PENNSY CAGE CHAMPIONSHIP TO BE DECIDED IN THIS CITY SATURDAY, APRIL 27 WEST END WILL HAVE STAR TEAM; OPENING MAY 4 Many Stars in Army; New Men Have oGod Records; Patriotic Start .One rousing baseball opening is planned by Charles J. Householder, 0 manager of the West End A. A. C., '"on May 4. On this date the attrac tion will be the Middletown Avia tors. It is to bo a Red Cross benefit and patriotic event. West End fin ished last season as Dauphin county , champions. This aggregation has a reputa tion for clean sportsmanship. This year the same popular policy will be carried out. Grounds will be located at Fourth and Seneca streets. There will be increased seating capacity and the best attractions possible will be secured. Sew Faces in Lineup The lineup this year will not in clude a numbfer of stars who have been factors in making the game popular, but there will be a goodly lineup. Scotty Knight is now in France, "Lefty" Challenger, a star southpaw who left here with the Governor Troop and is now located at an instruction school; Beam, the . hard-hitting rightfielder, is located at "one of the government canton ments serving as a sergeant, and i Hen Kline, the sensational backstop of last year's champions, enlisted at New York and is somewhere in j France. Players who will be seen j this season include: Season's Lineup Killinger, formerly of the Rose- ! wood club, a hustling and hard- J working player, will probably do the I hulk of the catching, while Hippen- I steel will be an able assistant. The ! latter saw service with the Harris- ! burg State League club. The pitch- ] ing will be handled by "Snowball" ' Winters, who has been connected I with the West End club as their : mainstay on the mound since the ; organization of the club. Along with , him the following pitchers are avail- j able: "Lefty" Alcorn, Earl Walz. the only twirler tcr defeat West End after reorganizing last year: "South paw" Landis, of Ilighspire Central Pennsylvania League team; "Bud" Lingle, a Technical High school star, and probably "Cy" Davis, of j the Dauphin-Perry Leastue. First base will In all probability | be taken care of by Jimmy Russell, | 'lie hard-hitting first baseman of last year's winners: second base, Harry Bell, the captain of last year's club; at his old stand at shortstop will be found one of the best players outside of the select class. Bill ' Euker. a former Mount St. Mary's j t'ollege star. Third base will be \ tilled by either Kline, of last year's j team, or Wrightstone. formerly of the N>- :unberland Central Penn- j syh -iiia League. This boy is well Jvimwji. for his clouting. In the out tifld, Embiek, formerly captain of th> Xew Cumberland champions: j ✓-."Tim" Euker, a brother of "Bill"! mid a fast base runner, along with I McKeever, known as the fly ball death trap, and Anderson, of locar fame. Walter Smith will most like ly be used as utility player, he being an all-around player of no mean standing. STECHER THROWS HUSSANE Boston, April 19. 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Totals 534 553 567—1644 LINGLESTOWN Basehore 122 106 118— 346 | George 83 129 94 306 Bali 150 92 128— 370 j Gastrock 144 149 122 412 j Good 88 90 109— 287 [ Totals 587 566 571—1721 Scores of Yesterday's Games Xutional League Phillies-Boston— Game postponed on account of wet grounds. Brooklyn-New York—Game post poned on account of rain. R. H.*E. Chicago 0 0320100 o—6 10 0 j St. Louis 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2—4 9 1 I Batteries—Vaughn and Killlfer; ] Howard, May, Doak and Snyder. R. H. E. Pittsburgh .. ..0 0200 20 2 o—6 6 2 Cincinnati .. ..10000 020 4—7 10 1 Batteries—Miller and Schmidt; Bressler and Wingo. American I.ensue Athletics-Boston—Game postponed on account of rain. | New York-Washington—Game post- I poned on account of rain. R. H. E. j St. Louis noooooooo—o 4 1 ! Chicago 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 Ox—s 11 0 Batteries—Shocker and Nunamak er; Williams and Schalk. ! R. H. E. ; Detroit 00200000 o—2 6 1 1 ! Cleveland 0 0000150 x—6 12 1 Batteries —Boland and Stanage; ' Covaleskle and O'Neill. ST. MARY'S C, C. SCHEDULE Manager Zerwee, of the St. Mary's C. C., has arranged for a series of good games. To-morrow this team will play Middletown A. C. on the Middletown Fair Grounds diamond. Saturday, April 27, calls for a con test with the Mercersburg Academy on the Mercersburg grounds. While Sunday, April 28, will bring with it a game with the players of the Mid- I dletown Aviators on the Middletown field. She Wants to Be a Shooting Instructor in Uncle Sam's Army' ANNIK OAK LET Women's amateur trapslfbotlng i champion, who resides in Detroit, Mich., has asked the War Depart ment to find her a place as an In structor In the use of the shotgun. She is capable as her record shows and she wishes to be a real help to her country. Annie Oakley has also offered her services to the War De- j partment. