LOCAL ANGLERS PREPARE FOR BUSY TROUT SEASON-PENNSY SHOOTERS LOSE ,READING TEAM STARTS SEASON ATMERCERSBURG Local Players Put Up Craclc erjack Game in Spite of No Practice To the Philadelphia and Reading railway baseball teams belong 1 honors for being first in the field. This ag gregation opened at Mcrcersburg on Saturday, losing' by a score of 5 to 4. Notwithstanding that tup local team bad no practice, Mercersburg found their opponents a hard team to beat. The Reading boys lacked only in timely stick work. Manager John son started the season with a time -X three-bagger. H pitched in old time form, fanning five hatters. Geary put up a good game at third. Tha score follows: HAItRISBURG P. & R. AB. R. H. O. A. E. Sipo, 3b 3 0 1 2 1 1 Ehling, If 4 0 1 0 0 0 Geary, ss 4 1 1 3 1-1 Thompson, cf .... 4 1 2 1 0 0 Walters, lb 3 0 0 7 1 0 Tleiney, rf ....... 2 0 0 0 0 1 Winters, rf 0 0 <) 0 0 0 Williams, 2b 2 0 0 1 2 0 Peters, c 2 1 0 5 1 0 Johnson, p 3 12 15 0 Totals .. 27 4 7 20 11 3 MERCERSBURG AB. R. H. O. A. Br Mahaffy, ef 4 2 3 0 0 0 Gorman, 3b 4 1 1 1 1 o Y Jenkins, S9 4 1 1 8 1 0 McNamara, lb 4 1 1 5 1 1 Crossman, . c 3 0 1 10 3 0 Wittmar, rf 2 0 0 1 0 0 Hench, If 3 0 0 0 0 0 Wilson, 2b 3 0 1 0 1 1 Power, p ... 2 0 0 1 2 0. Stern, p 1 0 0 0 0 0 j Totals 30 5 8 21 9 2 Harrisburg 2 1 0 0 0 1 o—4 j Mercersburg 000004 I—s Three-base hits, Johnson, McNa mara. Two-base hits, Thompson, Jenkins. Base on balls, Bower, 3. Struck out, by Bower, 9; by Johnson, 5. Umpire, Fike. Time, 1.30. The game was called at the end of tlie seventh to allow the visitors to catch a train. Tarsus Club Plans For Annual School Banquet The Tarsus school tossers will re- I cfcive tHelr letters Thursday night at a banquet to be given at the Uni- j versity Club, Front and Market! streets. This team won a big nia- j jority of games this season. Ad dresses will be made by local sport j writers, the Rev. X'loyd Appletoiv and Harry long, the popular manager. | The following will be presented | with T's by W. D. Bottgenbach for j their season's work Paul Books, Wilbur Meek, Herman Laughery, James Holahan, Harry Long and John Schreadly, for basketball; Frank Fetrow, Leroy Schreadly, Howard Amole, James Holahan and Wilbur Meek, for football. At the beginning of this season the I teams were handicapped by the loss of six men who joined the different branches of Government service. These men were: Joseph Eutz, Glen Fleck, Raymond Hall, Edgar Stew ard, James Lane and James Cassett. With all these obstanctes, the Tar sus basketball team proved to be one of the fastest teams In this section of the state by winning thirteen out j cf twenty games. Sportwriters Receive Promotion in Artillery \ew York, April I.—Walter Trum- j bull and Grantland Rice, woll-known New York sport writers, are now j wearing the silver bar, having just< been promoted to the rank of first j lieutenant in the One Hundred and Fifteenth Field Artillery at Camp | Sevier, Greenville, S. C. Lieutenants] Trumbull and Rice heard "The Call" so insistently last December that both enlisted as privates and were quickly advanced to second lieuten ants. They have- now gone higher by dint of hard work and sheer merit. GAlt NETS WIN FIRST GAME j The Garnet baseball team defeated I the Summit Street team Saturday | afternoon in a game of baseball by i a score of IE to 2. Glpple, Reisch and j Kautz, of the Summit Street team.! were star players. Most of the Sum- ; mit Street nine, did exceptionally! tine work. I What Boxing Brought to One Physical Wreck j From a physical wreck at 209 ' pounds, to physical fitness at 180 L pounds, was the transformation of 1 Dr. W. J. Crocker within the short i space of seven months. Holding a professor'ts chair In the ' veterinary chair of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Crocker, though he weighed 209, broke down completely last July under the strain of his literary efforts and research work. His physicians advised him that they could not aid him and he set out to win back his health by physical exercise, appointing Jack O'Rrien his director. To-day Dr. Crocker, 32 years of age, and more than six feet tall, weighs 180 pounds and not only has regained his health, but has become an adept boxer, to which he attributes his present health, j that he plans to contest for the highest honor in amateur boxing —the national heavyweight titlo. Get That LAWN MOWER Ready You'll need it soon—bring it in and let us make the repairs— NOW and you will have it in first-class condition when you need it. FEDERAL MACHINE SHOD Cranberry St.