BETHLEHEM STEEL LEAGUE MANAGERS PICK COCKILL'S CREW AS PACEMAKERS
SCRANTON SHOT
WINS BIG MONEY;
LIVE BIRD EVENT
Ml. Carmel Champion With
Friends Go Home With
Empty Pockets
Scranton, April 23. —Dan Kessler
of Mt. Carmel, went home defeated
"•and his supporters financially em
barrassed, as a result of the live
bird match between Kessler and
Ernest Mayer, of West Scranton, at
Athletic Park. Th£ local champion
came out with the high score 22 to
21. Each man shot at twenty-five
birds.
In winning, Mayer won a side bet
of S4OO and the gate receipts above
expenses, while his supporters
cleaned up several thousand dollars
in wagers. More could have been
won by the Scranton sports had they
had as much coin with them, as the
Mt. Carmel delegation. As it was
Kessler appeared to have the most
supporters with money to wager and
consequently all Scranton bettors
were accommodated. And for the
Name reason the Kessler element
went home minus every cent they
could wager on the outcome of the
engagement.
Kessler had a chance to tie and
win the match on his 24th and 25th
birds only io fall down, lie killed
the 24th, but it flew out of bounds
before dying, and consequently
counted as a miss. The 25th bird
•was a clean miss. vMayer's finish
was just the reverse of that staged
by his opponent. Ernest killed his
last thirteen birds. This repre
sented his best man of the afternoon,
three less than established by Kess
ler, who killed sixteen straight, only
to fall down oil the last two.
Mayer missed the first bird and
then killed nine straight On the
11th and 12tli birds he missed. He
then killed the remaining pigeons.
Kessler killed the first, missed the
second and then killed five straight.
He missed on the Bth. He then shot
16 straight. According to the agree
ment, Mayer had to leave a forfeit
of SSO posted as a guarantee of giv
ing his apponent a return match.
This will probably be pulled off at
Hazleton or Mt. Carmel. Over 1500
spectators saw Saturday's contest.
The detailed score:
Mayer—
-01111-11111-00111-11111-11111—22
Kessler—
-10111-11011-11111.11111-11100—21
State Auto Receipts
Bigger For First Four
Months Than AH 1917
Motor vehicle license receipts in
Pennsylvania for 3918 ran $5,000
ahead of the total receipts for the
entire year of 1917 at the close of
business on April 22, when thev
amounted to $3,273,444. For the en
tire year of 1917 these funds amount
ed to $3,268,025.50, showing an in
crease this year of $5,418.50.
4 WELLY ir
9 W CORNER,
Managers in the Bethlehem Btosl
Corporation League have a reason
to fear George Cockill. lie
ting an aggregation of baseball play
ers who are going to set a pace dif-j
ficult to follow. Steelton never gets
into sport unless it is to succeed. 1
They do things right dqwn there and j
it means something attractive in j
baseball. Harrisburg fans will look]
to Steelton for their sport and they j
will not be disappointed.
iaome years ago Steelton had aj
football team that was a world beat-,
cr. There were many college stars in j
the lineup, including George Cockill.
It was run, on the same plans thati
the baseball game is being operated,
and Harrisburg patrons crowded the
Steelton field every game. They will
lie in evidence on Saturdays and holi
days after the league baseball sea
son starts.
Harrisburg shooters are anxiously
awaiting tbe announcement regard
ing that 1,000 target race. There are
many shots who would like to got
into a contest with J. G. Martin and
M. B. Stewart. There has been some
talk about a Red Cross benefit. The
opinion prevails that it would be
profitable to start the benefit fund
I
Itis your duty not only to buy Third
Liberty Loan Bonds, but to consider
yourself an agent of the government to
help persuade others to buy them.
| John C. Herman & Co.
Makers of King Oscar Cigars
Don't Forget W. S. S.
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TUESDAY EVENING,
SNOODLES —Kid Addison Is Certainly a Brow Beaten Individual.
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TIES RECORD OF
SAM CRAWFORD
Eddie Collins Reaches Consec
utive Game Figures; Iron
Man if He Plays Today
Chicago April 23.—8y playing in
yesterday's game, won easily by De
troit from the White Sox 7 to 8,
Eddie Collins tied the major league
record made by Sam Crawford of
Detroit, for number of consecutive
games played. Collins has played in
472 games without a miss, starting
in 1914 witt the Athletics, when he
played the last three games of the
season. He has not missed a game
since. Crawford played 153 games
with Detroit in 1913, 157 in 1914,
156 in 1915 and the first six games
in 1916.
