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. Joe Stecher
threw Hussane, the Balkan wrestler,
after one hour and thirty-three min
utes of hard wrestling last night.l
Hussane put up a wonderful defen-j
sive exhibition but finally Stecher
got him on his leg-scissors hold and I
the match was over.
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i fiOWLING
On the Meixell alleys, Linglestown,
Wednesday, the Linglestown rollers
won three games from the New
Cumberland bowlers in a match con
test. The Lingiestowners wfan the
match with a margin of sevepty-sev
en pins. The scores:
NEW CUMBERLAND
Dugan 120 97 99 316
j Crow . 108 130 111— 349
Rigling 93 86 91— 270
I Bowers 113 us 127 370
j Bricker 98 112 139 339
! 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 <IOI.OOO
Where College Baseball
Teams Play Tomorrow
Games on the intercolleginte
schedule to-morrow will be as fol
lows:
Middletown,' Conn., Wesleyan vs.
Stevens Institute.
Philadelphia, University of Penn
sylvania vs. Lehigh.
Annapolis, Navy vs. Georgetown.
Providence, R. 1., Brown vs. R. 1.
College.
West Point, Army vs. Tufts.
Collegeville, Pa., Ursinus vs. Al
bright.
Baltimore, Md., Johns Hopkins vs.
HaverfoYd.
Carlisle, Pa., Carlisle Indians vs.
Gettysburg.
Washington, D. C., Catholic Uni
versity vs. Mt. St. Marys.
New York, Columbia vs. Cornell.]
W r illiamstown, Mass., 'Williams vs.
Hamilton.
Boston, Newport vs. Boston Col
lege.
Amherst, Mass., Rensselaer vs.
Amherst.
New Haven, Yale vs. Dartmouth.
New Brunswick, N. Y., Lafayette
vs. Rutgers.
New York, N. Y. University vs.
Union.
Troy, N. Y., Rensselaer P. 1., vs. St.
Lawrence.
Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator—Ad.
THE TURKISH CIGARETTE
ACADEMY TEAM
READY FOR START
First Game With Aero Squad
ron Tomorrow Afternoon
on Academy Grounds
The Academy baseball crtw had
its first tryout to-day when the nine
mot a team chosen.from the students
of Tech High school. The Academy
team has not been definitely chosen
yet and to-day's game will give the
candidates a chance to show their
ability under fire. ,
Esquerro or Stone will probably do
the pitching and England will stand
behind the bat. The infield may con
sist of Loudermilch, first base; Stew
art, second; MacDougal, shortstop,
and Newlin on the third sack. In the
outfield will be Blocker, Kendry and
Hawkins. None of the candidates can
be sure of their positions as only a
few practices have been held.
Game To-morrow
To-morrow the Academy will meet
the Middletown Aero Squadron nine
on the Academy diamond. The game
is scheduled for 2.30. The Academy
is showing interest in its representa
tives and will probably turn out in a
body. Though the Riverside boys
hav.e just began their season, some
are experienced players and have
kept in condition during the winter.
APRIL 19, 1918
fWELLYLT •
w CORjNBR^
j Cy Rodgers, one of the greatest j
i college ballplayers history has, is I
[ now in politics. This former W. and \
j J. star is the Republican candidate
I for the Legislature from Washing
| ton county. He always was a leader.
A report from Steelton says 'Buck'j
• Ramsey has been signed by Manager:
, George Cockill. This veteran player!
: served notice some time ago that hej
| ivouPd not be out of baseball long. I
i However, his ambition is to be a!
manager. There is a lot of "pep"
: in "Buck".and he promises to shine;
I another season.
Looking back over baseball history'
rthe announcement that "Buck" I
( Ramsey would play with Steelton•
| comes as a big surprise to Harris
burg fans. However, there is .no!
! good in losing the services of a star
| just because he fought for his rights, i
| Steclton's team will be strengthened!
i with this veteran of many seasons in!
j the lineup.
| You must hand it to Charleyi
"Buck" Herssog. He has liis fauUs
I but he is not goint; to permit any!
I manager to overlook certain clauses'
in a contract. Before he put on a
uniform this week lie made McGraw
come across with everything his con
tract with New York called for.
Fight fans all over the United
States have started a protest on tlve
Wlllard-Fulton fight. They all wan:
to see these battlers get together, bat
not in a t<?n-round contest. That is
all it could be if held at St. Paul.
Furthermore, there should be no
ring contest on July 4, is the general
belief.
In trying to force the public to see
a ten-round light between Jess Wil
lard and Colonel J. C. Miller, the
latter is evidently of the same mind
as his predecessor in the circus busi
ness, the late P. T. llnrnum, who
said, "The American people like lo
be humbugged."
KIKCKHKI'KK IS IX I,KM)
OilhMgOi April 19.—Augio Kieck
hefer, world's three cushion billiard
champion, gained a two-point lead
last night in his 10-poisnt champion
ship match with Pierre Maupame, of
Cleveland, taking the second block
of fifty, 50 to 47, in seventy innings.
The score for the match now stands
99 to 97 in favor of the champion.
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