—Near Court All Kinds of Machinery Repaired. I MONDAY EVENING, SNOODLES—SIew Tries to Recruit a New Piece of Artillery. (§§RR\| • OS\N •' /TUESE \ : ( HTRT ) K —JL / p 0 NT LET \ If, LOCAL SHOOTERS WINOVERP.R.R. 11. B. Shoop Is High Gun in First Match in Team Series Pennsylvania railroad shooters lost the first team match Saturday In the I series with members of Harrisburg Sportsmen's Association. The victors scored 233 out of a possible 250, the Pennsy shooters running up a total of 211. Harry B. Shoop was high man with a total of 49. Lockwood B. Worden was second with 47. An in teresting sweepstake match follow ed. E. W. Shank, J. G. Martin and E. B. Worden having high scores and long runs. The scores of the team shoot follows: Fifty-Bird Match Harrisburg— Worden 23 24 47 Martin 24 22 40 Shoot 24 25 49 Roberts 23 2 3 46 Freelajid 23 22 45 Total 233 Did not qualify, Rotjirock, 28; Wilson, 39; Heiges, 38; E. W. Shank, 46, (not entered in team race). P R. R.— <%, Sheaffer 24 2 2 46 Brown 23 20 43 Jones . . 21 23 4 1 Miller 20 21 4 1 Moore 21 16 37 Total 211 Pennsy Shooter Hanks Up New Railroad Record Philadelphia, April I.—With a total breakage of 428 targets out of 450, Harry H. Sloan, ,of the Penn sylvania Railroad Gun Club, not only won the shooting championship of the Philadelphia Trap Shooters' League Saturday, but as well broke the record held by Harry B. Fisher, of the Clearview Gun Club, who In the 1915-16 race, totaled 421 out of 450. These records were compiled on nine shoots. Only one competitor gave Sloan cause for worry in 'the final shoot yesterday. That marksman was Joe Ben McHugh, of the Wilmington club, and a wonderful shot on clay pigeons. When the men faced the field yesterday at different grounds Sloan had a 4-target advantage over McHugh, and while McHugh turn ed in a4B score and Sloan a 47t the railroad crack had enough margin left to win the championship by 3 birds. McHugh's total of 425 for 9 shoots also exceeded tfle mark Fisher made. Sloan and McHugh tied for the league prize offered for the lush to tal made on fire shoots. Every league gunner has the privilege of picking his five highest scores made during the season to be eligible for this prize, but Sioah and McHugh far outclassed the field on this total. Each man broke 241 out of his "50, which equals the record George S. McCarty made in the 1914-15 race, when shooting for Camden he shat tered the same number in five shoots. Brand Baseball Managers as Slackers of Worst Brand \Ynliin|coii, April 1. —"Slackers of the worst brand," was the stamp plac ed by Charles Pack, presi dent of the National War Garden Commission, upon organized baseball managers who are to have decid ed to start their games an hour later under the daylight saving plan. When daylight saving games comes Into effect the baseball game that usually starts at 3 o'clock will really start at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and by advancing the time one hour, and having the games start at 4 o'clock, they really would start at 3 o'clock, as before. Mr. Pack, who advocated the day light saving measure in order to give men and women more time to work In gardens, is the first to take a shot at the sports promoters who may take advantage of the bill. "If baseball men move forward the hour of starting games it may mean extra money In the box office, but it is certainly a violation of the spirit of the law," he said last night. "The daylight saving Jaw was intended to increase dayligl™ usrfulness In war work and was not intended to give extra hours for recreation. 1 hope that the move on the part of the base ball clubs to take advantage of the law for their own profit, is not the at titude of those in control of the great national game in our leagues." Man Who Taught Roosevelt to Box Dies l?ROE MIK£ DONOVAN * Professor Mike Donovan, who taught Theodore Roosevelt and his sons "how to boxNias passed away in his seventy-third year. Mike Dono van more than forty years ago was recognized as the middleweight champion of the United States, the bareknuckle middleweight champion under the London Prize Ring Rules. Jack Wise Is Busy Teaching Aviators' Art of Trapshootin£ Jack Wise, well known to local shooters, is making good at Kelley Field, Texas. Ho is shooting: in structor, and has been drilling the aviators in shooting at movable ob jects. He is a member of the Harris burg and West Fairview Sportsmen's Association. He has been made a corporal