Iron Man Today
If he plays to-day Collins will be
the "iron man" of baseball. His
record made in reaching this goal
follows:
Year Games Batting Fielding
1914 3 .286 1.000
1915 15-5 .325 .974
1916 155 .308 .976
1917 156 .289 .971
1918 3 .250 1.000
Totals .. 472 .308 .974
Sam Crawford's record, which
Collins has now equalled and is sure
to pass, follows:
Year Games Batting Fielding
1913 153 .316 .01
1914 157 .314 .977
1915 156 .299 .974
1916 6 .273 1.000
Totals ... 472 .309 .977
Detroit took full advantage of
Chicago's erratic fielding to-day,
while James, although wild at times,
kept Chicago's hits scattered.
by charging an admission to a 1,000
target shooting event. "Billy" Cleek
ner, secretary of the Harrisburg
Shooting Association is thinking over
a plan.
Now that Eddie Collins has reach
ed Sam Crawford's record, and is
going far ahead of it, it is probable
that no one will ever equal his fig
ures. When Collins retires he will
hold records in other branches of
baseball that will stand in history
a long time before they are bettered.
Willard and Fulton are going to
meet in a ten-round battle. There
may be a knockout and there may
not. Xow that it is settled that the
Red Cross will be benefited and that
there will be a good sale of Liberty
Bonds through the fight, let it go. .
Black and Brown are good men
in bowling match. Central Iron an
Bethlehem bowlers met last night.
Brown was high man. beating out
Black, a local star who has been
pulling off records all season.
Bud Fry, the Newport star catcher
and one boy who knows the game,
has been signed by Hagerstown for
Blue Ridge League \work. Fry will
make good. He Is a heady player.
MANAGERS FEAR
COCKILL'S TEAM
Pick Steelton Aggregation to
Set Pace in Steel
League
"Watch that Steelton Team," is
the slogan in the Bethlehem League
circuit. All managers appear to be;
scared about George CockilUs team.,
The general opinion prevails that!
"Foxy" George has pulled one over ,
on other leaders by making Steel-1
ton a farm for major league recruits. I
The fact that all players hold posi- j
tions with the Steel Company will I
prevent any interference on the claim j
that the steel organization will V'ei
an outlaw league. Here is what the ;
Bethlehem Globe says:
"When the Steelton club of tlie ;
Bethlehem Steel Company League j
comes to this city to play, many ball!
players well known locally will ap-,
pear in their lineup. The team is
managed by George Cockill, a vet-1
eran of the diamond who has served!
in practically every capacity con-!
nected with the game of ball.
Cockill Has *'Rop"
Besides being a big league player,
George has officiated as an umpire,
lias run a club of his own, man
aged a club in New York State and
Tri-State Leagues and has coached
baseball at Bucknpll, from -U-here he
was graduated.
"George, has left nothing undone
to secure players of the best for the I
Steelton club and a glance at the
lineup to represent that team this
season, will show that he has not
overlooked any. Cockill has most of
his men signed with the exception of
one or two.
"It is rumored that he had started
negotiations with Eddie Plank, the
veteran big leaguer, who has not yet
signed his contract with the Yan
kees, and also Pitcher Jack Northup,
of big league fame. While his team
is all but compl&te, a Harrisburg pa
per states that George is also expect
ing the arrival of a big league out
fielder."
Baseball Summary;
Where They Play Today
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
National 1/eaguc
Philadelphia, 3: Brooklyn, 0.
Cincinnati, 3; Chicago, 2.
New York, 4; Boston. 2.
Pittsburgh, 5; St. Louis, 1.
American Lcaeiie
Philadelphia. 5: Washington, 1.
New York, 11; Boston. 4.
Detroit, 7; Chicago, 3.
Cleveland, 8; St. Louis, 1.
TO-DAY'S GAMES
National league
Brooklyn at Philadelphia.
Boston at New York.
Chicago at Cincinnati.
American Leajnie
Philadelphia at Washington,
New York at Boston.
Detroit at Chicago.
St. Louis at Cleveland.
STANDING OF THE TEAMS
National League
W. L. Pet.
New York 5 0 1.000
Philadelphia 4 i ,800
Cincinnati 3 2 !<ioo
Pittsburgh 2 2 .300
Chicago 2 2 .5001
St. Louis 1 2 .333
Boston 1 4 200
Brooklyn 0 5 !000
American League
„ , W. L. Pet.