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH PENNSV TEAMS TIE UP SERIES Altoona to Play Game With the General Office Tossers in This City The basketball championship of the Pennsylvania railroad system will be decided in this city Saturday, April 27, when the Altoona tossers will meet the General Office team of Philadelphia on the Motive Pow er Athletic Association floor. The Quakers tied up with the Mountaineers yesterday at Philadel phia. Two field goals tossed by Panzulla in the last few minutes of play enabled General Office to win the second game in the series by a score of 24 to 22. As Altoona won the first game in Altoona last Fri day by 49 to 26, a third game is nec essary to decide the championship. General Office won the champion ship of the eastern section of the Pennsylvania railroad, and Altoona the western end, and the present se ries is to determine the titleholders of the railroad for the season. Disqualify Iluldt When the teams were walking off the floor to their dresslngrooms. Boldt, one of the Altoona forwards, hit Referee Strausser on the jaw, but before any further trouble occurred he was hustled off to his dressing room. The officials of the league then and there disqualified Boldt from further participation in the se ries. This will greatly weaken Al toona in the third game, for Boldt was one of the team's best players. The game was hotly contested from the start and until Panzulla came through with his two goals at the psychological moment the locals' chances to carry the series to a third game looked decidedly slight. During most of the first half Gen eral Office led and had a two-point lead when the half terminated by a 9 to 7 score. In the final twenty minutes Al toona forged ahead on field tosses by Gibbons and Gerdes, held a two point lead until five minutes of the end, when Panzulla, being substituted for the veteran Charley Heite, tossed in the two goals which saved the day and game for General Office. General Office. Altoona. Heite. f. Boldt, f. (Panzulla) Wildermier, f. Gerdes. f. Coghlan, c. Carrol, c. Miller, g. Gibbons, g. Hopkins, g. Keller, g. Goals From Field—Panzulla. 2; Miller, 2; Wildermier. Coghlan, Hop kins, Gibbons, 3; Boldt, 2; Gerdes, 2. Goals From Fouls —Wildermier, 4; Gerdes, 5; Boldt, Carrol, Keller. Heite, 2; Panzulla, 2; Miller, Hopkins, Referee, Strausser. Time, 20 min utes. Spring Training Figures Favor American League Judging by the results of the pre season exhibition games between teams of the two major leagues, the younger organization is a bit strong er, or else the players were slightly more advanced in their training. Of 55 games played, the Ameri can League clubs won 33 and lost 18, while 4 were tied. The clu'is also scored 271 runs to 181 for !hu National League clubs, made 531 hits to 421 and made 94 errors to 113 for the other organization. Over a stretch of three years, however, the two leagues are about on a par, although the American League has a slight advantage, as the following table shows: W. L. Tied.r.C. American League ..66 61 5 .520 National League ..61 66 5 .480 101,000 Pay to Witness Opening Day Contests in Seven Big League Cities The "war" season opening day games were far from failures. Seven major league cities raised the curtain on big league base ball for the season of 1918, and from the outpouring of fans there Is no reason for the promoters to feel alarmed. In the seven cities nearly one hundred thousand fans passed through the turnstiles, with New York, as usual, turning out the record crowd. Twenty-five thou sand are reported to have wit nessed the initial claoh between the Dodgers and Giants at the Polo Grounds. Twenty thousand witnessed the first two opening day games in the American League on Monday and eighteen thousand saw yesterday'* skirmish between the White Sox and Browns in Chicago. As rain prevented the Tigers-Indian game in Cleveland, the American Lea gue figures were cut down. The attendance records from major league cities where open ing games wei*e played follow: American U>aguc (Monday) At Boston 7,500 At Washington 13,000 (Tuesday) At Chicago 18,000 At Cleveland (Rain). National ljcaguc (Tuesday) At Philadelphia 9,000 At New York 25.000 At St. Louis 10,000 At Cincinnati 18,500 Total