and expects promotion to j sergeant in the very near future. In : a recent letter to W. A. Wilson, the j veteran trapshooter, of MarysvlUe, I Corporal Wise tells some interesting ( facts. Extracts from his letter fol-1 low: "Well, I am some busy boy these j days, and they are good hot ones at that. I hardly know how far back to go in telling you my doings, but wilt start with January sth. On that day I was made instructor of tiapshooting at Kelly Field, and since then my time has been entire ly taken up. I have had but one half-day off since X started on the j job, and this afternoon makes the j second.. Instni<< Aviator* "My duties are to instruct the fu ture aviators and those who have received their commissions, along with about thirty majors and as many captains and a few of higher rank, along with hundreds of lieu tenants, the art of trapshooting, It also gave me, during the first month,' come work on the machine gun range, with the gun. I sup pose, if this war ever ends, we will have to get a machine gun and mow i down the rocks in the old Susque- I hanna. ' "I have taught over 600 future! Wilkes-Barre Is Out of Baseball During War Wilkes-Bnrre, Pn., April 1. lf i there is to bo another minor league J i formed in these war-times, Wilkes-' Barre nor Scranton will not be mem bers. Hero it is enphatically stated by local club owners that this town is through with professional league baseball until the war is over. This morning the local York Stato club owners denied that they had made application for a place in the pro posed league of Jack Dunn and John I H. Farrell. The situation in Scranton is the same as here. Owner Robert Allen to-day reassured the baseball world that Scranton will have "no profes sional league baseball this season at least. Scranton fell a few thousand dollars behind last season. Klmtra is not anxious to Join and Owner HARRTSBtfRG TELEGHXP& For many years he was the boxing instructor at the New York Athletic' Club, and there he taught many mil lionaires and their sons how to put up their h,ands. He is almost the last of the bare-knuckle fighters of prominence. In fact, Jack McAuliffe, once lightweight champion is the i only one of his time left. flyers to break seventy per cent, (that is the passing mark) or over of the elusive clays. I think the idea is to give them an idea of shoot ing at a moving target, as all the machine gun work here is at sta tionary targets. The best men of the bunch are picked to RO to aerial gunnery schools, where they get to shoot at moving or towed targets from a machine, and, in fact, every thing as near to the real thing as they An get it. You can see I ha-e no easy task, for they only get from 100 to l. r , ft shots to qualify. .Shoot at Blue Flock * "We have two ideal traps in stalled (and four more on hand) and in-e blue rocks. We have six pegs at each trap, so I can instruct twelve men at a time. Wo have thirty Win chester pump guns, Model 1897. 12 Oa., and use a load of 3Drs. DuPont with ltaoz., 7chilled. I get all the shooting 1 want, and usually shoot about fifty or seventy-five a day. My best run has been fifty four straight, and I think that is good for the gun and the load. The guns are all alike and too thin in the comb for me, so I have to watch myself eve-ry time 1 put it up to shoot. I also had to learn not to overshoot my targets, for all my puns have been made to shoot about twelve inches high. We fire about 2,500 rounds per day, so you can see tii&t I am a pretty tired soldier when 1 come back at 6.30, after being on the no from 7_ a. m. You would be surprised to see how many men l get who have never shot a gun be fore, to teach." Johnson in Binghamton haa issued a statement saying his ball park will be closed to minor leugue ball for the period of the war. There may be a chance for baseball in Syracuse. El mira and Wilkes-Barre have disposed of their players rf&ht and left. Most all of Scranton players are Tree agents, as they all have back salar ies due theni. No Syracuse player.