Boston f, i .857
Cleveland 3 1 .750
Detroit 1 1 '.500
New York 5 4 .429
Washington 2 3 '4OO
St. Louis 2 3 .400'
Chicago 1 2 .333]
Philadelphia 1 4 .2001
Lieut. Johnston, Hurt
on Aviation Field, Is
on Road to Recovery
First Lieutenant Donald Johnston,
of the United States Aviation Serv
ice, brother of Paul and Walter
Johnston, of the Johnston Paper
Company, who was badly injured by
a fall at Hick's Field, Fort Worth,
Texas, last week, will recover. This
word was brought to Harrisburg to
day by Paul Johnston, who returned
from a visit to the hospital where
his brother is being treated.
Lieutenant Johnston, who is an in
structor, was assigned to Hich's Field
some time ago, where a large num
ber of cadets are in training. While
aloft in a dual control machine,
which may be driven either 'by the
cadet or his instructor, something
went wrong and the plane fell be
tween 400 and Gno feet, injuring both
occupants. Neither can tell just how
the accident occurred. Lieutenant
Johnston was unconscious as the re
sult of concussion of the brain for
three days wljen his brother was
summoned and for a time was
thought to have been fßtally injured.
He is now on the road to recovery,
however.
HXRBISBURG TELEGRAPH
Sammees Play Ten Games
on Paris Baseball Fields
Paris. April 23. —Ten games pre
liminary to the regular season of the
Paris baseball league were played
I yesterday afternoon' on various
grounds around Paris. The results
were:
Ordnance department, 8; Engi
neers' Purchasing Offlftice, 7.
Naval Aviatjon, 18; Alexandre
j Casuals, 1.
Canadian Hospital, 6; American
, Hospital No. 1. 4.
Medical Repair Shop, 14; S. S. U.
I No. 650, 4.
Naval-Aviation Marines, 12; Bed
I Cross No. 3, 0.
Thirty-fifth Engineers, 14; Hotel
' Pavilion Y. M. C. A., 6.
Military Police, 7; S. S. U. No.
GO9, 5.
Aviation Headquarters. 15; Re
search and Inspection. 11.
First Motor Mechanics, 26; Signal
i Disbursement Office. 0.
Searchlight Department, 7; Avia
' tion Technical, 6.
Last Night's Ring Battles
By Associated Press
Toledo, Ohio. —Jack Blackburn, of
Philadelphia outpiointed Willie L&ng
ford. of Buffalo, in every round of a
12-round bout. The men are negro
mi^dleweights.
Baltimore.— Haltimore Dundee won
the referee's decision over Jimmy
Pappas, of Atlanta; Kid Norfolk Aon
the decision over Bill Tate, of Cali
fornia, and the Joe Burman, of Chi
cago, vs. Young Ch*ney, of Balti
more, bout ended with a draw.
Philadelphia—Johnny Tillman, of
Minneapolis, had a shade the better
of his six-round bout with Johnny
Griffith, Akron, Ohio. The men are
lightweights.
New Haven, Conn, -w- "Chick"
Brown, of New Haven, won a ref
eree's decision over Eddie Wallace,
of Brooklyn, N. Y., at the end of
their 15-round bout. They fought at
catch weights.
BRITISH SEND OLD
CRUISERS TO BOTTOM
[Continued l'roni First Page.]
the number engaged. An enemy de
stroyer was torpedoed at Zeebrugge.
The ports of Ostend and Zee
brugge, on the Belgian coast, are the
principal bases for the operations of
the submarines in their campaign
against shipping in the North sea
and English channel. They are of
great importance to the Germans for
this purpose, and it has been recogT
nized by the Allies that to deprive
the enemy of them would be one of
the most effective means of dealing
with the submarine.
An attack on these porta by the I
British fleet has been urged, but the :
British naval authorities apparently s
regard the land defenses as too:
strong to make this practicable.
Various measures have been adopted
to destroy German submarine's on en
tering or leaving these ports. Field
Marshal Halg's offensive In Flanders
last summer was generally believed
to have as one of its main objec
tives the bending back of the Ger
man northern tlank so as to deprive
the enemy of these two points.
Part of L'ia n
Washington, April 23.—News of
the BUtish raid upon the German
submarine bases at Ostend and Zee
brugge and of the attempt to bottle
up those harbors was received with
great interest at the Navy Depart
ment. The move was taken as an
other definite step in the carefully
planned campaign against the Ü
boats which, it has been repeatedly
predicted, would begin to show ma
terial results about this time.
