliner has secured the arm ory, the scene of all past Eastern League contests, and the local cage fans are showing great enthusiasm THE HUB'S ROUSING WAR TIME SALE of Men's and Boys' Clothing With gift giving at its lop notch why not buy a gift for your self A Suit or an Overcoat is the best gift for a man or a boy. And right now among our Rousing War-Time Sale of high grade clothes is the best time to buy the savings are BIG and real Winter starts to-day. If you are not in need of a Suit or an Overcoat at present you will practice the strictest kind of economy in buying now for next season's need, when prices are bound to be considerably higher and many of the present fabrics will not be obtainable. Heed this economy call, men, by taking advantage of these reduced prices NOW F Men's and Young Men's SIB.OO dj-l A ' Suits and Overcoats Reduced to *P 3 Men's and Young Men's $20.00 dj*l f* 'TC Suits and Overcoats Reduced to *P lO# • O Men's and Young Men's $25.00 dJOA *7CL Suits and Overcoats Reduced to Y*"* • Men's and Young Men's $30.00 djo A Suits and Overcoats Reduced to *P / O Men's and Young Men's $35.00 4JOQ 7C Suits and Overcoats Reduced to / O Boys' Suits and Mackinaws Reduced Boys' $5.00, Suits at $4.25 Boys' $lO Suits at $7.75 Boys' $7.50 Suits at $5.75 Boys' $6.50 and $7.50 Mackinaws, $5.00 TRe 4gfc Hub Nachman & Hirsh Prop's. DECEMBER 21, 1917. j W CORjN'ER^ Eight minor leagues according to reports will start tha baseball sea son next ear. The Blue Ridge Is in cluded in the list. If the Interna tionals and New York State Leagues want to get into the game a complete reorganization will be necessary. Christy Mathewson, manager of the Cincinnati Reds, will eat his Christmas dinner in his home town, Factoryville. He lias , been busy get ting together some promising talent for the Reds lineup next season. Carl Morris says he is through with the ring game. He claims that Jess Willard and Matt Hinkle have hounded him out of the ring and will not let him fight. Otto Knabe, former Phillie second baseman, has landed with the Chi cago Nationals for next season. Last summer Knabe was player manager of the Richmond Internationals, but [With that league seemingly out of business, Knabe hastened to land himself a meal ticket for the hot summer days. Weeghman took a lik ins to Otto in the Federal League ( days, when Knabe managed the Bal timore club. He is scheduled for a role with the Cubs similar to that over the announcement of Pennsyl vania State League basketball being brought to this city. TARSUS FTVE WINNERS The Tarsus live last night won over the Sons of -Rest team, score 20 to lt>. The game was played in St. Paul's gymnasium. Lyter and Lutz played a strong defensive game ano were Tarsus stars and Cahill playeu best for the Sons. BUCKNELL AWARDS LETTERS Lewisburg, Dec. 21.—Before the closing of the college for holidays this week, the Bucknell Athletic Board awarded the football athletic •'B" to the following players: Cap tain Newcombe, Hall, Cline, Smith, Elliott, Boswell, Freeble, Weddell,, Spotts, Morrison, Bortz, Kostos, Lew- Is, Brandt, Leas, Gerliart and Wargo. The Largest Assortment of Silk Neckwear in the city Consylman & Co. 1117 N. 3rd St. 25 occupied by Kid Gleason with the White Sox. Bobby Byrne, released by the Phillies last summer after playing ten consecutive years in the National League, will be in the majors again next summer. Byrne has received of fers from two American and one Na tional League clubs for 191 S. Bobby Is only 32, and is also beyond the present draft age limit. Byrne will he the third veteran comeback, us Leifield, aged 34, has signed with the Browns, and Nap Lajole, aged 4 2, has signed with the Red Sox.. "Why. I'm a youngster compared to those boys," remarked Byrne the other day. One of the comedies of war ts that. Mike Gibbons may soon be called upon to give boxing Instruction to Mike O'Dowd. Both boys hail from St.* Paul. O'Dowd is recognized gen erally as middleweight champion, while Gibbons is a middleweight challenger, yet the challenger may be asked to teach the rudiments of boxing to the champion of the 158- pound performers. Gibbons is now boxing instructor p.t Camp Dodge. O'Dowd, caught by the draft, is soon to report as a private at Camp Dodge probably about January 8. The two Mikes are great rivals, and Minne sota ring fans are already wonder ing with what grace O'Dowd will take orders from Gibbons. EX-SHISRIFF FAGLKY DDES Sunbury. Pa., Dec. 21. —George K. Fagley, of Mount Carmel, sheriff of Northumberland county from 1890 to 189 8, died yesterday. M&ntjfflos* Authorised dealer* to gunrnßtec tItCNC Lisle and Silk Socks 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c Hose For Ladies Consylman & Co. 1117 N. 3rd St. —/ • i Norris Candies 1-lb., 2-lb. Boxes GORGAS 10 X. Third St. Pennn. Station