-! have been sold. CLERKS TRAINING HARD Altoona, Pa., April 1. —Clerks and officials of the Pennsylvania Rail road offices here, first to answer the call the Altoona committee of the National Security League, have bo gun to make themselves more phy sically fit, as a wartime measure. Five hundred office men are meet ing once a week, under the direction of the physical directors of the hi ;h school nnd the Y. M. C. A. and are limbering tip their muscles by set ting-up exercises and drills. TROUT ANGLERS AWAITOPENING Season Starting April 15 Gives Promise of Being a Record-Breaker Only two more weeks and the j trout season starts. Local anglers are anxiously awaiting the arrival of April 15. Already there are elab- j orate displays of fishing tackle in the windows of sporting goods stores. Indications are that this year will be productive of good catches. The I weather during the winter was i greatly in favor of the speckled 1 beauties. Old veterans of the game ] predict a better season this year i than has been enjoyed for a number of years. Tho reasons for these predictions are based upon the fact that during the fall the water in the mountain streams was reasonably high, which prevented predatory animals such us coon, skunk, etc., from fishing suc cessfully. Trout Drnlroyrrti These little animals are the best fishers in the world, and they are said to destroy more trout than any other source. When the water is low they get down along the edge of a riffle and reach under the stones and pull the trout out and cat them. With their sharp claws the catching of tho little fish is nn easy matter j while the trout are taking protection , under flat stone. The sudden cold spell early in Do- j cember froze the streams and the 1 continuation of the freezing period during the entire winter afforded ad ditional protection to the trout. The water lias been high since the break ir.g-up period and will naturally con tinue to be high until late in the spring. These conditions have been highly in favor of the trout and it, therefore, is believed that this sea son fishermen will have every oppor tunity to make good catches. Present weather conditions indi cate good roads for the first of the set son and those who go to and from the streams by motorcar will be af forded a better opportunity of "get ting there" than is usually the case. Sensational Shooting Is Big Feature in Cage Game; Independents Win Again Sensational shooting was a big | feature in Saturday night's basket- | ball game. "Nobe" Frank and Eddie | Wallower were the big stars. The Independents won over the Reading Professionals, score, 66 to 28. Frank scored twenty-eight points and Wal lower twenty-two. Reading was not very strong after the first period. The former Eastern League stars started off with a pace j that indicated a victory in their fa vor. Near the close of the first half' the Independents took a brace, went into the lead and was never headed. ! The game was without question one of the most sensational played this season. Snyder was the one big star for Reading. The lineup and sum mary : INDEPENDENTS FG. Fls. Pts. N. F<Trd, f 4 0 8 Wallower, f 11 o 22 Frank, c 4 20 28 G. Ford, g. 4 0 8 Colestock, g 0 0 t) Totals 23 20 C 6 READING FG. Fls. Pts. | Dietrich, f 1 0 2 Snyder, f 0 o 8 ; Buch, c. . * 2 12 16 | Gaul, g 1 o 2 : Fisher, g 0 0 0 ] Totals 8 12 28 i All International Players Declared Free Agents! New York. April I.—The national baseball commission has announced the following ruling on the collapse of tho International League: "The commission rules that] through its (the International Loa-| gue) neglect to reorganize and pro- 1 tect the national agreement rights of its plavers, all rights to reserved players have been forfeited and that all players of its respective clubs are, therefore, free agents and eligi ble to contract with other natidnal agreement clubs, except those draft ed or recalled by major leagues or purchased by minor or major league clubs. "Contracts for 1918 entered Into with other clubs by players of the International League before the pro mulgation of this ruling are declared valid." In explaining its ruling the com mission stated: "As a result of the failure of the International League ta arrange Its circuit and adopt a schedule for 1918 many of the reserved of Its clubs have applied to the commis sion for a ruling relative to their i status. ' "In some instances it is represented that tho respective clubs of jom j plainants are in arrears to players for i 1917 salaries, and in other cases the j reserving clubs hove failed to tender j contracts for the coming season up ! to date. "Investigation establishes that many of the complaints are true. In the meantime players of the Inter national League teams who have re ceived offers fi im other national j ngreements clubs have been unable to accept them." APRIL 1, 1918. Red Sox Purchase Old Dodger Star, Bob Fisher "BOB" FISH'ER Ed. Barrow, manager of the Bos ton Red Sox, is well supplied with