The recent raid of the British
grand fleet into the Cattegat when
ten German trawlers were sunk was
said to have been another of the
steps to provent the egress of the
< submarines.
It has long ben established that
the principal bases of submarines
which operate in those waters around
the British Isles are in the captured
Belgian portg. The wharves, work
i sljops and basihs of those harbors
frequently have been bombed by
allied airmen.
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FOR SALE BY DIVES, POMEROY
& STEWART
Twenty-five Clubs Seek
New Jersey Ring Licenses
Atlantic City, April .23.—The State
Boxing Commission met in Trenton
yesterday to put the finishing touches
on the rules to govern the sport in
New Jersey under the Hurley bill.
The Commissioners will then be
ready to consider applications for li
censes.
Chairman John S. Smith, of Atlan
tic City, declares that there will
probably be between twenty and
twenty-five clubs operating in the
state.
The Commission to-da.v granted a
permit to the city of Newark Tor pro
fessional bouts in connection with
Entire Output of Bull Durham
Called to the Colors*!
M4Sf*'*W- %WV **%&*■
THE Government has requested the entire output of the* m
"makings/'—"BULL" DURHAM tobacco. Our fighting
men need it and we give it gladly.
Only absolute necessities —men, money, munitions, wheat,
ships, and now the "makings," have been called.
One million six hundred thousand men are ready, and
millions more to come. Unlimited billions in coin, and billions
waiting. The entire output of all our munition factories, all
our wheat; etfery ship we can justly lay our hands on—and,
now, tobacco —the "makings"—36,ooo,ooo sacks, 2,000,000
pounds, one hundred carloads every month —the utmost night
and day production of all the "BULL" DURHAM factories.
Every "BULL" DURHAM smoker in the land must
appreciate this call. It will come especially hard to the millions
oi men who have "rolled their own" with "Bull" for years,
who have, indeed, known no other tobacco, and who look upon
the little muslin sack as a close and very personal possession.
But even these men, every one of them, I know, will be glad
to give fully and wholly his share of a product, those who
know say is needed by our boys over there —is necessary to
their morale, their comfort, their will to win.
In_ turning over to the Government our entire output of
Tobacco Company has
but they are, its factories cannot
and the call from the front.
choice with us or with you.
The are our war needs —our
bullets, wheat and ships, and
now carry to our fighters ammuni
tion and hope—ammunition tied up
a with a round paper tag.
united land who will say:
Take to - the boys over there
more."
I not among the thousands
who millions who must, for the
present, give it
President
THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY
NEW YORK
the big entertainment next Saturday !
night for the soldiers at Camp Dix. |
The featureful program will be j
staged at the Veledrome, and about j
3,0#0 men from the cantonment are j
to be the guests of the city.
Camden will have a big fight club. I
There is to be another at Trenton. 1
Atlantic City will have one of the 1
biggest in New Jersey, according to i
present plans.
Two applications came from Long!
Branch, two from Middlesex, several
from Essex and all the large cities in
the state are bolstering up support
for a club.
The Boxing Commission has put its
foot down hard on the practice of 1
conducting bouts at smokers and !
benefits for which no license has been I
granted. It is understood also that
'APRIL 23. I^lß.
I the Commissioners expect to suspend
I pugilists who compete in such un
j sanctioned bouts.
California Sprinter May
Smash Quarter-Mile Record
Rrdlands. Cal., April 23.—California
i has come to the fore with another
i athletic phenomenon, and bis name is
Colin Kilby—euphonious, alliterative
Colin Kilby. Colin is a youth of 19,
yet he already has done forty-nine
I seconds for the 440-yard run. and is
j said to have the" world's record at
I his mercy. In the recent California
; Conference championships Kilby per
I formed his forty-nine seconds feat
I and broke all Pacific coast IntercoH
| iegiate records at one smash,
i Ivilby represents the University of
Redlands and is only a freshman. H*>
i is a big, strong, rangy lad. and not
only can run the quarter, but is a
hurdler of note. year he was
the leading star of the Coalinga High
School team, which won the Califor
nia interscholastlc title. Coach Cun-<
ningham, of Redlands, says that in
Kilby he has right now the best
quarter-miler in the country and tha
coming world's recordholder. If Kil
by is handled right, there is every
reason to believe that he will give
the mark a real battle; but it he Is
mishandled, experts say, he will grow
worse instead of better.
Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. A civ,
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