second basemen. He has just secur ed Bob Fisher, one-time Brooklyn, Cub and Red inflelder. Johhny Evers v as only recently signed by the club, but evidently Barrow is looking £:hcad in case Evers fails to make good. Fisher can also play short and third. National League to Work by Clock, Says J. K. Tener New York, April 1. —"There will be but little difference in the time of starting the ball games in the Na tional League under the daylight sav ing plan," said President .John K. Tener when told that baseball owners who planned to start games one hour later had been branded as slackers by Charles L. Pack, of the National War Garden Commission. "Mr. Pack is evidently anticipating a condition that will not come abbut," continued Tener. "The time for start ing games is lip to individual club owners, but speaking for the National League, I do not expect there will be more than fifteen minutes' difference. People will not change their dinner hour under the new plan. We could not expect baseball fans to get home to dine at 7 o'clock. We will all work by the clock just as wo have before." OAKLAND CIAJB GETS STUMPF Cincinnati, Ohio, April 1. The I National Commission in a decision 1 handed down awarded Player Wil-I liam Stumpf, to the Oakland Club, 1 of the Pacific Coast League, but made a provision that the Oakland! Club dispose of his services to the, Pittsburgh Club, of the National i League. The Spokane Club of the North-1 western League, claimed StumpfV services and also displayed an agree- j mcnt to sell the player to the Pitts burgh Club. HGRZOn SIGNS CONTRACT Dublin, Ga., April I.—Manager] Stallings, of the Boston Braves, and Charley Herzog, the former captain of the Giants, have come to terms. Both the Boston Braves and the New 1 Yolk Yankees arrived here for the llrst game of their pre-season series, which will be played to-day. Ed. Konetchy, the big first baseman or the Braves teaip, who is in charge of tiie clan, was the authority for the statement that Herzog will sign up. MEN'S MEETING HEARS Ult. HEED'S ADDItESS Dr. George Edward Reed addressed the men's Sunday mass meeting in Fahnestock Hall yesterday afternoon under the auspices of the Central Y. M. C. A. His subject was "Play ing the Game." Dr. Reed was form er president of Dickinson College, and also, former state librarian. Dr. J. George Becht, executive sec. rctary of the State Board of Edu cation will address next Sunday's meeting on the subject, "Over There." Music will be given by tho Studio Quartet, a well-known musicaloo r ganization. - REDUCE CHURCH DEBT Members of Messiah Lutheran Church celebrated Easter in a novel way yesterday, when $10,217.59 was contributed through free will offer ings. to decrease the indebtedness of the church. The totul cash offering of t.ho day was $10,162.12. Eighty seven new members were admitted to membership in tho church. f riADIATOI! ' FENDER-LAMP BODY REPAIRING OF ALL.KINDS SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Auto Radiator Co. Formerly with Nuss Mfg. Co. 125 S. CAM F.RON ST. BELL 419 X DIAL 4151 fWBLLYLT i ™ CORiNER- President J. H. Farrell la not being rushed with applicants for his new league. There are a lot of towns that would like to get Into the gnme, but after figuring tho cost dropped the proposition. Baseball that will pay must bo good sport. Material for a class AA league is scarce. The next team shoot between llar rlsburg and Pennsylvania railroad trapshooters will be held on tho Phil adelphia Division Gun Club field, probably April 13, until that time special efforts will be made to assure a. larger railroad representation. Soldiers at the aviation depot at Middlctown have organized for the baseball season. There will he sev eral teams in the Hold. A diamond and field has been laid out and games will start next week. The boys need baseballs, bats and other equipment. Givo them a boost. Increased baseball activity is look ed for this week among local teams. On Saturday the sandlots wero oc cupied and twilight practice is now in order in preparation for an early start. Dickinson is ready to begin the spring work. A first string nine lias been picked, tlie trackmen are put ting in long hours of practice and MARCH OUTPUT IS 36 U. S. SHIPS Fleet Corporation Launch- i ings at Rate of 3,000,000 Tons a Year Washington, April 1. —Figures made public by the Shipping Board indicate a greatly increased ratio of ship launchings and ship comple tions. In all thirty-six vessels of all types were launched in March, with 1 a total deadweight tonnage of 232,-J 786. If this monthly rate is main tained—and officials of the Shipping] Board says it will be greatly exceed- < ed—the year's construction will be! around 3,000,000 tons deadweight. Incomplete figures show that eigh teen vessels of 162,200 total tonnage were turned over ready for opera tion. With two exceptions these were vessels being built on private orders and commandeered. De livery of two additional vessels was expected soon. Launchings in March were con siderably more than twice those of February and not quite twice those of January. January launchings were sixteen ships of 112,500 tons, and those for February fifteen ships of 77,950 tons. Of the thirty-six vessels launched in March six were contracted for by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, with a tonnage of 51,650; thenty-ono were requisitioned vessels of 149,- 636 tons, and nine wero wood and composite vessels of 31,500 tons. Tho March launchings were 52,- 000 tons in excess of those predicted tho first month by the Shipping Board. Officials are not optimistic as to a higher rate of production in April, however. Shortage of steel and lack of other materials have seriously hampered the building pro gram. PAY MORE FOR GAS Residents of Lykens and Williams town will pay fifty cents for gas, effective to-day. Tariffs filed by the Williainstown Gas Company with the Public Service Commission show the increase in rates to be from thirty to fifty cents. Quality will always be patronized while cheap goods are dear at any price KING OSCAR CIGARS have for years enjoyed the reputation of being a quality proposition. In re turn for this confidence, the public ex pects and receives the same regularity year in and year out. The result is that all concerned are satisfied. John C. Herman & Co. . MAKERS .j $ the formal opening comes next Sat urday when the nine meets Albright College here and the trackmen go against the Carlisle Indians in a dual meet. • No other sport Offers so many and so valuable rewards fo.r skill as does trapshooting. And in no other sport can the novice so quickly rise ,to fame. Trophies, medals, prices, etc., donated by those interested in tha sport, are within easy reach of the shooter who applies himself to the mastering of the principles of trap shooting. Ample opportunities are given by local, county and state shoots for tho contestant to become known. As ho acquires proliciency and gains in confidence, the trapshooter may look forward to the time when he may bring himself and his club the honor of winning the state cham pionship, or sweeping the field in tho Grand American Handicap. Sammy Schiff, a local boxer, is no slacker. Ho is employed at the en ginehouso No. 1, Pennsylvania rail road and works twelve hours each day. Five nights out of six he can be seen at tho Peerless Club gymna sium, training hard. "Sammr like? the ring game and is anxious to maka good. In his bout with Jack McCar ron last week, this boy showed a big improvement in his work. Sunday School Sessions Open in Middletown A conference and convention at Middletown in the Methodist Church this afternoon opened the series of district conventions being held by the Dauphin County Sabbath School Association. The convention wij continue at Middletown to-night. The theme of the various gatherings is "Efficiency." The week's sched ule follows: District No. 2, Monday, April 1, Middletown, Methodist Episcopal Church; conference 2 p. m.;.conven tion at 7.30 p. m. District No. 4, Tuesday, April 2, Oberlin, Neidifj United Brethren Church; conference 2 p. m.; convention, 7.45 p. m. Dis trict No. 7, Wednesday, April a, Linglestown, Union Chapel; confer ence, 2 p. m.; convention, 7.30 p. m. District No. C, Thursday, April 4, Steeiton, Centenary United Brethren Church; conference, 2 p. in.; con vention, 7.45 p. ni. District, No. 3, Friday, April 5, Hummelstown, Zion Lutheran Parish Church; con ference, 2 p. m.; convention, 7.45 p. m. District No. 9, Saturday, April fi. Dauphin, Methodist Episcopal Church; conference, 2 p. m.; conven tion, 7.45 p. m. District No .1, Sun day, April 7, Swatara Hill Meeting House; 2 p. m., Bachmansvillo Meet ing House; 7.15 p. m., Hillsdale United Brethren Church. Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator—Ad. I RAZOR BLADES SHARPENED Single edge 250 doz. Double edge Ssc dov- CM stylo 250 ea. I.cavo Orders At Gorgas' Drug Store i 10 N. 3rd St. I'enna. Station 11
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